{"id":22749,"date":"2012-09-21T13:56:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T11:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=22749"},"modified":"2012-09-21T14:01:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T12:01:26","slug":"blackberry-problems-hit-users-across-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/22749\/blackberry-problems-hit-users-across-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry problems hit users across Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Blackberry\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1752-BlackBerry\">Blackberry<\/a> maker <a title=\"Research In Motion\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1750-RIM-Research-In-Motion\">Research In Motion<\/a> suffered service problems in Europe on Friday, just as its key rival <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1648-Apple\">Apple<\/a> started sales of its new iPhone around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some users in Europe, Middle East &amp; Africa are experiencing issues with their BlackBerry service,&#8221; the Canadian firm tweeted from its British twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>Last October a system-wide failure of the service left tens of millions of frustrated BlackBerry users on five continents without email, instant messaging and browsing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/20199\/rim-promises-a-better-connected-bb10\/\"><strong>RIM promises a better-connected BB10<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/columns\/19152\/blackberry-pricing-problem-looming\/\"><strong>BlackBerry pricing problem looming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"RIM appoints new MD for South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/18792\/rim-appoints-new-md-for-south-africa\/\"><strong>RIM appoints new MD for South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BlackBerry\u2019s uncertain future in corporate SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/18353\/blackberrys-uncertain-future-in-corporate-sa\/\"><strong>BlackBerry\u2019s uncertain future in corporate SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIM has said that BlackBerry users across Europe, Middle East and Africa are experiencing problems with the BlackBerry email service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,1625,161,4196,159,157],"class_list":["post-22749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-bbm","tag-blackberry","tag-blackberry-email","tag-research-in-motion","tag-rim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22749"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22753,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22749\/revisions\/22753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}