According to Research In Motion, a Blackberry email outage has now spread to the U.S. While this outage may be somewhat mitigated for large enterprises which run in-house Blackberry Enterprise Servers, individuals and small businesses who depend on Blackberry devices for mobile email access could be affected for several days.
News reports indicate that RIM experienced a core switch failure that took critical email servers off the Internet long enough to create an enormous backlog of messages that will need to be processed more or less in chronological order.
A tough few days for RIM … but things seem to be looking up.