SAN DIEGO–Without a doubt, the biggest highlight of CTIA was spent in the company of …

It looks like BlackBerry is still down for users around the world — on the day Apple releases iMessage, Apple’s rival messaging service. Cut off from BlackBerry Messenger, BBM addicts are descending into madness, their only contact with the outside world being angry tweets, Facebook updates and comments on this very site. iMessage is built in to iOS 5, the …

The BlackBerry outages are all down to a message backlog, apparently. A backup failure in Europe meant undelivered messages broke the entire global network, BlackBerry makers RIM said in a press conference this evening. It’s working to fix the situation, but users all over the world are still suffering, with some with no BBM, others no email or internet as well. Read …