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In the latest episode of 15 | A Film Review Podcast, Luke and Dan continue to watch some of the most acclaimed films of 2023. The pair of films they review in full this week are BlackBerry and Anatomy of a Fall. Matt Johnson's BlackBerry is a fictional account of the creation of the BlackBerry line of mobile phones by co-founders Douglas Fregin and Mike Lazaridis, and investor Jim Balsillie, played by Johnson, Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton respectively. The Oscar-nominated Anatomy of a Fall is a French legal drama, directed by Justine Triet, that stars Sandra Hüller as a writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband's death. At the 76th Cannes Film Festival, it won the Palme d'Or and has also gained significant international success, winning two Golden Globes, and being nominated for seven BAFTAs and five Oscars.Click here to watch the podcast instead.Support the showObsessed with films too? See how your opinions match up against the boys'. Here's Luke's Letterboxd account and here's Dan's Letterboxd account.

Final Draft's Write On Podcast sits down with Blackberry writers Matt Johnson and Matthew Miller to talk about how they wrote this epic story of the rise and fall of the world's first portable email machine.  Johnson and Miller loosely adapted the script from Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff's book Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry. The film Blackberry is a bio-pic dramedy that follows the fictional story of the Blackberry creator Mike Lazaridis, played by Jay Baruchel and his main investor played by Glenn Howerton. “Because we had the book, it was the blueprint for the movie. It has so many of the facts and details that we extrapolated and then sort of placed in the script," says Miller. The production of the movie was a bit like the push to get Blackberry into the marketplace - there was a lot of hustle.  “The structure of the movie as it stands came from needing to reuse the same locations over, and over again,” says Johnson.  We sat down to hear about this wild ride from true story to script to budgetary concerns and on-screen production. Click to hear more and listen to the podcast. 

O filme Blackberry, que tá mandando seus SMS no mundo todo desde maio desse ano e só agora chega no Brasil (obrigado, Diamond Films!), conta em detalhes e num tom quase documental a ascensão e queda do celular Blackberry e da empresa canadense Research in Motion. Seus co-CEOs, Mike Lazaridis e Jim Balsillie, foram dois dos empresários mais famosos do Canadá, e a região de Waterloo tornou-se o equivalente canadense ao Vale do Silício.::E bem, se você estava comendo minhoca, engatinhando ou talvez esperando papai e mamãe tomarem uma atitude, coisa de 20 anos atrás os pagers e posteriormente os telefones Blackberry foram onipresentes nos primeiros anos do século 21 e sinônimo de status, utilizados até mesmo pelo então presidente norte-americano Barack Obama! Mas, como o tempo, o ferro e as uvas passam, a chegada do iPhone em 2007 acabou sendo o fim do reinado da Blackberry. ::A grande mente por trás dessa produção é o canadense Matt Johnson, que dirigiu, co-escreveu o roteiro e interpreta Doug, um dos sócios da empresa, certamente o principal alívio cômico do filme.No elenco, além de Matt, destaque para o comediante Jay Baruschel ("Os Brutamentes" e "É o Fim" e também Glen Howerton ("It's always sunny in Philadelphia"), que apesar de ostentar a careca mais fake dos últimos tempos, se sai muito bem aqui.::Coloque seu fone, aumente o volume e Senta que lá vem Spoiler!

Do you love watching Glenn Howerton losing his mind? Well, do I have a movie for you. Blackberry stars Glenn Howerton and Jay Baruchel as Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis about the rise and fall of a product that has way more significance that you probably realize. Co-Starring and directed by Matthew Johnson, check out my review of Blackberry! The Reel Pineapple is your one-stop shop for the latest movie reviews, trailer breakdowns, social commentary, and everything in between. Shoot us an email at jhunter@thereelpineapple.com Subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts at The Reel Pineapple! Rate, Like, Share, & Subscribe! Follow us on all of our socials! linktr.ee/jhunterreelpineapple

This week on The Movie Podcast, Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony are LIVE from FAN EXPO Canada in Toronto with 5x Canadian Screen Award Nominee Jay McCarrol. Thank you to our friends at The Sonar Network for inviting The Movie Podcast to partner with them on this panel. BlackBerry is now available on Blu-Ray, DVD, Digital, and everywhere you rent movies.Watch and listen to The Movie Podcast now on all podcast feeds, YouTube, and TheMoviePodcast.caGet a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/themoviepodcastContact: hello@themoviepodcast.caTHE MOVIE PODCAST ON ET CANADA!THE MOVIE PODCAST MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE!FOLLOW USDaniel on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdShahbaz on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdAnthony on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdThe Movie Podcast on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, and YouTube

