The second lengthy BlackBerry outage in less than a year has one consulting company advising clients not to rely solely on the popular smart phones for critical e-mail messages.

PC World - Business Center: Service Outage Gives BlackBerry a Black Eye

Here's a great article in the Times analyzing the infamous "Blackberry Addiction" that plagues professionals these days.

It Don't Mean a Thing If You Ain't Got That Ping - New York Times

If we can somehow prove this was the effect of global warming, we can save the planet.

On Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Eastern time, technical problems cut off more than five million BlackBerry users in the United States from their cherished wireless e-mail. Service was restored 10 long, data-starved hours later.

Bereft of BlackBerrys, the Untethered Make Do - New York Times

From ars technica:

"Are devices such as BlackBerrys and Treos actually chaining Americans to their work instead of liberating them? There has been plenty of speculation on the topic of whether being "always on" is affecting our everyday lives. However, survey data released today from Digital Life America shows that although Americans are split over whether that constant connection is a good thing or not, being constantly connected means more work for many."

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Survey: Blackberry owners chained to work