Watch Video: RIM’s founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis Apologizes for Massive Blackberry Outage

The massive BlackBerry over the past few days has finally been resolved according to RIM founder Mike Lazaridis. RIM held a news conference and Lazaridis just said “we have restored full services.” That’s said to be the status globally, so go ahead, spend a few minutes and get that BBM backlog out of your system. You deserve it. If you’re still not receiving messages, RIM suggests pulling your battery and rebooting the phone. And those RIM folks probably need some sleep… “nobody’s gone home since Monday,” following “the largest outage we’ve ever experienced.”

Earlier today, RIM founder Mike Lazaridis had decided to issue a public apology for this week’s global outage. In a video address linked below, Lazaridis acknowledged that RIM dropped the ball this week, but assured that his company is working hard to remedy the situation. “I apologize for the service outages this week,” Lazaridis said. “We’ve let many of you down.”

The outage is said to have been caused by a core switch failure in their network.
Wall Street reports RIM stock is down 3 percent today, while it’s competitor’s stock Apple and Google rose.

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