RIM: BlackBerry Storm was Vodafone's brainwave
News RIM co-chief executive Mike Lazaridis, and Vodafone's global director of terminals Jens Schulte-Bockum, were in London yesterday to show off the device. Last summer Vodafone] invited Mike [Lazaridis] to come over and join us for a half-day workshop...
[October 9, 2008, 9:06]
RIM CEO: 'China's RedBerry is no threat'
News People are getting fed up with it," said Mike Lazaridis, RIM's founder and co-chief executive. Customers however are sticking with RIM, Lazaridis said, despite warnings from Gartner that enterprises should resist deploying the BlackBerry for...
[May 19, 2006, 9:20]
BlackBerry Bold slims down with the 9700
News It employs around 200 staff, and on Wednesday RIM chief executive Mike Lazaridis said, "The hope is to get that up to around 500 people, over time". They put their first product out in under a year," Lazaridis said in a briefing session.
[October 21, 2009, 13:44]
RIM aims to broaden BlackBerry user base
News Speaking at RIM's Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) in Orlando, Florida, the BlackBerry maker's co-chief executive Mike Lazaridis said the company's vision is "no less than maintenance-free BlackBerry", or "the ability to deploy BlackBerrys...
[May 15, 2008, 9:03]
RIM sheds light on BlackBerry app stores
News Mike Lazaridis, RIM's co-founder and co-chief executive, has told the 700 registered developers at the first-ever BlackBerry Developer Conference that the key to successful BlackBerry development isn't just good programming but physics as well.
[October 22, 2008, 9:15]
RIM chief cautious about unlimited wireless data plans
News In a keynote address given at GlobalComm, a telecommunications trade show in Chicago, Mike Lazaridis told attendees that carriers need to be very careful how they roll out wireless Internet services. But Lazaridis warned that as wireless data usage...
[June 6, 2006, 9:05]
RIM execs to pay £50m in backdating settlement
News Co-chief executives Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, chief financial officer Dennis Kavelman and finance director Angelo Loberto have agreed to the C$92m payment, BlackBerry maker RIM said on Wednesday, in a statement announcing the settlement.
[February 9, 2009, 13:34]
RIM makes public patent reform calls
News In the letter attributed to RIM's co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, RIM said it was "pleased to put this matter behind us and remove any uncertainty from our customers' minds". Research In Motion took out a full-page...
[March 15, 2006, 8:25]
BlackBerry goes global
News The new two-way messaging devices, which were demonstrated on Wednesday, are designed to "complement the increasing power of new 2.5G wireless networks worldwide," RIM co-chief executive Mike Lazaridis said in a release.
[October 16, 2002, 15:08]
BlackBerry gears up for new wave of apps
News Push email paved the way for the early success of this market, but mobile applications will drive the next phase," said Mike Lazaridis, RIM's co-chief executive, on Wednesday. The range of applications available for BlackBerry devices looks set to...
[March 28, 2007, 16:50]
RIM unveils first super-3G BlackBerry
News The new BlackBerry Bold represents a tremendous step forward in business-grade smartphones and lives up to its name with incredible speed, power and functionality, all wrapped in a beautiful and confident design," said RIM president Mike Lazaridis...
[May 12, 2008, 13:30]
RIM takes ZDNet UK on a magical pixie ride
Blog The head wizard, chuckling Mike Lazaridis, benevolently ushered us into the most secret of grottos, where gumdrops flew around the air, as if by magic. Well, I'm here in Bochum, Germany, on a press trip with Research In Motion.
[October 21, 2009, 10:28]
RIM announces BlackBerry PBX functionality
News This new developer tool meets the needs of the .Net developer community, as well as enterprise customers, by enabling the development of BlackBerry applications within the familiar framework of Visual Studio," said Mike Lazaridis, president and co...
[May 9, 2007, 17:41]
Big Blue BlackBerry Pie
Blog RIM's CEO Mike Lazaridis has been quoted recently as saying that, “Organisations are embracing social networking tools to improve productivity and enable workers to find the experts and information within their organisations that can help them get...
[April 23, 2008, 9:48]
RIM chairman quits over stock options
News Balsillie and co-chief executive Mike Lazaridis have also "voluntarily offered to assist RIM in defraying costs incurred in connection with the review and the restatement" by contributing up to five million Canadian dollars (£2.2m) each.
[March 6, 2007, 12:11]
Is the BlackBerry your next pager?
News RIM, based in Waterloo, Ontario, was founded by Mike Lazaridis in 1984 when he was a student at the University of Waterloo. The once-ubiquitous pager is fast being squeezed out of the market by ever-cheaper cell phones and more-capable handheld...
[May 4, 2000, 9:45]
BlackBerry unveils Java tools
News The majority of our BlackBerry Enterprise Server customers have already begun supporting wireless data applications beyond email, and version 4.0 provides significant enhancements to support this trend," Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of RIM, said in a...
[December 1, 2004, 8:30]
Founders at Work review
Reviews Mike Lazaridis founded RIM as a contracting company; when they were asked to write a wireless data network they thought up Blackberry. Starting a company is free - if you have a friend who's a lawyer, Arthur van Hoff tells her.
[June 19, 2008, 14:59]
