The keys can be damaged by a folded edge to the inside of a sleeve that was sold until early November. This is in a support document that the Canadian blog MobileSyrup a picture has been published . RIM says it’s all broken keys under warranty will be repaired.

The deliberate cover has been discontinued. That case led to the broken keys, according to RIM was a ‘design flaw’. That error has since recovered. It is unclear how many users of the Bold 9900 with this problem had.

RIM released the Bold 9900 in August. It was the first smartphone with BlackBerry OS 7 and the first BlackBerry with a Qualcomm-soc: the processor used is the MSM8255 clocked at 1.2 GHz single-core. The device has a 2.8 “screen with a resolution of 640×480 pixels with a physical qwerty keyboard underneath.

Sony has in its third fiscal quarter of 2011, a loss suffered from 159 billion yen, converted 1.58 billion euros. The Japanese group has his expectations for the results downwards. The reasons that Sony calls for the bad results are the floods in Thailand, the sale of the shares in the joint venture S-LCD and the acquisition of Sony Ericsson, while the strong yen would play a role.

Sony sold six million TVs in the period October to December 2011. A year earlier the company has sold 7.9 million TVs. Nevertheless, Sony maintains that for this year 20 million TVs can sell, as previously indicated. Sony sold fewer cameras and PCs than in the third quarter of 2010.

Sony knew something more PS3’s selling: sales increased from 6.3 to 6.5 million units. Sony expects its fourth quarter less Playstation 3 to sell. The company reduced the expected 15 million consoles to sell namely to 14 million. The sales of the PlayStation Portable and the PlayStation 2 dropped seems to have had its day: Sony still sold 900,000, far less than the end of 2010, when there were 2.1 million went over the counter tips.

The reorganization, which IBM internally Generation Open is called, among other things would lead to about eight thousand of the twenty thousand jobs in Germany are deleted. Workers would be replaced by so-called liquidating workers . That is the term used for IBM employees temporarily recruited for a project. Through the use of this type of labor force hopes to IBM projects was 30 per cent faster ex-to have, while the costs with a third party should lessen the.

When and exactly how many layoffs there will occur is not yet decided. Nor is it clear whether jobs were eliminated in other countries as part of a reorganization news. IBM was unavailable for questions about possible layoffs in the Netherlands or Belgium. The group Reuters has announced that it does not officially have announced layoffs, but experiment with the use of temporary workers.