Thanks for your patience
Posted Oct 17, 2011 06:55:27 AM.
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Research is Motion is reaching out to its customers caught up in last week’s huge BlackBerry service disruption.
It’s announced it will provide “a selection of premium Apps worth a total value of more than $100” free of charge.
RIM calls it “an expression of appreciation for their patience during the recent service disruptions.”
The Apps will be made available to customers on BlackBerry App World.
They will continue to be available until December 31st of this year.
RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis says “We truly appreciate and value our relationship with our customers. We’ve worked hard to earn their trust over the past 12 years, and we’re committed to providing the high standard of reliability they expect, today and in the future.”
The apps will be available for download at BlackBerry App World over a period of four weeks beginning this Wednesday.
According to the RIM website – the free Apps will include:
• SIMS 3 – Electronic Arts
• Bejeweled – Electronic Arts
• N.O.V.A. – Gameloft
• Texas Hold’em Poker 2 – Gameloft
• Bubble Bash 2 – Gameloft
• Photo Editor Ultimate – Ice Cold Apps
• DriveSafe.ly Pro – iSpeech.org
• iSpeech Translator Pro – iSpeech.org
• Drive Safe.ly Enterprise – iSpeech.org
• Nobex Radio™ Premium – Nobex
• Shazam Encore – Shazam
• Vlingo Plus: Virtual Assistant – Vlingo
Outages for RIM email, texting and Internet services began last Monday in Europe and spread to the Middle East, Africa and North and South America for varying lengths of time before services were fully restored on Thursday.
RIM also says its enterprise customers will be offered one month of free technical support.
