The Electric Reliability Council of Texas ordered an end to the rolling electrical outages Wednesday afternoon. The agency said the blackouts were needed to compensate for a generation shortage due to numerous plant trips that have occurred because of the extreme weather. The blackouts were designed to last 10 to 45 minutes per neighborhood, but […]

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(CNN) -- BlackBerry customers throughout North America were without e-mail and Internet services for more than eight hours after a widespread outage that lasted until early Wednesday. Customers began receiving e-mails again around 2:45 a.m. ET. Initial reports of outages came from BlackBerry around 6:30 p.m.