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I’ve got an abundance of bits and pieces of canadian telecom and internet experience, and I am thrilled to be in a place in time when all is changing, technology is developing, and the status quo is being disrupted. 

Floobergeist is a word that is beginning to defy definition.  The more I roll that smooth pebble around, the more it becomes to mean. Floobergeist started out as the magic dust that turns dreams into ideas.  And then it began to encompass the zing that happens when you have conversations about those ideas. And now, it’s the whole evolution from dream to conversation, with each step improving the later and the former along the way.

Everyone aspires to good conversations. They can lead you to adventures you’ve never imagined, and to people you can twig with.

Let’s have a good conversation…

welcome.

A Quiet Berry Morning

April 18, 2007  /  jules kivell

Last night, the wiz says to me “Hmmm, I’m not getting any emails to my berry…. can you send me something so we can test it?”… Badda Bing, I email him. Silence. His berry usually makes an odd “wooshing” sound when it receives a message, some sound akin to a hockey slapshot and a goalie save. It’s the Stanley Cup Finals, who am I to judge? ;-)

Regardless, no sound, no email. The second step - seeing if the email actually hit his gmail box. Sure enough, it was waiting patiently, but it wasn’t being forwarded on to his Berry.  And then we looked harder - the berry network being used was *GSM*. That can’t be good. The Berry adores the GPRS network. GSM smacks of network badness.

And now - a story released by the Toronto Star, indicates that it’s a problem affecting all the Blackberry users in the Western Hemisphere. In a strange turn of events, no info is coming from the carriers, nor from RIM directly, but from a TV station in New York.  Computerworld has a bit more information, but it’s still sketchy.  The fact that a single vendor can impact potentially millions of users is staggering. RIM has got 2 data centres in Canada where the Blackberry Servers talk to all the wee handhelds…. methinks that perhaps they may want to expand upon that setup with a bigger diversity play.

Funny side note: My  Blackberry is humming along just fine, thank you very much….. :-)

TheStar.com - Business - System failure hits BlackBerry

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