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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 18: Actor Stephen Baldwin attends the Cinema Society & Blackberry Bold screening after party for 'Haywire' at Sons of Essex on January 18, 2012 in New York City.

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    BlackBerry maker Research in Motion 's co-CEOs, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis , announced Sunday they would step down as co-CEOs of the once-iconic company that has struggled to compete in recent years.The RIM founders will be replaced by Thorsten Hei   Read more »

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    To understand what ails BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd in the U.S. market, just ask eBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe .The world's biggest online auction site had about a hundred engineers developing new iterations of eBay 's shopping app fo   Read more »

  • RIM to offer security features on iPhone, Androids

    BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is seeking to cash in as companies switch to rival smartphones with a new tool that offers some of its important security features for sexier devices like the iPhone.The company said on Tuesday that it will launch its   Read more »

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About BlackBerry

The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1997 as a two-way pager. The more commonly known smartphone Blackberry, which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services was released in 2002. It is an example of a convergent device. Developed by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM), it delivers information over the wireless data networks of mobile phone service companies. BlackBerry first made headway in the marketplace by concentrating on e-mail. RIM currently offers BlackBerry e-mail service to non-BlackBerry devices, such as the Palm Treo, through the BlackBerry Connect software. The original BlackBerry device had a monochrome display, but all current models have color displays.

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