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BlackBerry Woes Getting Better

POSTED: 11:53 pm EDT April 17, 2007

UPDATED: 1:35 pm EDT April 18, 2007

NEW YORK -- New information emerged Wednesday on a BlackBerry system failure that NewsChannel 4 first reported. The company that makes the handheld device said things were repaired Wednesday morning.

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Research in Motion, the Canadian company that provides the devices and e-mail service, said the interruption affected users in North America. RIM said the cause of the problems was still under review, but that service for most customers was restored overnight. Online news reports cited message boards that claimed the outage began at 8:15 p.m. EDT Tuesday. A recording on the BlackBerry helpline acknowledged a problem getting and sending messages, but said little else. The company serves about 8 million subscribers, having added about 1 million of them in the last quarter alone.