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Apparently the second outage was largely caused by the backlog of data spewing through the system after the first one! Having one point of failure I can understand but not for half the world... and I certainly wouldn't have thought Slough would be so importantPete wrote:What *is* with that BlackBerry nonsense anyhow? Speaking as a developer I am amazed they seem to have a single point of failure on their massive network.
Having everything centralised is both a selling point and a huge disadvantage for Blackberries. The network was the reason why they could offer data long before WAP/GPRS was available and it's also the reason why companies liked it as it was more secure than using the internet.
However it's been a issue before their recent problems, several countries tried to close them down a while back because the BB network too more secure and not snoopable unlike the net.
Windows Phone 7.5 has a integrated facebook, SMS and MSN chat. If the person is online it will send a MSN or Facebook message instead of a text.Pete wrote:Also I see Facebook have attempted to shore up their crap instant messaging system by releasing a separate app for android. Is this on the other platforms too?