cnet.com is reporting a nationwide outage for Blackberry users. It appears that the system is back up and running but no word has been given on what caused the outage. Users were unable to send or receive email for several hours.

"From Philadelphia to Chicago to Atlanta "CrackBerry" addicts are being forced to put down their handheld devices until Research in Motion, the company that provides the BlackBerry email service, can get back online."