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Two earth-shaking events hit the tech world, as Steve Jobs stepped down from his top spot at Apple and a 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Virginia rattled the East Coast, shutting down cell phone networks as shaken-up people jammed lines. The Score is a weekly column scoring controversial events in the mobile industry. Want to get [...]
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Quake Didn’t Shake Up BlackBerry Messaging Service
August 24th, 2011 
admin BlackBerry users on Tuesday had no problems sending messages after the Virginia earthquake even though cell phone service jammed on the East Coast, suggesting the Research In Motion devices may still prove valuable to people concerned about communicating in emergency situations. The RIM devices depend on the company’s servers for e-mail and messaging services, instead [...]