A finales de los 90', mientras Nokia fardaba de su indestructible móvil 5125 y el éxito de su juego Snake, una compañía discreta, de origen canadiense, estaba saliendo a la luz. BlackBerry llegó al universo de las tecnológicas de la mano de un dispositivo diferente. Que apenas entraba en un bolsillo y que, entre otros, contaba con un teclado que vino a revolucionar el mercado de la telefonía móvil. Si bien estos terminales quedaron obsoletos en 2022, hoy renacen, pero a modo de un homenaje, en una película que lleva su propio nombre.En una época donde el mundo 'touch' aún no estaba tan desarrollado como hoy, pese a los esfuerzos de Palm (PDA), y la telefonía móvil se sumergía en la democratización y acceso a este tipo de dispositivos, BlackBerry se posicionaba en 1999 con su primer teléfono, el modelo 850, que funcionaba a pilas. Se trataba de un dispositivo que era una mezcla de mensáfono o 'busca', un teléfono móvil y una PDA, pero su mayor particularidad era que incluía un teclado físico (QWERTY). En el corto tiempo de su lanzamiento, fue ganando adeptos, como el mismo Barack Obama y personas importantes del mundo de los negocios, a quienes les atrajo la interfaz donde podían acceder a un calendario ejecutivo, al correo electrónico y a un servicio de mensajería propio con el que contaban las BlackBerry, el BB Messenger. De esta forma, en 2008 el precio por acción de la compañía llegó a máximos de 147 dólares, en lo que fue el mejor momento de la compañía. Previo a los smartphones, esto era algo poco menos que revolucionario para ejecutivos que necesitaban estar en contacto durante toda la jornada pese a estar fuera de la oficina, así fueron desarrollando en los próximos 16 años equipos con altas tecnologías como los tradicionales modelos 7290, Pearl, Curve y Bold. Fin del romanticismo del teclado tras 16 años En 2016, tras el anuncio de que TCL se quedaba con la licencia para fabricar smartphones bajo la marca BlackBerry, y que llevarían sistema operativo Android, fue marcando el fin del romanticismo de sus admiradores y su próxima debacle. Además, con el nacimiento del iPhone, quedaba atrás la innovación del teclado físico para marcar la tendencia hacia el 'touch' y un sistema operativo más eficaz. Fue en enero de 2022 que los teléfonos móviles de la marca canadiense quedaron obsoletos, cuando la firma dejó completamente de darles soportes, seis años antes había dejado de fabricarlos. Hoy la apuesta de la compañía, que no ha perdido el nombre, está enfocada en el desarrollo de software de ciberseguridad y ofrece servicios para empresas. Actualmente, han logrado ingresos totales de 656 millones y la historia de BlackBerry llegó a la pantalla grande. Los 'frikis' que no supieron vender su invento Detrás de esta revolución digital, están las figuras de Mike Lazaridis y Douglas Fregin. Ambos fundaron Research in Motion (RIM) en 1984. Tras desarrollar el Interactive Pager 900, terminaron creando la primera BlackBerry en 1999, en la que incluso IBM invirtió con un capital de 10 millones. La historia de la compañía de móviles con teclado, que ha llegado al cine este 2023, retrata el "ascenso meteórico" y "la caída catastrófica" del primer teléfono inteligente del mundo enfocado a los empresarios, de la mano de dos 'frikis' de las tecnologías, pero poco hábiles en los negocios, a los que les tocó vivir un viaje vertiginoso a través de un Silicon Valley despiadadamente competitivo que terminó con uno de los mejores inventos de los últimos 30 años.

BLACKBERRY tells the story of Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin, two Canadian tech geniuses who believe that they've cracked the secret to the smartphone. However, they remain deep in debt and lack the swagger necessary to break into the industry. In response, the two hire recently unemployed tyrant, Jim Balsillie, to help guide the ship into the rough waters of the business world. As BlackBerry slowly starts to make noise in the cell phone market, so too do the problems behind the scenes begin to grow more dangerous. This week, Robert Bellissimo (@RobertBellissimoAtTheMovies ) and Dave Voigt (@intheseats7388 ) return to talk about what defines Canadian cinema and whether or not someone can win with 'nice'.

Sorti le 12 mai 2023  au Canada (pas en France pour l'instant), le film "BlackBerry" retrace l'histoire du mythique téléphone à touches BlackBerry qui a connu son heure de gloire au début des 2000. Mon ami Bruno Guglielminetti, producteur du podcast Mon Carnet, donne son avis et nous rappelle l'histoire de cette fierté canadienne. Au Canada, BlackBerry est une fierté nationale. Créée il y a près de 40 ans, en mars 1984, l'entreprise RIM (Research In Motion) deviendra célèbre 15 ans plus tard en lançant le BlackBerry. Cet appareil révolutionnaire pour l'époque permettait de recevoir facilement ses emails en exploitant les tout nouveaux réseaux de communication mobile.  Particularité : le Blackberry était doté d'un clavier à touches. Ce sera l'outil préféré des professionnels, puis des plus jeunes en raison de sa célèbre messagerie instantanée sécurisée BBM. BlackBerry dominera le marché en pendant des années, avec plusieurs modèles, jusqu'à l'apparition de l'iPhone avec son écran tactile. Après avoir tenté, sans succès, de prendre le virage du tactile, BlackBerry disparaîtra en temps que marque de téléphones mobiles.  Le film intitulé tout simplement « Blackberry » retrace l'histoire de RIM et l'aventure de RIM, autour du son bouillonnant fondateur, Mike Lazaridis. Il est réalisé par Matt Johnson et met en vedette Jay Baruchel et Glenn Howerton. 

Jay Baruchel ("How to Train Your Dragon") and Glenn Howerton ("A.P. Bio") star in the thrilling new true story drama "BlackBerry", which IFC Films is releasing in theaters nationwide this Friday May 12th. Baruchel plays BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis, and Howerton plays Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsille, in this entertaining and fascinating depiction of the rise and fall of the cell phone giant. On this LCJ Q&A Podcast episode, Baruchel and Howerton discuss BlackBerry devices and their dynamic roles. Baruchel also shares what the "Dragon" saga has meant to him. (Interview Contains Adult Language.)

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by MATT JOHNSON, GLENN HOWERTON, and JAY BARUCHEL of BLACKBERRY, the story of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the two men that charted the course of the spectacular rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone. BlackBerry releases May 12, 2023 exclusively in theatres by Elevation Pictures in Canada and IFC Films in the United States.Watch and listen to The Movie Podcast interview now on all podcast feeds, YouTube, and TheMoviePodcast.caGet a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/themoviepodcastContact: hello@themoviepodcast.caTHE MOVIE PODCAST ON ET CANADA!THE MOVIE PODCAST MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE!FOLLOW USDaniel on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdShahbaz on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdAnthony on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdThe Movie Podcast on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, and YouTube

This episode of The Movie Podcast is brought to you by MUBI, a global curated streaming service showing exceptional films from around the globe. Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/themoviepodcast. Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Matt Johnson's BLACKBERRY, the story of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the two men that charted the course of the spectacular rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone. The film stars Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton in the lead roles as Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, respectively. It also stars Johnson, Rich Sommer, Michael Ironside, Martin Donovan, Michelle Giroux, SungWon Cho, Saul Rubinek, and Cary Elwes. BlackBerry releases May 12, 2023 exclusively in theatres by Elevation Pictures in Canada and IFC Films in the United States.Watch and listen to The Movie Podcast review now on all podcast feeds, YouTube, and TheMoviePodcast.caGet a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/themoviepodcastContact: hello@themoviepodcast.caTHE MOVIE PODCAST ON ET CANADA!THE MOVIE PODCAST MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE!FOLLOW USDaniel on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdShahbaz on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdAnthony on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdThe Movie Podcast on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, and YouTube

