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on any given day here at the capital you will find members of congress walking the halls with their heads bowed-- not in prayer but reading their blackberries. in the 21st century, that is the way business is done here and in much of the rest of the world. that business was disrupted when blackberry service suddenly went down on monday. one country, one continent after another. e-mails and text messages couldn't get through. today the message 70 million blackberry subscribers were waiting for from the c.e.o. of the company: service has been fully restored. but as john blackstone tell...

two-thirds even say they've slept with them. but while the old-fashioned land line phone system was built to virtually always work, hand-held devices have never been that dependable says tech analyst charles govin. >> we all live with sporadic outages. i won't say on a daily basis but it's not infrequent. >> reporter: that's a reason govin has cell phones from three different carriers to make sure he's never entirely disconnected. >> today we still use the phrase "to go online" but the truth is we don't go online, we are online. we live our lives online. the net has become this perva...