An excerpt of ‘Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry,’ on the fatal division between Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie
The BlackBerry founder on quantum technology and how it could change the world
Paul Wells explains after his visit to the Quantum Valley
Where else will you find Conrad Black, Céline Dion and Stephen Lewis on one list?
RIM founder’s gifts now total $123 million
Strategic blunders, reckless pride and bad luck unravelled it all
RIM’s co-CEOs are taking a big step away from the spotlight
A major network outage and investor unrest has Research In Motion vowing that it will fight back
A murderess goes to school, Toronto city hall smells a rat and Michaele Salahi’s husband stops believin’
With investors and customers losing faith, its fate may rest in a promised ‘superphone’
“One rarely has to wait long at Perimeter before somebody comes along with a gift of money,” I wrote in September in my account of a month at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo. Today will be another such day. But not nearly routine, even by the standards of such days.
Supremely useful low-tech wages battle against supremely useful high-tech