[TheMercuryMan]

Director of Public Safety Mark James applauded the outstanding cooperation from Research In Motion (RIM) with Missouri's emergency response community. RIM postponed a scheduled 4 hour BlackBerry Database upgrade for all North American subscribers from early Saturday morning, until a future date. Several flooding rivers in the St. Louis and eastern Missouri are scheduled to be at their record peak at the same time of the scheduled outage. Many first responders and emergency management officials who are feverishly working to protect citizens from the record flooding rely on their "BlackBerry" devices for critical communications. Missouri Homeland Security officials requested RIM to postpone the scheduled outage late Friday afternoon.

"RIM officials recognized the criticality of reliable and redundant communications for our first responders in an ongoing emergency, and didn't hesitate to cooperate in putting the upgrade off until Missouri's crisis passes. For this, I am extremely thankful," James said.

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[doughdaddy]

This is great news and I applaud RIM for doing so. It is too easy for most corporate entities to forget about the plights of others and to just do what they want.

Kudo's RIM

[DCookSta]

Great story.

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[snoweey]

~via BB (wap.pinstack.com)~another reason I love rim

[s16ri]

Thumbs up, RIM!

[thbassman]

That is just one of many reasons RIM rules!

[o1sowise]

Amazing.

Just one more reason why RIM is so successful.

[drew4flt72]

Nice Job RIM!! :D Good lookin' out.....

[Schufly]

That's just cool.....WTG

[OHFire]

Thanks RIM, responders thank you!

[dtx]

Well done RIM!

[kingrykku27]

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RIM did a good job here, making consumers and how they utilize their blackberries a priority to them. We need more of this everywhere. Good job.

[Dwaine12]

who's Better than RIM??? NOBODY

[harry3334]

That is pretty keep it up RIM

[vyperz]

RIM made a critical decision to help and RIM did great!!

Kudo's for RIM!!! = )

[gator2418]

This is one reason why the Iphone will never ,ever replace the blackberry.

[chokem]

Originally Posted by gator2418 This is one reason why the Iphone will never ,ever replace the blackberry.

What he said. Kudos to RIM!

[KalebsDad78]

Yup, couldn't have been more impressed. I'm in the emergency management and 9-1-1 communications field and this is a great response to an already stressful situation that allowed them to continue with real-time communications and uninterrupted communications at that.

Great job RIM...

[AZA43]

That is impressive. Another reason to love RIM.

AZA

[kennedy_84]

I wonder how this would have played out if RIM wasn't so nice and....Canadian. Good job RIM

[mrdarklover]

~via BB (wap.pinstack.com)~good job rim this is why the blackberry will always be the big ballers of the phone world big up to rim

[bbueding]

That was such a good decision, congratulations on a responsible move to help others!

[usman]

Good job RIM!
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[untjoker]

I was thinking that outage went a tad too smoothly........

[thechadj]

That is great that RIM knows how important their technology is and understands its role in such a critical time. It makes me proud to be a BlackBerry owner. Way to go!

[trinidude]

Well done RIM dudes!!!


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