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Submission + - BlackBerry servers crash, millions without BBM (techradar.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10, 2011 @05:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: RIM has confirmed that it has had an outage at one of its BlackBerry servers, which has taken BBM, internet and email offline for millions of its users. The outage began at 11am Monday and is still affecting users at the time of this article's publication. The server that went down is thought to be situated in Slough and is affecting the EMEA region, which comprises Europe, the Middle East and Africa. There are also reports that the main server in Canada, where RIM is based, may also be affected.

Submission + - AT&T Will Pay Part of Your Bill if You Threate (getyourgadgetsgoing.com)

Submitted by

Tristan36

on Monday October 10, 2011 @05:13PM

Tristan36 writes: "There has been a lot of people talking about how paying the early termination fee, and moving to Sprint from AT&T will actually be cheaper than simply paying for an early upgrade (for those who get that sort of thing). Now, it seems that the AT&T staff have been instructed to offer some incentive to those who threaten to leave for another carrier. Here we thought that 4G was incentive enough!"

Submission + - Latest combat drone makes wheels up test flight (suasnews.com)

Submitted by

garymortimer

on Monday October 10, 2011 @05:08PM

garymortimer writes: "The U.S. Navy/Northrop Grumman Corporation X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration aircraft reached a major milestone Sept. 30 when it retracted its landing gear and flew in its cruise configuration for the first time.

The flight, conducted at Edwards Air Force Base, also helped validate precision navigation hardware and software that will allow the X-47B to land with precision on the moving deck of an aircraft carrier.

“Last week’s flight gave us our first clean look at the aerodynamic cruise performance of the X-47B air systemand it is proving out all of our predictions,” said Janis Pamiljans, vice president and Navy UCAS program manager for Northrop Grumman’s Aerospace Systems sector. “Reaching this critical test point demonstrates the growing maturity of the air system, and its readiness to move to the next phase of flight testing.”"

Submission + - Google+ loses 60% of active users (theinquirer.net) 2

Submitted by tech4 on Monday October 10, 2011 @09:01AM

tech4 writes: Despite users curiosity around Google+, it seems like most Google+ users just wanted to see the platform and then returned to Facebook. 'Google has lost over 60 per cent of its active users on its social network Google+, according to a report by Chitika Insights, raising questions about how well it is doing against its rival, Facebook. Despite the clear interest in an alternative to Facebook, it does not appear that the people joining are staying around and actively using the web site. Google's problem is not getting users in the first place, it seems, but rather keeping them after they have arrived. For now it appears that a lot of users are merely curious about Google+, but return to the tried and tested format of Facebook when the lustre fades. The problem is that Facebook is not going to rest on its laurels while Google attempts to get the advantage. Already it has added features inspired by Google+, particularly in terms of improving the transparency of its privacy options.'

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