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Footnotes for Chapter Two
- Interview: Beyond the BlackBerry, New Scientist, 12 March 2008 by Paul Marks
- Laura Pratt, Persistence in Motion, Profit Magazine, May 2001
- Interview: Beyond the BlackBerry, New Scientist, 12 March 2008 by Paul Marks
- Laura Pratt, Persistence in Motion, Profit Magazine, May 2001
- RIM today hires over 600 co-op, intern and summer students every year from local and national universities and colleges. Mike Lazaridis often tells people that he “built his factory right next to the mine,” referring to nearby University of Waterloo, Wilfred Laurier and Conestoga College.
- Interview: Beyond the BlackBerry, New Scientist, 12 March 2008 by Paul Marks
- Mike Lazaridis Research in Motion, by Amy Gunderson, Inc.com
- Laura Pratt, Persistence in Motion, Profit Magazine, May 2001
- Interview: Beyond the BlackBerry, New Scientist, 12 March 2008 by Paul Marks
- Laura Pratt, Persistence in Motion, Profit Magazine, May 2001
- Laura Pratt, Persistence in Motion, Profit Magazine, May 2001
- See Rob Fraser's Report on Mobitex
- Laura Pratt, Persistence in Motion, Profit Magazine, May 2001
- See: Real World Services for the Technological Elite
- Meyer says, "The protocols being converted (from one to the other), were the Hayes AT commands (the de facto standard for land line modems) and the Mobitex packet protocol. This enabled Lotus cc:Mail to run pretty much unmodified on a HP95LX.
- Bill Frezza's Photos
- Laura Pratt, Persistence in Motion, Profit Magazine, May 2001
- In Canada, Mobitex is still handled by Rogers, and by Velocita Wireless in the US. The network is used for mission-critical dispatch, telemetry, POS, DB-access, Internet access, e-mail and interactive messaging. The system operates on 900 MHz frequency bands and covers major urban areas all across North America.
- Bill Frezza's Photos
- Industry Canada. Innovation Secretariat. Case 7. Research In Motion Limited
- now part of 3Com
- Laura Pratt, Persistence in Motion, Profit Magazine, May 2001
- Infoworld, February 27, 2002
- David Fielding, Leaps of Faith, Globe and Mail, April 25, 2008
- RAM was sold and renamed BellSouth Wireless Data in 1995 and later became Cingular Interactive when BellSouth and SBC formed Cingular Wireless (now renamed AT&T)
- Feb. 26, 1997
- One RIM veteran told me that "It was a decent device. For years, RIM left massive boxes of Duracell AA batteries around for workers who still used the 950 and 850. Every Christmas the batteries would disappear rapidly. RIM probably saved a bundle when they finally replaced all of the older devices with ones that would charge."
- Business 2.0 Interview, 2004
- See Pagers Get Smart. Interactive Paging became known as Interactive Messaging Plus(sm) when BellSouth and SBC formed Cingular Wireless.
- At the time of writing, RIM still supports the old Mobitex devices including the only Java-based device they created for the Mobitex network, the data-only 5790.
- Meet Tech's Product Name Guru
- Laura Pratt, Persistence in Motion, Profit Magazine, May 2001
- Words like BlackBerry, MySpace, YouTube and LinkedIn are all examples of CamelCase, or forming compound words by capitalising each chunk to preserve its identity. This produces "camel" words with a range of "humps". CamelCase has been around since the 1950s in a few brand names, such as CinemaScope.
- Industry Canada. Innovation Secretariat. Case 7. Research In Motion Limited
- Laura Pratt, Persistence in Motion, Profit Magazine, May 2001
- according to National Bank Financial analyst Deepak Chopra
- Industry Canada Innovation Secretariat. Case 7. Research In Motion Limited
- RIM eventually developed its own synching software and started competing directly with Intellisync. The company was acquired by Nokia in 2006.
- Industry Canada Innovation Secretariat. Case 7. Research In Motion Limited
