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Research In Motion’s rolling global outages could be a major body blow for a company looking to get off the mat. In fact, the timing of these outages is simply brutal. RIM tweets about BlackBerry outages. Twitter; screenshot by Larry Dignan/ZDNet Here are the moving parts: RIM is trying to convince folks to buy its BlackBerry 7 devices and has …

Analysts expect more than 100 million iPhones to be sold this year. Apple Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, based on sales and upgrade data, thinks that nearly 19 million customers with the iPhone 3GS will upgrade to the iPhone 4S this year, AppleInsider reports. Though Munster’s predictions are admittedly assumptions, he says they are conservative. For Apple watchers, the numbers …