After reporting stellar financial performance in the most recent quarter, RIMM now has some news that is not so good. It suffered an email collapse on its Blackberry service throughout the Americas. This is possible because of the centralized nature of RIMM’s push email technology. It creates what is essentially a single point of failure risk to the system as a whole.  It appears the outage lasted 8 hours.

Even worse for RIMM, this outage is the third in a month.

The issue represents the third such failure within weeks and comes just as RIM is counting on continued strong sales to buffer itself against competition from the iPhone, which may come close to or match BlackBerry sales based on some analyst estimates.