Blog 4: Blackberry Malfunctions-Steven Sciacchitano 9/21/12

 Blackberry service in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been disabled somehow due to a core shift concerning technological malfunctions. According to UK inquiries, almost seven million Blackberry users have experienced a shutdown in their cellular devices while RIM (Research in Motion) does not know when or how the problem will be fixed. Ironically, the faded service so happened to break down right after Apple's iPhone 5 went for sale. Even though it only happened for three hours this past Friday, messages were still restored in the aftermath of this unethical occurrence. Users lost access to e-mails, calls and messages which could be an economic downturn for global transactions. For instance, when Google was vulnerable due to some technological occurrences they lost a great amount of income that could have positively impacted their corporation. No service is just like a snow day for companies like these who have a centralized system that creates a common outbreak in widespread service outages. 

Despite their new production innovations of operating phones and array of operating systems, RIM's profit margin is sinking by almost five percent.  Globalization and the advancements of technology are becoming rapidly dependent on non-domestic industries which monitor their products closely. Technological failures like RIM's have consequently endured the reasoning behind centralized systems in regards to widespread service failures. Companies like Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) implement updated news feed in their articles about basic outbreaks relating to RIM's, but did not post such information causing Blackberry users to be confused about their vital product for their everyday use. The Blackberry Corporation seems to have everything under control by now and is establishing new ways to counter-react problems like these that could eventually come back in the future. As technology rapidly advances, agencies like TRA are still exceptionally failing to solve vigorous matters and problems such as RIM’s. However, as technology progresses, there are times like these when companies can experience economic downfall from just three hours of temporary service termination. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/technology/outage-affects-european-rim-customers.html?ref=global
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/mobile-phone/3399750/blackberry-service-failure-hits-europe-one-year-after-major-outage/
http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/blackberry-disrupted-for-many-customers-in-the-uae