黑莓软件升级用户倒霉

Millions of people in North America, Asia, and Europe lost access to their email for up to 12 hours when a software upgrade caused problems with central systems at Canadian company Research In Motion, maker¹ of the BlackBerry email device. The software upgrade had not been tested enough. BlackBerry users, who are known for sometimes checking their email every few minutes, were very angry with the company. Wall Street banks said that deals may have been held up because of their inability to use their favorite form of communication. RIM², who has 8 million subscribers to their BlackBerry service, announced that they were making internal changes to ensure that such an outage does not happen again.

1 maker   

n.制造者，制造商

参考例句：

• He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
• A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。

2 rim   

n.(圆物的)边，轮缘；边界

参考例句：

• The water was even with the rim of the basin.盆里的水与盆边平齐了。
• She looked at him over the rim of her glass.她的目光越过玻璃杯的边沿看着他。