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Blackberry service disruptions spread to Latin America

Blackberry service disruptions spread to Latin America

Blackberry, which has been plagued by service outages in Europe, the Middle East and India this week, reports that disruptions have spread to Latin America.

 

BlackBerry reports problems in Europe, Middle East and Africa, says it’s investigating

Large numbers of BlackBerry users across Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been cut off from Internet and messaging services, phone companies in the affected regions said Monday. BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. gave few details beyond a brief statement saying that customers were “experiencing issues,” but telecommunications companies in the Middle East and Europe laid the blame at the Canadian company’s door.

 

Apple says iPhone 4S broke pre-order record

Apple says iPhone 4S broke pre-order record

Apple Inc received orders for more than one million iPhone 4S phones in the first 24 hours, topping the previous record of 600,000, the company said on Monday.

Senh: I wonder how much Steve Jobs's death has to do with this. Apple fans are probably buying it to commerate Jobs. It is "4 Steve." Good to see, though.

 

iPhone 4S pre-orders may have topped 500000 in the US before Apple ran out

iPhone 4S pre-orders may have topped 500000 in the US before Apple ran out

If you had any doubts that Apple (AAPL) would be able to beat the record 1.7 million iPhones sold in three days in June 2010, you can put them to rest.

 

Samsung, Google Delay Launch Due to Jobs Death

Samsung and Google have agreed to delay the public announcement of a new mobile-phone product following the death of Steve Jobs.

 

Sony Wants Full Control of Sony Ericsson to Boost Smartphones

Sony is looking to buy out Ericsson's share of Sony Ericsson, a move to gain full control and beef up development of the struggling handset unit. Japanese-Swedish joint venture, a 50-50 partnership since 2001, is the sixth-largest handset maker, but has been losing profits in recent years as it held back on smartphone development.

 

Apple iPhone 4S goes on pre-sale

Apple iPhone 4S goes on pre-sale

The iPhone 4S -- Apple's newest creation -- quietly went on pre-sale at 12 a.m. on Friday... The phone, which has been panned by some critics who say it's more of a facelift to the iPhone 4 than a new product, features a faster dual-core processor and a camera with 8 megapixels of resolution.

 

iPhone 4S Roundup: Hands-on reactions

Apple unveiled its iPhone 4S on Tuesday to a lot of fanfare and quite a bit of disappointment. In our not-at-all scientific poll of more than 4,000 respondents, 57 percent of our readers said that they were expecting to see an iPhone 5 and 21 percent said they weren’t that excited by the new features.

 

Samsung Seeks to Ban iPhone 4S in France, Italy

Samsung Electronics said it would try to stop the sale of Apple's iPhone 4S in France and Italy, aiming to use the product's rollout as leverage against Apple in a broader fight over the design of smartphones and tablet computers.

 

5 reasons people say iPhone 4S a dud

Usually a cause for techno-euphoria, Apple's iPhone-a-palooza event on Tuesday had an unintended and unlikely effect: It made some corners of the Internet mad.

 

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