On this week's Richard Crouse Show: It's hard to remember now, but there was a time when we were not tethered to our smart phones. A new film, “BlackBerry,” starring Jay Baruchel and Matt Johnson, and now playing in theatres, vividly recreates the scrappy story of friendship, betrayal and hubris that began our obsession with our phones. Today, we going to focus on that story, courtesy of the film BlackBerry, which opens in theatres on May 12. There was a time when the Canadian made, odd little phone, with a QWERTY keyboard, encrypted messaging and low data cost, was a status symbol, used by some of the world' most powerful people. In the hands of everyone from President Barack Obama and Justin Timberlake to Katy Perry and Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, the phones helped the world communicate in a whole new way. They were the original smart phones, which makes their Canadian creators Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin, visionaries, the men who gave us the future. Recently I sat down with BlackBerry co-writer, co-star and director Matt Johnson, and Jay Baruchel who stars as the awkward genius behind the BlackBerry tech, Mike Lazaridis. Matt is the director of The Dirties, which won Best Narrative Feature at the Slamdance Film Festival, Operation Avalanche, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and mockumentary television series Nirvanna the Band the Show. You know Jay from his voice role as Hiccup Haddock in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, and for roles in Knocked Up, Tropic Thunder, The Trotsky, Fanboys, She's Out of My League, Goon, This Is the End, and the action-fantasy film The Sorcerer's Apprentice. You can also see him as the host of We're All Gonna Die (Even Jay Baruchel) on Crave. BlackBerry is the story of the company Research in Motion, Jim Balsillie, the hotheaded businessman, played by Glenn Howerton, who was there for the rise and fall of the iconic company. “BlackBerry” isn't just a business story or the story of innovation. Instead, it is an underdog tale that emphasizes the human foibles that led to RIM's downfall, not just the financial ones. We began the interview with the idea of talking about the film, but were soon sidetracked by a discussion inspired by the lessons learned from the film, about what it means to be Canadian, why we don't celebrate our own stories and much more. Stay tuned, it often doesn't sound like an interview as much as a conversation we might have had over a drink or two. Like the movie we were supposed to concentrate on, before the conversation took a few left turns, the interview is passionate, patriotic, funny and not quite what you might expect.

เป็นเรื่องราวที่สุดมันส์ของบริษัทที่โค่นยักษ์ใหญ่ระดับโลกก่อนที่จะยอมจำนนต่อกองกำลังที่โหดเหี้ยมจาก Silicon Valley ที่นำโดย Steve Jobs แห่ง Apple ตัวอย่างของความล้มเหลวในธุรกิจสมัยใหม่ การวางกลยุทธ์ที่พลาดพลั้งในธุรกิจที่กำลังกลายเป็นตลาดขนาดยักษ์ ที่สามารถทำให้องค์กรล่มสลายได้ Losing the Signal ได้เปิดเผยเรื่องราววงในของการผงาดขึ้นของบริษัทที่เริ่มต้นจากร้านขายเบเกิลในออนแทรีโอ หัวใจหลักของหนังสือเล่มนี้คือ คือการร่วมงานกันที่ไม่น่าเป็นไปได้ระหว่างวิศวกรผู้มีวิสัยทัศน์อย่าง Mike Lazaridis และ Jim Balsillie ผู้สำเร็จการศึกษาจาก Harvard Business School พวกเขาได้ร่วมกันออกแบบอุปกรณ์อีเมลพกพารุ่นบุกเบิกที่กลายเป็นเครื่องมือที่ประธานาธิบดีและซีอีโอระดับท็อปต่างเลือกใช้  และการเติบโตที่ไร้ซึ่งระเบียบแบบแผนทำให้บริษัทกลายเป็นอัมพาตเมื่อเผชิญกับบททดสอบที่โหดเหี้ยมที่สุด นั่นคือ การเข้ามาของ Apple และ Google ในโทรศัพท์มือถือ เลือกฟังกันได้เลยนะครับ อย่าลืมกด Follow ติดตาม PodCast ช่อง Geek Forever's Podcast ของผมกันด้วยนะครับ ========================= ร่วมสนับสนุน ด.ดล Blog และ Geek Forever Podcast เพื่อให้เรามีกำลังใจในการผลิต Content ดี ๆ ให้กับท่าน https://www.tharadhol.com/become-a-supporter/ ——————————————– ติดตาม ด.ดล Blog ผ่าน Line OA เพียงคลิก : https://lin.ee/aMEkyNA ——————————————– ไม่พลาดข่าวสารผ่านทาง Email จาก ด.ดล Blog : https://www.getrevue.co/profile/tharadhol ——————————————– Geek Forever Club พื้นที่ของการแลกเปลี่ยนข้อมูลข่าวสาร ความรู้ ด้านธุรกิจ เทคโนโลยีและวิทยาศาสตร์ ใหม่ ๆ ที่น่าสนใจ https://www.facebook.com/groups/geek.forever.club/ ========================= ช่องทางติดตาม ด.ดล Blog เพิ่มเติมได้ที่ Fanpage : www.facebook.com/tharadhol.blog Blockdit : www.blockdit.com/tharadhol.blog Twitter : www.twitter.com/tharadhol Instragram : instragram.com/tharadhol TikTok : tiktok.com/@geek.forever Youtube : www.youtube.com/c/mrtharadhol Linkedin : www.linkedin.com/in/tharadhol Website : www.tharadhol.com

