The launch of the Galaxy Nexus has been postponed as a mark of respect to Steve Jobs, who died last week, Samsung has confirmed. The Galaxy Nexus, also known as the Nexus Prime, was to have been unveiled this week with a new version of Android, called Ice Cream Sandwich. “We believe this is not the right time to announce …

BlackBerrys are broken. A BlackBerry outage has crippled BlackBerry Messenger and Internet connection for millions of users — and it’s all Slough’s fault. The problem started around 11am today due to a fault in the Slough-based servers of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, and has now spread around Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Ouch. Judging by updates posted to …

BlackBerry users across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa have been hit by a data outage that cut off access to e-mail, the Internet, and instant messaging, among other services. The outage began today around 10:20 a.m. BST and is still continuing, according to posts to Twitter by BlackBerry owners and service providers. Carriers in the UK are blaming Research …