Appears Blackberry have lost it

Blackberry are in the news once more, with yet another service outage. Is it just me, or are Blackberry services down more than they are up?

Users were unable to use email and web facilities. Photo: uk.hardware.info

This latest blackout appears to have affected Vodafone customers and left users without email or web access. Whilst SMS and phone calls were still functional, the main purpose of a Blackberry is for email and various uses of the web (BBM, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)

A lot of users took to Twitter to voice their frustrations - using their PC of course - and demand Vodafone to get things sorted. From what I understand, and from research, it appears that RIM placed the blame on Vodafone because all of their services were operating "normally".

I'm not sure how much longer the Blackberry has in the UK market. It still has an attraction to the common consumer in that you can pick one up relatively cheap, and it has the BBM feature that other phone's lack. The most common use for a Blackberry, that I have seen, is business. It seems they are the much easier option - plus the business side of the network never appears to have problems.

To think, at one stage, I used to want a Blackberry. How very lucky I feel that I was turned down for credit back then. Possibly the only time having no credit rating will save my life.

In other news...

Take a look at the below image. It's a box junction in London that has been dubbed "The Moneybox Junction". Drivers feel that the council have deliberately made the box larger than standard, as well as strategically place two sets of lights a few hundred metres away, all to generate massive sums of money.

I think the estimation is that the council made around £2M between 2011-2012 - crazy, isn't it!

Moneybox Junction. Photo: http://bit.ly/VY6OL4 (Daily Mail)