In hilarious fashion, BlackBerry chronicles the rise and sharp decline of the world's first smartphone. We down with writer-director and star Matt Johnson while he was attending the UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival to discuss the film. ----more---- Jay Baruchel plays the naive inventor of the BlackBerry, Mike Lazaridis; Only Sunny in Philadelphia's Glenn Howerton is fantastic at Jim Balsillie, the shark-like businessman who helps Mike sell BlackBerry to the world; and Johnson himself plays Doug Fregin, the vest-wearing tech bro who started the company with Lazaridis but would rather have a good time than be in business. The film is a delight, and a world away from tragic moral tales like The Social Network or Jobs. Johnson's approach is less ostentatious, bringing these tech giants down to a human level and telling a story full of wit and pathos.  Glasgow Film Festival runs 1-12 March, get full details and tickets at glasgowfilm.org TIMESTAMPS: Glasgow, Limmy and deep-fried pizza (1:22) Why make a film about the deeply uncool BlackBerry (3:38) Casting Always Sunny's Glenn Howerton (7:47) The film's 'fly-on-the-wall' style (10:30) Borrowing from Robert Altman (14:12) Making an honest story about capitalism (14:55) Johnson's similarity to all three main characters (18:33) If you like The Cineskinny, tell your pals! Leave us a five-star review! Share the episode on socials! Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Ein Jahr nach dem Launch des iPhones begutachtet Mike Lazaridis, der CEO von Research in Motion, 2008 das neueste Gerät von BlackBerry: ein Handy mit Touchscreen, das mit dem iPhone gleichziehen soll. Dieses Modell wird jedoch mehr als nur Scherben hinterlassen. Denn der lukrative Vertrag von RIM mit Verizon steht auf der Kippe.Doch während die neuen BlackBerrys den Innovations-Vorsprung der iPhones aufholen sollen, zieht Apple im Kampf um Marktanteile schon seinen nächsten Trumpf aus dem Ärmel. RIM wird davon kalt erwischt.Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

Im Jahr 2005 entscheidet sich Steve Jobs für einen von zwei Prototypen für ein Apple-Handy. Seine Wahl wird wahrscheinlich eines der meistverkauften Technik-Produkte aller Zeiten sein. Wenn die Ingenieure von Apple einen funktionierenden, gut zu bedienenden Touchscreen entwickeln können, steht dem Erfolg des iPhones nichts mehr im Wege. Viele tausend Kilometer entfernt in Waterloo, Kanada, können sich Mike Lazaridis und Jim Balsillie von RIM kaum vor Aufträgen retten. Bald jedoch schadet ein großer Aktien-Skandal dem Ruf des BlackBerry und die Co-CEOs geraten darüber in einen desaströsen Streit.Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

New York City, am 11. September 2001. In Folge der Anschläge am World Trade Center brechen sämtliche Telekommunikationsnetze zusammen. Nur das Netz des BlackBerry-Herstellers Research in Motion (RIM) läuft noch. Im Moment einer der größten Katastrophen der neueren Geschichte bewährt sich BlackBerry und gewinnt damit viele Anhänger von der Wall Street bis zum US-Kongress. Die beiden Co-Geschäftsführer von RIM, Mike Lazaridis und Jim Balsillie, haben das erste mobile Endgerät entwickelt, mit dem geschäftliche E-Mails auf einem tragbaren Gerät abrufbar sind. Eines Tages bekommt Apple-Gründer Steve Jobs den klobigen BlackBerry in die Hände und erkennt seine Chance. Damit beginnt die Rivalität der beiden innovativen Unternehmen.Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

