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  2. BlackBerry Limited | Wikipedia

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    BlackBerry Limited. BlackBerry Limited (formerly Research In Motion or RIM for short) is a Canadian software company specializing in cybersecurity. Founded in 1984, it developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartphones, and tablets. The company transitioned to providing software and services and holds critical software ...

  3. Jim Balsillie | Wikipedia

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    Jim Balsillie. James Laurence Balsillie (born February 3, 1961) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He was the former chair and co- chief executive officer of the Canadian technology company Research In Motion (BlackBerry), which at its 2011 peak made US$ 19.9 billion (equivalent to $26.6 billion in 2023) in annual sales.

  4. Douglas Fregin | Wikipedia

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    Douglas Fregin. RIM co-founder Mike Lazaridis, employee Chris Shaw and co-founder Doug Fregin display the Budgie, the company’s first product, at Fairview Park Mall in Kitchener, Ontario, 1984. [1] Doug Fregin is a Canadian entrepreneur and engineer. He is best known as the co-founder of Research In Motion (now known as BlackBerry) alongside ...

  5. Blackberry | Wikipedia

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    Blackberry plants were used for traditional medicine by Greeks, other European peoples, and aboriginal Americans. [21] A 1771 document described brewing blackberry leaves, stem, and bark for stomach ulcers. [21] Blackberry fruit, leaves, and stems have been used to dye fabrics and hair. Native Americans have even been known to use the stems to ...

  6. Mike Lazaridis | Wikipedia

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    O.Ont (2006) Mihal " Mike " Lazaridis OC OOnt FRS (born March 14, 1961) is a Canadian businessman, investor in quantum computing technologies, and co-founder of Research In Motion, which created and manufactured the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. In November 2009, Canadian Business ranked Lazaridis as the 11th wealthiest Canadian, with an ...

  7. List of BlackBerry products | Wikipedia

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    The only model with 32 MB and Bluetooth is the 7290, which was the last model released in the early BlackBerry form factor, and was the first BlackBerry model with Bluetooth. The 7290 was also the first quad-band BlackBerry. An aberration in this list is the 7270, the first Wi-Fi BlackBerry, released later. It is built into the old form factor ...

  8. BlackBerry Pearl | Wikipedia

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    BlackBerry Pearl. The BlackBerry Pearl (8100 / 8110 / 8120 / 8130 / 8220 / 8230 / 9100 / 9105) was a series of smartphones developed by Research In Motion, and was the first BlackBerry device with a camera and media player. It was originally released on September 12, 2006. T-Mobile was the first US carrier to release the phone as a carrier device.

  9. BlackBerry Mobile | Wikipedia

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    BlackBerry Mobile. BlackBerry Mobile was a trading name used by TCL Communication between December 2016 and August 2020 to manufacture and sell BlackBerry -branded devices worldwide, excluding the regions where BB Merah Putih (Indonesia) and Optiemus Infracom (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal) operated. [1][2][3][4] BlackBerry Limited ...