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BlackBerry blackout causes headache for some

At least the pecking fingers of BlackBerry addicts got some relief.

BlackBerries went out across North America Monday in what Research in Motion, the company that invented the device, called a "critical severity outage."

About 8 million BlackBerry users received, ironically, an email from the company about 3:30 p.m. alerting them that "network infrastructure is experiencing a service...

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