Lars Magnus Ericsson was working for the Swedish government that made telegraph equipment in the 1870s when he started a little telegraph repair shop in 1976. That was the same year the telephone was invented. After fixing other people's telegraphs and then telephones he started a company making his own telephone equipment. He started making his own equipment and by the 1890s was shipping gear to the UK. As the roaring 20s came, they sold stock to buy other companies and expanded quickly. Early mobile devices used radios to connect mobile phones to wired phone networks and following projects like ALOHANET in the 1970s they expanded to digitize communications, allowing for sending early forms of text messages, the way people might have sent those telegraphs when old Lars was still alive and kicking. At the time, the Swedish state-owned Televerket Radio was dabbling in this space and partnered with Ericsson to take first those messages then as email became a thing, email, to people wirelessly using the 400 to 450 MHz range in Europe and 900 MHz in the US. That standard went to the OSI and became a 1G wireless packet switching network we call Mobitex. Mike Lazaridis was born in Istanbul and moved to Canada in 1966 when he was five, attending the University of Waterloo in 1979. He dropped out of school to take a contract with General Motors to build a networked computer display in 1984. He took out a loan from his parents, got a grant from the Canadian government, and recruited another electrical engineering student, Doug Fregin from the University of Windsor, who designed the first circuit boards. to join him starting a company they called Research in Motion. Mike Barnstijn joined them and they were off to do research.  After a few years doing research projects, they managed to build up a dozen employees and a million in revenues. They became the first Mobitex provider in America and by 1991 shipped the first Mobitex device. They brought in James Balsillie as co-CEO, to handle corporate finance and business development in 1992, a partnership between co-CEOs that would prove fruitful for 20 years.  Some of those work-for-hire projects they'd done involved reading bar codes so they started with point-of-sale, enabling mobile payments and by 1993 shipped RIMGate, a gateway for Mobitex. Then a Mobitex point-of-sale terminal and finally with the establishment of the PCMCIA standard, a  PCMCIP Mobitex modem they called Freedom. Two-way paging had already become a thing and they were ready to venture out of PoS systems. So  in 1995, they took a $5 million investment to develop the RIM 900 OEM radio modem. They also developed a pager they called the Inter@ctive Pager 900 that was capable of  two-way messaging the next year. Then they went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1997. The next year, they sold a licensing deal to IBM for the 900 for $10M dollars. That IBM mark of approval is always a sign that a company is ready to play in an enterprise market. And enterprises increasingly wanted to keep executives just a quick two-way page away. But everyone knew there was a technology convergence on the way. They worked with Ericsson to further the technology and over the next few years competed with SkyTel in the interactive pager market. Enter The Blackberry They knew there was something new coming. Just as the founders know something is coming in Quantum Computing and run a fund for that now. They hired a marketing firm called Lexicon Branding to come up with a name and after they saw the keys on the now-iconic keyboard, the marketing firm suggested BlackBerry. They'd done the research and development and they thought they had a product that was special. So they released the first BlackBerry 850 in Munich in 1999. But those were still using radio networks and more specifically the DataTAC network. The age of mobility was imminent, although we didn't call it that yet. Handspring and Palm each went public in 2000.  In 2000, Research In Motion brought its first cellular phone product in the BlackBerry 957, with push email and internet capability. But then came the dot com bubble. Some thought the Internet might have been a fad and in fact might disappear. But instead the world was actually ready for that mobile convergence. Part of that was developing a great operating system for the time when they released the BlackBerry OS the year before. And in 2000 the BlackBerry was named Product of the Year by InfoWorld.  The new devices took the market by storm and shattered the previous personal information manager market, with shares of that Palm company dropping by over 90% and Palm OS being setup as it's own corporation within a couple of years. People were increasingly glued to their email. While the BlackBerry could do web browsing and faxing over the internet, it was really the integrated email access, phone, and text messaging platform that companies like General Magic had been working on as far back as the early 1990s. The Rise of the BlackBerry The BlackBerry was finally the breakthrough mobile product everyone had been expecting and waiting for. Enterprise-level security, integration with business email like Microsoft's Exchange Server, a QWERTY keyboard that most had grown accustomed to, the option to use a stylus, and a simple menu made the product an instant smash success. And by instant we mean after five years of research and development and a massive financial investment. The Palm owned the PDA market. But the VII cost $599 and the BlackBerry cost $399 at the time (which was far less than the $675 Inter@ctive Pager had cost in the 1990s). The Palm also let us know when we had new messages using the emerging concept of push notifications. 2000 had seen the second version of the BlackBerry OS and their AOL Mobile Communicator had helped them spread the message that the wealthy could have access to their data any time. But by 2001 other carriers were signing on to support devices and BlackBerry was selling bigger and bigger contracts. 5,000 devices, 50,000 devices, 100,000 devices. And a company called Kasten Chase stepped in to develop a secure wireless interface to the Defense Messaging System in the US, which opened up another potential two million people in the defense industry They expanded the service to cover more and more geographies in 2001 and revenues doubled, jumping to 164,000 subscribers by the end of the year. That's when they added wireless downloads so could access all those MIME attachments in email and display them. Finally, reading PDFs on a phone with the help of GoAmerica Communications! And somehow they won a patent for the idea that a single email address could be used on both a mobile device and a desktop. I guess the patent office didn't understand why IMAP  was invented by Mark Crispin at Stanford in the 80s, or why Exchange allowed multiple devices access to the same mailbox. They kept inking contracts with other companies. AT&T added the BlackBerry in 2002 in the era of GSM. The 5810 was the first truly convergent BlackBerry that offered email and a phone in one device with seamless SMS communications. It shipped in the US and the 5820 in Europe and Cingular Wireless jumped on board in the US and Deutsche Telekom in Germany, as well as Vivendi in France, Telecom Italia in Italy, etc. The devices had inched back up to around $500 with service fees ranging from $40 to $100 plus pretty limited data plans. The Tree came out that year but while it was cool and provided a familiar interface to the legions of Palm users, it was clunky and had less options for securing communications. The NSA signed on and by the end of the year they were a truly global operation, raking in revenues of nearly $300 million.  The Buying Torndado They added web-based application in 2003, as well as network printing. They moved to a Java-based interface and added the 6500 series, adding a walkie-talkie function. But that 6200 series at around $200 turned out to be huge. This is when they went into that thing a lot of companies do - they started suing companies like Good and Handspring for infringing on patents they probably never should have been awarded. They eventually lost the cases and paid out tens of millions of dollars in damages. More importantly they took their eyes off innovating, a common mistake in the history of computing companies. Yet there were innovations. They released Blackberry Enterprise Server in 2004 then bolted on connectors to Exchange, Lotus Domino, and allowed for interfacing with XML-based APIs in popular enterprise toolchains of the day. They also later added support for GroupWise. That was one of the last solutions that worked with symmetric key cryptography I can remember using and initially required the devices be cradled to get the necessary keys to secure communications, which then worked over Triple-DES, common at the time. One thing we never liked was that messages did end up living at Research in Motion, even if encrypted at the time. This is one aspect that future types of push communications would resolve. And Microsoft Exchange's ActiveSync.  By 2005 there were CVEs filed for BlackBerry Enterprise Server, racking up 17 in the six years that product shipped up to 5.0 in 2010 before becoming BES 10 and much later Blackberry Enterprise Mobility Management, a cross-platform mobile device management solution. Those BES 4 and 5 support contracts, or T-Support, could cost hundreds of dollars per incident. Microsoft had Windows Mobile clients out that integrated pretty seamlessly with Exchange. But people loved their Blackberries. Other device manufacturers experimented with different modes of interactivity. Microsoft made APIs for pens and keyboards that flipped open. BlackBerry added a trackball in 2006, that was always kind of clunky. Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, and others were experimenting with new ways to navigate devices, but people were used to menus and even styluses. And they seemed to prefer a look and feel that seemed like what they used for the menuing control systems on HVAC controls, video games, and even the iPod.  The Eye Of The Storm A new paradigm was on the way. Apple's iPhone was released in 2007 and Google's Android OS in 2008. By then the BlackBerry Pearl was shipping and it was clear which devices were better. No one saw the two biggest threats coming. Apple was a consumer company. They were slow to add ActiveSync policies, which many thought would be the corporate answer to mobile management as group policies in Active Directory had become for desktops. Apple  and Google were slow to take the market, as BlackBerry continued to dominate the smartphone industry well into 2010, especially once then-president Barack Obama strong-armed the NSA into allowing him to use a special version of the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition for official communiques. Other world leaders followed suit, as did the leaders of global companies that had previously been luddites when it came to constantly being online. Even Eric Schmidt, then chairman of google loved his Crackberry in 2013, 5 years after the arrival of Android. Looking back, we can see a steady rise in iPhone sales up to the iPhone 4, released in 2010. Many still said they loved the keyboard on their BlackBerries. Organizations had built BES into their networks and had policies dating back to NIST STIGs. Research in Motion owned the enterprise and held over half the US market and a fifth of the global market. That peaked in 2011. BlackBerry put mobility on the map. But companies like AirWatch, founded in 2003 and  MobileIron, founded in 2007, had risen to take a cross-platform approach to the device management aspect of mobile devices. We call them Unified Endpoint Protection products today and companies could suddenly support BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and iPhones from a single console. Over 50 million Blackberries were being sold a year and the stock was soaring at over $230 a share.  Today, they hold no market share and their stock performance shows it. Even though they've pivoted to more of a device management company, given their decades of experience working with some of the biggest and most secure companies and governments in the world. The Fall Of The BlackBerry The iPhone was beautiful. It had amazing graphics and a full touch screen. It was the very symbol of innovation. The rising tide of the App Store also made it a developers playground (no pun intended). It was more expensive than the Blackberry, but while they didn't cater to the enterprise, they wedged their way in there with first executives and then anyone. Initially because of ActiveSync, which had come along in 1996 mostly to support Windows Mobile, but by Exchange Server 2003 SP 2 could do almost anything Outlook could do - provided software developers like Apple could make the clients work. So by 2011, Exchange clients could automatically locate a server based on an email address (or more to the point based on DNS records for the domain) and work just as webmail, which was open in almost every IIS implementation that worked with Exchange. And Office365 was released in 2011, paving the way to move from on-prem Exchange to what we now call “the cloud.” And Google Mail had been around for 7 years by then and people were putting it on the BlackBerry as well, blending home and office accounts on the same devices at times. In fact, Google licensed Exchange ActiveSync, or EAS in 2009 so support for Gmail was showing up on a variety of devices. BlackBerry had everything companies wanted. But people slowly moved to that new iPhone. Or Androids when decent models of phones started shipping with the OS on them. BlackBerry stuck by that keyboard, even though it was clear that people wanted full touchscreens. The BlackBerry Bold came out in 2009. BlackBerry had not just doubled down with the keyboard instead of full touchscreen, but they tripled down on it. They had released the Storm in 2008 and then the Storm in 2009 but they just had a different kind of customer. Albeit one that was slowly starting to retire. This is the hard thing about being in the buying tornado. We're so busy transacting that we can't think ahead to staying in the eye that we don't see how the world is changing outside of it.  As we saw with companies like Amdahl and Control Data, when we only focus on big customers and ignore the mass market we leave room for entrants in our industries who have more mass appeal. Since the rise of the independent software market following the IBM anti-trust cases, app developers have been a bellwether of successful platforms. And the iPhone revenue split was appealing to say the least.  Sales fell off fast. By 2012, the BlackBerry represented less than 6 percent of smartphones sold and by the start of 2013 that number dropped in half, falling to less than 1 percent in 2014. That's when the White House tested replacements for the Blackberry. There was a small bump in sales when they finally released a product that had competitive specs to the iPhone, but it was shortly lived. The Crackberry craze was officially over.  BlackBerry shot into the mainstream and brought the smartphone with them. They made the devices secure and work seamlessly in corporate environments and for those who could pay money to run BES or BIS. They proved the market and then got stuck in the Innovator's Dilemna. They became all about features that big customers wanted and needed. And so they missed the personal part of personal computing. Apple, as they did with the PC and then graphical user interfaces saw a successful technology and made people salivate over it. They saw how Windows had built a better sandbox for developers and built the best app delivery mechanism the world has seen to date. Google followed suit and managed to take a much larger piece of the market with more competitive pricing.  There is so much we didn't discuss, like the short-lived Playbook tablet from BlackBerry. Or the Priv. Because for the most part, they a device management solution today. The founders are long gone, investing in the next wave of technology: Quantum Computing. The new face of BlackBerry is chasing device management, following adjacencies into security and dabbling in IoT for healthcare and finance. Big ticket types of buys that include red teaming to automotive management to XDR. Maybe their future is in the convergence of post-quantum security, or maybe we'll see their $5.5B market cap get tasty enough for one of those billionaires who really, really, really wants their chicklet keyboard back. Who knows but part of the fun of this is it's a living history.    

