UPDATE See RIM’s statement about this outage below. *

When I woke up this morning I noticed I didn’t get any emails overnight. This set off an alarm since I usually have a good amount of emails to wake up to. I did some searching and it didn’t take long to find out that according to a Twitter search and DataOutages, there is in fact a BIS outage happening now that seems to only be affecting the sending and receiving of emails.

I can use applications that connect to the internet but emails aren’t coming through even with WiFi on. Are you being affected by this outage? Let me know what’s not working and your general area in the comments so we can see how big this outage is.

So far it looks like this outage is affecting North American BlackBerry users.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Research In Motion said on Thursday that customers in North America may be currently experiencing delays in receiving email over their BlackBerry smartphones.

RIM said in a statement that its technical teams were working to resolve the issue and that phone service, browsing and “PIN-to-PIN messaging” were not affected.

The company reports third-quarter financial results after markets close on Thursday.

via Reuters