1999

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Corporate Milestones

  • RIM lists on the NASDAQ (Nasdaq: RIMM) exchange. The company raises another $250 million to develop its BlackBerry technology.
  • RIM introduces the BlackBerry 850 Wireless Handheld PDA, putting together e-mail, wireless data networks, and a traditional - if tiny - QWERTY keyboard so successfully in a hand-held device that demand for it explodes. Some refer to the device as the "Crackberry."

Product Announcements

  • RIM introduces the BlackBerry wireless email solution, BlackBerry Enterprise Server Software for Microsoft Exchange and the RIM 850 Wireless Handheld™ as well as the RIM 802D OEM Radio Modem and the RIM 902M OEM Radio Modem

Partnerships & Alliances

  • RIM signs BlackBerry supply agreement with Dell, renews supply agreements with BellSouth Wireless Data (now Cingular) and extends its OEM radio modems supply agreement with Panasonic and Lipman USA
  • RIM works with WolfeTech Corporation and GoAmerica Communications to further develop BlackBerry applications

Awards

  • Best Pager Award from 'etown.com'
  • Deloitte & Touche Canadian Technology Fast 50
  • Market Engineering Product Innovation Award from Frost & Sullivan
  • Canadian-American Business Achievement Award
  • Smithsonian Award, the Mobility Award from Mobile Insights
  • Technical Achievement Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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