Have you heard of Mike Lazaridis? Probably not - but perhaps the story would be different if he had been open to change. Mike is the founder of Blackberry, who in 2009 had complete market dominance but by 2014 had only 1% market share. There are many lessons we can learn from Blackberry's demise - that ‘what got you here won't get you there'. How comfortable are you with being wrong? Are you willing to rethink your beliefs and embrace change? PiXL Pearls are short reflections on life and leadership, in schools. They are here to inspire, encourage, motivate, and challenge. PiXL is a partnership organisation of thousands of schools, colleges and alternative education providers spanning KS1-5. Find out more about how you could gain value from a PiXL subscription: https://www.pixl.org.uk/membership Series 2 and 3 are presented by Rachel Johnson, CEO of PiXL, and Series 1 was presented by Founder-Director Sir John Rowling. They both draw on literature, life, and experience in leadership to explore different elements of what it is to be a good leader and how we can become even better leaders, both in and out of schools. Subscribe now to download every episode directly to your phone automatically. PiXL Pearls is a We Are In Beta production. For more information visit: https://www.pixl.org.uk/

14Tháng 3 Là Ngày Gì? Hôm Nay Là Ngày Sinh Của Albert Einstein SỰ KIỆN 2013 – Tập Cận Bình được bầu làm Chủ tịch nước Cộng hòa nhân dân Trung Hoa, Chủ tịch Quân ủy Nhà nước Trung Quốc 1945 – Trong khi oanh tạc Bielefeld của Đức, không quân Hoàng gia Anh lần đầu tiên sử dụng bom động đất. Sinh 1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, nhà soạn nhạc người Đức (m. 1767) 1804 - Johann Strauss, nhạc sĩ nổi tiếng người Áo 1879 - Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lân, tức vua Thành Thái, hoàng đế thứ 10 của triều Nguyễn (m. 1954). 1900 - Hồ Trọng Hiếu, tức nhà thơ Tú Mỡ (m. 1976) 1874 - Anton Philips , doanh nhân người Hà Lan, đồng sáng lập Philips Electronics (mất năm 1951) [62] 1961 - Mike Lazaridis , doanh nhân người Canada gốc Hy Lạp và nhà từ thiện, thành lập BlackBerry Limited [142] 1879 - Albert Einstein, nhà vật lý, giải thưởng Nobel người Mỹ gốc Đức (m. 1955) Mất 1883 - Karl Marx, người khởi xướng chủ nghĩa Marx (s. 1818) 1932 - George Eastman , nhà phát minh và doanh nhân người Mỹ, thành lập Eastman Kodak (sinh năm 1854) [207] Chương trình "Hôm nay ngày gì" hiện đã có mặt trên Youtube, Facebook và Spotify: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aweektv - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AWeekTV - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rC4CgZNV6tJpX2RIcbK0J - Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../h%C3%B4m-nay.../id1586073418 #aweektv #14thang3 #JohannStrauss #KarlMarx #Philips #BlackBerry #Einstein Các video đều thuộc quyền sở hữu của Adwell jsc (adwell.vn), mọi hành động sử dụng lại nội dung của chúng tôi đều không được phép. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aweek-tv/message

