Research in Motion, the Canadian company that makes BlackBerries and handles their data transmission, says it suffered a
"critical severity outage" Monday afternoon -- whatever that means. For millions of BlackBerry users, the outage meant that nothing came through the system for a few hours. The data started trickling again after 5:30 p.m.
This is an opportunity to explore the role of e-mail in today's society.
I'm a reporter at WCCO-TV, and we actually did a...