Canada’s Research in Motion has announced its new BlackBerry Bold 9000, the company’s first new smartphone platform in two years. The BlackBerry Bold takes solid aim at the business and professional ... MSN: Rise and fall of BlackBerry: How the mobile phone giant destroyed itself BlackBerry (originally Research In Motion, RIM) pioneered mobile email and smartphones in the early 2000s.

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