NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - North and South American users of Research in Motion Ltd's BlackBerry smartphone suffered widespread delays in message services on Tuesday, just a week after another outage struck the popular corporate network.

周二在北美和南美，使用RIM生产的“黑莓”智能手机用户普遍遭遇发送信息延迟困扰，这是继前一周该公司网络发生类似毛病后另一起。

Customers and analysts had raised concerns about network stability after a short-lived outage on December 17 -- the same day the Canadian company reported quarterly results.

早在12月17日，时值这家加拿大公司发布它的季度报告之际，当天一段时间内（黑莓手机）出现短信发送延迟毛病，自此之后，消费者和分析家提高了对它的网络稳定性德关注。

RIM said in a statement that some BlackBerry customers in the Americas "are experiencing delays in message delivery. Technical teams are actively working to resolve the issue for those impacted."

RIM在一份声明中称：美国地区的一些“黑莓”手机用户正在遭受信息发送延迟的困扰，技术团队已经在积极着手为那些客户解决问题。

Canada-based RIM's line of BlackBerry products is one of the world's most popular smartphone brands, and is used widely among corporations as an email and communications device.    Link

总部设在加拿大的RIM生产的“黑莓”产品是世界上最受欢迎的智能手机品牌之一，广泛应用于公司之间的电子邮件传递和交流。