13 October 2011 Last updated at 03:47 ET
Rory Cellan-Jones Article written by Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent

Blackberry's system meltdown

Technical failures have dogged the smart phone for three days and the company has apologised to customers

Here's my report on the continuing disruption to Blackberry's services caused by the failure of a "core switch".

Tens of millions of customers have been affected over the last three days, prompting the company to apologise.

Rory Cellan-Jones Article written by Rory Cellan-Jones Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent

Good news - journalism matters

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For a variety of reasons, these are dark days for journalism, with the public's appetite to hand over money in return for quality reporting apparently in inexorable decline. How cheering then to be able to report some good news.

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