History of the originally known as Research In Motion (RIM), that developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartphones, and tablets in recent times it transitioned to a cybersecurity enterprise software and services company

In "Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know", you'll learn how an international debate champion wins arguments, a Black musician persuades white supremacists to abandon hate, and how a vaccine whisperer convinces anti-vaxxers to immunize their children. Think Again is an invitation to let go of stale opinions and prize mental flexibility, humility, and curiosity over foolish consistency. This reading is taken from the chapter: "A Preacher, A Prosecutor, A Politician, and A Scientist Walk Into Your Mind" and is on the story of Mike Lazaridis. Who? Listen and learn. Order your copy of Think Again from your local bookshop or here on Amazon. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/one-last-thought/message

It's summer 2008, and Research In Motion's Mike Lazaridis is at the product testing site for BlackBerry's new device: a touchscreen designed to compete with the iPhone. This model, however, is going to leave more than broken glass in its wake, when it threatens to sever RIM's relationship with Verizon.But while RIM is working to match the last iteration of the iPhone, Apple is about to open up a new battlefront. One that RIM has not even dreamed of.Listen to new episodes 1 week early and to all episodes ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App https://wondery.app.link/businesswars. Please support us by supporting our sponsors!OURCROWD - Join the fastest growing venture capital investment community at ourcrowd.com/BWSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's late 2005, and Steve Jobs is deciding between two prototypes for an Apple phone. His choice will go on to become perhaps the best-selling product ever. Now his team just has to make the touchscreen technology work.Thousands of miles away in Waterloo, Canada, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis can barely keep up with orders for BlackBerrys. But a scandal at the company blackens their reputation, and plants a seed of disaster between the two co-CEOs.Listen to new episodes 1 week early and to all episodes ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App https://wondery.app.link/businesswars. Please support us by supporting our sponsors!Podium - Get started free today at podium.com/BWSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's September 11, 2001, and the only network running in downtown NYC is the one owned and operated by BlackBerry's manufacturer, Reserach in Motion. On one of the most devastating days in American history, that unique reliability wins RIM new fans from Wall Street to Capitol Hill. Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the co-CEOs of RIM, created the first mobile devices that synced work email accounts to mobile. But when Steve Jobs picks up the bulky Blackberry, he sees an opportunity — and a rivalry is born.Listen to new episodes 1 week early and to all episodes ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App https://wondery.app.link/businesswars. Please support us by supporting our sponsors!Zip Recruiter- Try ziprecruiter.com/BW to try Zip Recruiter free and get your job posted in front of the right people!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this week's podcast, we sit down with world famous photographer (and favourite of superyacht owners), David Yarrow. We also look forward to a talk by Artefact owner Mike Lazaridis at the upcoming Superyacht Design Festival, and discuss some of the boats entering this year's Top 101 list. We also get some great news from the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show and rundown the top five largest explorer yachts. Links: Superyacht Design Festival: https://www.boatinternational.com/luxury-yacht-events/superyacht-design-festival Explorer Yachts Summit: https://www.boatinternational.com/luxury-yacht-events/explorer-yachts-summit Sailing Eros: https://www.boatinternational.com/charter/luxury-yacht-charter-news/classic-sailing-yacht-eros Viking 90: https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/viking-90-flibs CRN 67 metre project: https://www.boatinternational.com/yacht-market-intelligence/brokerage-sales-news/crn-67m-project-sold New Flexplorer 146: https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/cantiere-delle-marche-flexplorer-146 BOAT Pro: https://www.boatinternational.com/boat-pro Contact us: podcast@boatinternationalmedia.com

In this second edition of First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute, Howard Burton tells the remarkable and unconventional story—with a bold and biting humour and surprising candour—of the founding of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Howard was the Founding Director of Perimeter Institute and his experiences at developing the research and outreach mandates of PI are described in this thought-provoking book featuring a foreword by Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose. Howard Burton was a freshly-minted physics PhD from the University of Waterloo when a random job query resulted in a strange - albeit fateful - meeting with Research In Motion founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. Mike had a crazy idea: he wanted to spend $100 million of his own recently-found wealth (Research In Motion had just gone public a year earlier and he suddenly found himself fabulously wealthy on paper) to do something new and transformative in the world of science. From these curious beginnings began the story of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and Howard's role as its founding director from 1999-2007. Howard Burton is also the founder and host of all Ideas Roadshow Conversations. Ideas Roadshow is an award-winning initiative producing a wide range of innovative, multimedia resources, including several pedagogical databases and a wide range of books in both electronic and print format developed from in-depth conversations with more than 100 world-leading researchers, including 3 Nobel Laureates. Ideas Roadshow conversations reveal the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research while providing behind-the-scenes insights into the world of frontline researchers. You can check it out on ideasroadshow.com. Howard also spoke to me about the books Conversations about Astrophysics and Cosmology, Biology and Neuroscience on the NBN, so make sure to look those episodes on our website or any podcast app you use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this second edition of First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute, Howard Burton tells the remarkable and unconventional story—with a bold and biting humour and surprising candour—of the founding of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Howard was the Founding Director of Perimeter Institute and his experiences at developing the research and outreach mandates of PI are described in this thought-provoking book featuring a foreword by Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose. Howard Burton was a freshly-minted physics PhD from the University of Waterloo when a random job query resulted in a strange - albeit fateful - meeting with Research In Motion founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. Mike had a crazy idea: he wanted to spend $100 million of his own recently-found wealth (Research In Motion had just gone public a year earlier and he suddenly found himself fabulously wealthy on paper) to do something new and transformative in the world of science. From these curious beginnings began the story of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and Howard's role as its founding director from 1999-2007. Howard Burton is also the founder and host of all Ideas Roadshow Conversations. Ideas Roadshow is an award-winning initiative producing a wide range of innovative, multimedia resources, including several pedagogical databases and a wide range of books in both electronic and print format developed from in-depth conversations with more than 100 world-leading researchers, including 3 Nobel Laureates. Ideas Roadshow conversations reveal the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research while providing behind-the-scenes insights into the world of frontline researchers. You can check it out on ideasroadshow.com. Howard also spoke to me about the books Conversations about Astrophysics and Cosmology, Biology and Neuroscience on the NBN, so make sure to look those episodes on our website or any podcast app you use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

