Just got another notice from Joe at Dataoutages.com and confirmed by Remzi. Turns out there is an outage scheduled for North America next week. From what I am gathering this is an update to the BIS 2.4 servers. Anybody know if they are upgrading to BIS 2.5?
June 7-8 North America
Maintenance Summary: BlackBerry Internet Service v2.4 [...]

Josep has a sharp eye and noticed the first support document on RIM’s knowledge base about OS 4.5. It lets you know how to how to download and save an email message attachment in its native file format.
The caveat with this feature is that it is only available on BES and the size limit is [...]

If your part of the countries included in the Asia Pacific region you might want to read this. The admin of BB-Outages has confirmed two outages happening over this weekend. RIM is getting ready for the BIS 2.5, which supports HTML emails and has lots of other updates.
2008-May-30 Friday
Region: AsiaPacific
Severity: Critical
Service Type: Relay
Summary: BlackBerry Infrastructure [...]

Okay this is the second such promotion that RIM has run. I am not sure if it is still available since I heard about it this afternoon.

You go to the owners lounge and login. Click on the promotions menu item on the left. Then click on the tell me more link on the promotion box [...]

Yesterday when we posted some video & screenshots of Desktop Manager 4.5 somebody (Sir Brian of Dunwoody) asked why we left off the Media Manager. Turns out its there but we forgot about it. Feel free to check out the screencandy below:

Our anonymous tipster also showed us an interesting screenshot of the files installed by the upcoming BlackBerry Desktop Manager 4.5. I guess Josep was on the money when he caught the Symbian files.
Turns out that when you install Desktop Manager 4.5 it installs two new DLL files in the Common files folder shown below:

VBBClientCommForNokia.dll
VBBClientCommForWM.dll

I wonder [...]

I know that BoyGenius showed you some screenshots before of OS 4.5 before but here is some video from an anonymous donor. There are also the eyecandy screenshots below. Sadly there is no changelog and NO we do not know where you can download this but its nice to see that RIM is working on [...]

I know many of you were excited when we first announced the availability of the BlackBerry wallet application. Then sort of disappointed when we explained how it works. Well now we have some better news.
RIM has released 3 support documents for BlackBerry wallet. These documents outline exactly what a web developer or online store need [...]

I know this argument has been going on for ages. Is it BlackBerrys or BlackBerries. I have heard the points on both sides and personally held by BlackBerrys. Even the trusty Wikipedia refers to both the plural “BlackBerrys” AND “BlackBerries” in their article. 
So I did the research and it turns out all of us were [...]

Thanks to Raffy for sending this one in. RIM is finally holding its own against the requests from India’s government. They have answered that they do not have the technology (and should not) to decrypt and spy on their users emails.
From the coverage by the WSJ’s Livemint.com:

“The Blackberry security architecture for enterprise customers is purposefully [...]