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BBM goes down, government not to blame

If you were cursing your BlackBerry last night, take some solace from the fact you weren’t the only one. Research in Motion, owner of BlackBerry, suffered an outage to its instant messenger, email and browsing services, cutting off customers. But stay calm, it was nothing to do with riots. Customers took to Twitter to voice their complaints, as you would. The …

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Samsung taps ex

Samsung Electronics has appointed a former Sprint Nextel executive to help its U.S. mobile arm plan and launch new phones. Samsung tapped Kevin Packingham as its new senior vice president of product innovation, the company said today. Packingham was most recently chief executive of Amerilink Telecom, a small private company created to usher Chinese equipment manufacturer Huawei in as a …

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