USPS Servers Going Up In Smoke

As of yesterday, it appears that the U.S. Post Office is having trouble with their servers that allow programs to get a real time shipping quote. Developers of e-commerce solutions are having to find backup solutions such as estimating shipping costs or building current shipping costs into their program as the USPS. As of 9:20 AM PST, they were still down. Here's hoping that no Mod-Blog readers are affected by this.

Blackberry E-mail Service is Down

Apparently, the popular BlackBerry devices from RIM are 100% dead in the second major outage in a year. With many people in business, politics, and government reliant on these devices for day-to-day operations, it may encourage more people to jump ship to Apple's iPhone, Danger's Sidekick, or Microsoft's Windows Mobile devices.

UPDATE 2:42 PM: I an reading that the outage has been resolved.