<p>BlackBerry says an email and messaging service outage that affected customers in Canada and the Asia Pacific region on Tuesday has been resolved.</p><p>Lisette Kwong, a spokeswoman for the Waterloo-based smartphone maker, thanked users for their patience but did not offer details on numbers affected or the cause of the outage.</p><p>Earlier Twitter posts said BlackBerry smartphones running software that predates its latest BB10 operating system were impacted across various carriers and in provinces including Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, B.C. and Nova Scotia.</p><p>Tweets reported outages of email, Internet and the ping messaging service.</p><p><a href="http://www.thestar.com/business/2014/03/04/blackberry_users_reporting_email_and_messaging_disruptions.html">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/03/04/blackberry-outage-canada_n_4896583.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-business">BlackBerry Users Report Email And Messaging Service Outage</a> (Huffington Post Canada)</p><p><a href="http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4395476-blackberry-users-reporting-email-and-messaging-disruptions/">BlackBerry users reporting email and messaging disruptions</a> (Waterloo Record)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dxYF_O6GMKdQyYM56FVsw_Vj88yiM&authuser=0&ned=us">42 additional articles.</a></p>