Jim Balsillie
Jim Balsillie
James Laurence "Jim" Balsillieis a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and former co-CEO of the Canadian company Research In Motion. He is also the founder of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canadian International Counciland the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Following his retirement as co-CEO of RIM in January 2012, Balsillie assumed a director role on RIM's Board of Directors. In March 2012, he resigned from the Board due to strategic differences with RIM's new leader and CEO, Thorsten Heins, who...
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Obviously, our business is growing and accelerating and strong,
We've been working in a Palm/Treo partnership for a while.
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As we put this lengthy and complicated litigation behind us, we extend our sincere gratitude to all of our customers and supporters for their patience and loyalty.
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It's a software upgrade that we're very, very comfortable with and we've done focus groups with and we're just finishing testing,
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It's onward and upward. The prudent thing for all the stakeholders was to put this behind us.
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It really is a quantum leap forward in the performance for the user both in voice and in data. The speed of it is really a system experience.
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It makes your BlackBerry perform just like your desktop phone.
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The remainder of fiscal 2006 is shaping up to be extremely robust and we are on track to surpass $2 billion in annual revenue for the first time in our history,
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You tend not to have your strong growth in the summertime. You tend to get your turbo charging in the fall.
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Although our litigation has certainly been pulled into the spotlight recently, we remain intensely focused on serving our customers and partners and maintaining our longstanding culture of innovation.
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With the litigation behind us, we're looking forward to building on the momentum we're seeing in early (fiscal) 2007.
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We are pleased to expand our relationship with Yahoo! to provide BlackBerry customers with new and enhanced access to Yahoo! services around the world. Our collaboration with Yahoo! will deliver increasingly rich content and services, including enhanced support for Yahoo! Mail, to BlackBerry customers in over sixty countries.
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Would I do a license today that would protect our ecosystem at the rates they said? Absolutely. Just to get it done with, absolutely. But would it last for the next 10 to 20 years and not give me protection for my business as it evolves? Not in a million years.
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What they're really trying to say is, 'Are we approaching maturity in this market?' And my response is ... we're the farthest thing from maturity in this market.