A few hours ago my area (Central Jersey) was hit with a network outage affecting voice and messaging services, so I sent a tweet to @Tmobile_USA about it. I soon found out that this outage was a nationwide issue and not just in my area, according to chatter on Twitter.

@Tmobile_USA sent out their own tweet vaguely addressing the issue but a T-Mobile Forums moderator posted a more detailed response:

We’re making good progress restoring voice and messaging service to affected customers.
At this time, approximately 5 percent of T-Mobile customers are experiencing service disruptions.

Issues began at approximately 5:30 p.m. Eastern time.  Our rapid response team is working continuously to fully resolve this disruption.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience that this has caused our customers.

My service seems to be restored but I’m getting reports that users are still being affected in other areas. Were you affected by T-Mobile’s network outage? If so let me know when and where in the comments!

XING, a leading business network in Europe, has launched a free application for BlackBerry smartphones.

By downloading XING business professionals will have access to their personal network directly on their BlackBerry in addition to keeping track of all their contacts, phone numbers, email addresses and being automatically updated online by the members themselves.

XING will work on any Internet-enabled BlackBerry running OS Version 4.2.1 or higher with at least 64 MB internal memory and 170 KB of available memory.

You can download it by visiting XING.com from your BlackBerry Browser, or get more info by visiting the same link from your desktop computer.

Full press release after the jump.

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