Talk about flying blind. The Irish Times is reporting that an air-traffic controller used SMS text messages to help an instrument-less pilot land safely. When a twin-engined Piper aircraft lost power to all its avionics systems (electrical power, communications and weather radar) in a “serious incident,” the pilot used his mobile phone to call a nearby airport’s [...]

Boy Genius Reports has been hearing that BlackBerry users are again left in the dark due to a presumed BlackBerry BIS outage. Apparenty, CrackBerry addicts on Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile are experiencing problems with their email. If you've been having any BlackBerry outage problems, please leave a comment and let us know just how big [...]