The BlackBerry has long been associated with Capitol Hill staffers and legislators, but the device’s dominance is slowly falling as more Hill types switch over to iPhones.

So says the Beeb, which notes that Washingtonians should now have “fully restored” service on however many devices they haven’t been able to obsessively tap on of late.

An international interruption in BlackBerry services is now affecting North America, which means that a majority of people inside offices on Capitol Hill and along K Street are probably running around wondering if they should crack each other’s heads open and feast on the goo inside.

At a tech event last week called Digital Capital Week, iPhone fans reportedly outnumbered Blackberry users by a margin of 10 percent, at roughly 400 out of the 4,000 attendees. Meanwhile, in the House of Representatives, there are reportedly less than 100 total iPhones out of more than 9,000 smart phones. Is there any one reason why Washingtonians would cling to their Blackberry’s longer than their counterparts in say San Francisco or New York City?

The folks at NextBus have just released an application for the BlackBerry, available for $2.99 at this link. It appears to work somewhat similarly to the iPhone version, which we reviewed earlier this year. BlackBerry users, be sure to let us know how it works for you. In other mobile real time bus arrival application news, Greater Greater Washington has a review of a new Circulator iPhone app, created by developer Yaogang Lian using…

You may have noticed that DCist has a brand new mobile version, working as of this weekend on the iPhone, the BlackBerry (or if you’re like me, the really old, crappy Sidekick), and most every other mobile device. All you have to do is access DCist.com from your mobile device and you’ll be redirected (or you can go straight to mobile.dcist.com). There you’ll find a tinier and tidier version of DCist that’s optimized for…

Too funny. You’ll recall we pointed out the other day that the McCain campaign’s Arlington headquarters was holding a big fire sale to liquidate all its computers, Blackberries and other office equipment and furniture. Well FOX 5’s Tisha Thompson says she bought one of the McCain Blackberries, and it was filled with confidential campaign information. Thompson reports that one Blackberry she purchased from the campaign for $20 “contained more than 50 phone numbers for people…