BlackBerry Curve Touch and Bellagio Info Leaked

When any tidbits pertaining to any unheralded phone or device is revealed to the devs,then don't be surprised if the news makes the headlines.Probably the same happened with RIM when it revealed the information regarding two future BlackBerry Phones -BlackBerry Curve Touch 9380 and Bellagio 9790 to its devs who have now spread it around the internet.
                                                 The main reason this info was revealed to the dev's was to intimate them regarding the resolutions which are expected on both the  BlackBerry devices.From the bits & pieces received it can be deduced that the Bellagio will be sporting a 2.4 Inches screen along with a screen resolution of 480 * 360 P with a PPI of 245,where as the Curve is expected to come with a larger screen of 3.2 Inches identical resolution which means a lesser PPI of 189.While Bellagio is expected to a full touch type BlackBerry,Curve will be sporting a keyboard interface.We can expect some statements from RIM pretty soon enough I guess.

RIM Outage Victims Provided Compensation In Apps Instead Of Cash

After Resuscitating from the Outage which crippled BlackBerry's Web based communications leaving the BBM,Web,EMail users literally stranded for almost 4 days after an apparent failure in the failswitch mechanism. The issue which was initially prevalent in the Middle East countries,along with India & South Africa also engulfed U.S,Canada & Puerto Rica into this messy affair.
                                                            After RIM managed to the clear the backlogs which were created due to the apparent glitch was removed & the company had issued an official statement claiming that the services are fully restored & up and running.While users were expecting for some kind of a compensatory cash package,to everyones dismay RIM has announced that it will be provided a package of 12 apps as a compensation.Totaling almost $100 in the BlackBerry App store,these apps include SIMS 3,Vligno plus which are premium apps which will be provided given free with a customer support offered for one month.The Entire App list includes the following:

• SIMS 3 – Electronic Arts 
• Bejeweled – Electronic Arts
• N.O.V.A. – Gameloft
• Texas Hold’em Poker 2 – Gameloft
• Bubble Bash 2 – Gameloft
• Photo Editor Ultimate – Ice Cold Apps
• DriveSafe.ly Pro – iSpeech.org
• iSpeech Translator Pro – iSpeech.org
• Drive Safe.ly Enterprise – iSpeech.org
• Nobex Radio™ Premium – Nobex
• Shazam Encore – Shazam 
• Vlingo Plus: Virtual Assistant – Vlingo

                                                  In a statement made by Research In Motion's(RIM)CEO Mike Lazaridis:

“We are grateful to our loyal BlackBerry customers for their patience,” RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said in a statement. “We have apologized to our customers and we will work tirelessly to restore their confidence. We are taking immediate and aggressive steps to help prevent something like this from happening again.”

Well the disgruntled users have something to cheer about rather than to be left high & dry.Probably this comes as a tactical move by RIM to prevent its users from shifting over to Apple's iOS whose timing was absolutely perfect with the Outage which eclipsed RIM.The entire cost of the Outage due to a Snag in the server as well as back-up server system has slapped RIM with losses which amounts to a staggering $100M.
                                                                             

BlackBerry Services Fully Restored,But No Compensation?:RIM

Research In Motion(RIM) has officially announced during the press conference that the BlackBerry services are now fully operational.When asked regarding any compensation package to be delivered to the BlackBerry users,co-CEO of RIM,Jim Balsillie had absolutely no idea on if & claimed that RIM's main focus was to work on the technical snag & get the BlackBerry services up & running as soon as possible.He also mentioned that there will be a talk regarding that aspect with the RIM board & will be decided.
                                                         The main reason for this fiasco was due to the apparent collapse of a back-up system in case of switch failure.A dual-redundancy high capacity switch failed in Europe; that should have been handled by a backup system, but that system also collapsed.This lead to the imminent overloading of the servers all over & by the time the system was back on line there were Terabytes of Backlogs which had to be removed to resume uninterrupted services.Although its still not sure how the back-up system had failed,the rule of thumb points to some hardware related failures.
                                                        With a 99.97 % uptime in the last 18 months,RIM's image has definitely taken a dent & we can be pretty sure that they will ensure such an event is never replicate in the future.Having already launched the investigations,they are currently in talks with the Hardware vendors regarding the apparent hardware glitch.
                                                     This was probably the worst time for this Crash to happen at a time which coincided with Apple's Historic launch of iOS 5 & iMessenger which is aimed directly at BlackBerry's BBM.With Apple's threat looming over BBM,RIM has its work cut out for it.

Free Windows Phones To Frustrated BlackBerry Users

Trying to capitalize on the Blackberry outage fiasco,Microsoft has decided to give away free Windows Phone to the frustrated BlackBerry users who are completely cut off from any form of Web service.The outage glitch which has almost entered the fourth day today due to a failover switch issue seems far from being rectified even though RIM has identified the issue & is currently being rectified.The glitch has also Affected U.S,Canda & Puerto Rico where services are slowly recovering back to its feet.

                                                          This offer is not for everyone,but just to the frustrated Blackberry users who has to respond to "Ben the Pc guy's tweets" & enlighten him as to why you need to upgrade to the Windows Phone.The lucky 25 BlackBerry people will receive 25 Windows Phone from Ben if they managed to provide the right reasons. 

BlackBerry Services Back Online:Hackers Not Involved

This comes as delightful news for the BlackBerry users who had their services down for the third straight day.With U.S & Canada also joining this list,it appears that they have finally got hold of the situation & already they are claiming that the BBM,Web & Email services have already started to function in places where its services were affected.
                                                      Still there are people who claim that the BlackBerry services are still down,but the good thing is that the bits & bytes have started flowing slowly once again now that they have started to clear the hug backlog created due to a failover switch issue.While U.S & Canada BlackBerry services are back online,those with the EMEIA network like India,Africa,Middle East & Latin American countries,the services are still down for a record straight 4th day.
                                                        With media speculating that the result of the BlackBerry Outrage was due to security breach by a bunch of Hackers,the RIM quickly released a press statement claiming that its services were not infiltrated & users will be able to recover most of the data and nothing will be lost.However RIM has not announced any compensation for the BlackBerry users and neither has it issued a deadline for this outage to be fixed permanently.