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The first Blackberry was release in 1999 and was based on hardware developed in 1998 by RIM and Ericsson for the Mobitex wirless network pager system.

RIM as a company was founded in 1984 in Ontario, Canada by Mike Lazaridis and has gone from strength to strength now with a yearly revenue of US$3.04 billion (based on fiscal 2006) and now has over 6000 employess (as of Q1 2007).

For information there stock prices can be tracked on:

* TSX (tsx.com) - known as RIM * NASDAQ (quotes.nasdaq.com) - known as RIMM

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