As part of its efforts to appease BlackBerry owners following a four-day service outage, RIM has announced it will offer customers a selection of premium applications worth more than $100...

Read More: RIM offers free apps, support as compensation for BlackBerry outage

The unfortunate three-day BlackBerry message service outage in Africa, Europe and the Middle East last week had the interesting unintended side effect of demonstrating the contribution of texting/emailing-while-driving to automobile accidents and deaths. The National reported that Dubai officials reported data which indicates that:


Read More: Did the Three Day BlackBerry Outage Last Week Save Lives?

If you've been having BlackBerry problems for the past few days, you're far from alone. Canada-based Research In Motion has been having some serious server issues and, in a conference...

Read More: RIM explains BlackBerry outage, but gives no ETA of a fix

There may yet be hope for those of you who are still addicted to your BlackBerry devices. You might remember a about a year ago when instant-messaging service Kik got...

Read More: Kik comes back to the BlackBerry, just in time for BBM outage