Blackberry Users Beset By Second Outage In A Week

By ROB GILLIES, Associated Press
Wed, 12/23/2009 - 9:37am

TORONTO (AP) -- The second outage of BlackBerry service in less than a week frustrated people who depend on the messaging device and comes at a bad time for its maker, which faces increasing competition in the market it helped pioneer....

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