I heard a rumor about this earlier but now it's confirmed:
Blackberry System Dead in entire Western Hemisphere.

Wonder what could cause such a massive outage of this system, the tit of which Karl R suckles on incessantly? Don't you wonder if maybe their attempt to pull his records out of the servers could have caused something to go a little bit oopsie?

I bet he's wondering that about now. I hear their servers are in Canada too...

Heh. Of course it may be nothing. And my condolences to those who use their berries for Good. Details....

NewsChannel4 has learned of a massive system failure affecting all blackberry users in the western hemisphere.

The RIM Company, which stands for Research In Motion, developed blackberry technology and said its infrastructure failed around 8 p.m. Tuesday and has been down ever since.

E-mails are not being pushed to portable blackberry devices.

Officials with RIM said they are trying to reset the system and told NewsChannel4 that they are concerned that the backlog of data, which will rush through when it comes back on line, could cause a bigger problem.

When the error is corrected, RIM officials said a message would be sent in stages so the system does not crash.

Officials said the problem would carry into the morning.

For the moment, RIM officials recommend all who depend on their blackberry as a major way of communication should make some back-up plans.

Time to visit that undisclosed location in Paraguay now, Karl? Just to check it out. I hear the water is beautiful there.