research is n motion is investigating what caused a service outage for blackberry user in europe and africa. happened on friday, was fixed after several hours. now outage came as customers are abandoning their blackberries for flashier iphones and android phone products. now to our big three money headlines. has the economy bottomed out? the iphone 5 frenzy, and hot holiday gifts. joining me on the retail and economy analyst, good to have you here. not such good news for research in motion to have that problem on the same day that the iphone 5 comes out. we ll talk about that in a second. let s get to research not in motion. research not in motion. yeah. not for people especially me who is old school blackberry. but the economy being considered fragile right now but moving in the right direction. what the biggest concerns as we re in this tentative stage? economists are saying that it really has to do with government policies. what s going to happen come january in those el