In this second edition of First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute, Howard Burton tells the remarkable and unconventional story—with a bold and biting humour and surprising candour—of the founding of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Howard was the Founding Director of Perimeter Institute and his experiences at developing the research and outreach mandates of PI are described in this thought-provoking book featuring a foreword by Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose. Howard Burton was a freshly-minted physics PhD from the University of Waterloo when a random job query resulted in a strange - albeit fateful - meeting with Research In Motion founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. Mike had a crazy idea: he wanted to spend $100 million of his own recently-found wealth (Research In Motion had just gone public a year earlier and he suddenly found himself fabulously wealthy on paper) to do something new and transformative in the world of science. From these curious beginnings began the story of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and Howard's role as its founding director from 1999-2007. Howard Burton is also the founder and host of all Ideas Roadshow Conversations. Ideas Roadshow is an award-winning initiative producing a wide range of innovative, multimedia resources, including several pedagogical databases and a wide range of books in both electronic and print format developed from in-depth conversations with more than 100 world-leading researchers, including 3 Nobel Laureates. Ideas Roadshow conversations reveal the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research while providing behind-the-scenes insights into the world of frontline researchers. You can check it out on ideasroadshow.com. Howard also spoke to me about the books Conversations about Astrophysics and Cosmology, Biology and Neuroscience on the NBN, so make sure to look those episodes on our website or any podcast app you use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science

In this second edition of First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute, Howard Burton tells the remarkable and unconventional story—with a bold and biting humour and surprising candour—of the founding of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Howard was the Founding Director of Perimeter Institute and his experiences at developing the research and outreach mandates of PI are described in this thought-provoking book featuring a foreword by Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose. Howard Burton was a freshly-minted physics PhD from the University of Waterloo when a random job query resulted in a strange - albeit fateful - meeting with Research In Motion founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. Mike had a crazy idea: he wanted to spend $100 million of his own recently-found wealth (Research In Motion had just gone public a year earlier and he suddenly found himself fabulously wealthy on paper) to do something new and transformative in the world of science. From these curious beginnings began the story of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and Howard's role as its founding director from 1999-2007. Howard Burton is also the founder and host of all Ideas Roadshow Conversations. Ideas Roadshow is an award-winning initiative producing a wide range of innovative, multimedia resources, including several pedagogical databases and a wide range of books in both electronic and print format developed from in-depth conversations with more than 100 world-leading researchers, including 3 Nobel Laureates. Ideas Roadshow conversations reveal the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research while providing behind-the-scenes insights into the world of frontline researchers. You can check it out on ideasroadshow.com. Howard also spoke to me about the books Conversations about Astrophysics and Cosmology, Biology and Neuroscience on the NBN, so make sure to look those episodes on our website or any podcast app you use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Our convictions can lock us into this a prison of our own making. If you are able to be open, curious, and humble, then it can lead to the result of pioneering the whole industry of smartphones, like Apple. In today's episode, we explore intellectual humility: knowing what we don't know. Becoming aware of your shortcomings is vital for your company's survival, and is unlocked by overcoming a potential fear of leaving your comfort zone.

Would you like to know how the company that created one of the world’s most addictive products and pioneered a market spiraled into holding only 1% of its market after losing its way? This book summary provides insight into what propelled the rapid growth and precipitous downfall of Research in Motion, the Canadian technology company that created the BlackBerry smartphone. Losing the Signal provides unique access to many of the key players inside RIM. It covers the backstories of founder Mike Lazaridis and his co-CEO Jim Balsillie, and the impact of their unique “business marriage” and dual leadership on the company. It charts the course of RIM’s ascent and descent, highlighting key business choices, market dynamics, and corporate scandals that led to RIM’s organizational unraveling, strategic confusion, and ultimate defeat in the smartphone race.

Our first story takes us to Southwestern Ontario, where the government of Ontario and Bioindustrial Innovation Canada have partnered to launch a new commercialization hub in Sarnia-Lambton As part of the partnership, the Government of Ontario says it will invest $3 million over four years through the Business Growth Initiative to help build the Centre of Excellence for the Commercialization of Sustainable Chemistry Innovations at the Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park, Canada’s largest clean-tech incubator. The new centre will focus on bridging critical gaps and addressing commercialization challenges facing the industrial biotechnology and manufacturing sectors, including developing expertise, forging commercial partnerships, and accessing risk-capital to help bring discoveries and technologies from the lab to the marketplace. The good news goes further as its expected that 400 high-value jobs will be created at the new site. The region is known for its Biomanufacturing prowess, turning sustainable feedstock — renewable resources such as agricultural and forestry by-products and wastes — into energy, value-added chemicals and materials for use in a variety of everyday products such as plastics, personal care products, automotive parts and food additives. The use of plant-derived chemicals and bio-manufacturing processes can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions when compared to conventional petroleum based production methods. One example of a successful company in this space is BioAmber, a sustainable chemical company in Sarnia that produces plant-derived succinic acid and is able to achieve a 100 per cent reduction in GHGs over conventional methods. Similarly, EcoSynthetix, a Burlington-based renewable chemicals company produces paper coatings while cutting GHG emissions by 63 per cent compared to the norm. The funding for the new centre was previously announced as part of this year’s provincial budget. In regulatory news coming out of Quebec, the Government there, through its Ministry of Health has denied Theratechnologies bid to have EGRIFTA®, an injectable prescription medicine to reduce the excess abdominal fat in HIV-infected patients with lipodystrophy, added to a list of reimbursed medications. Company CEO and president Luc Tanguay called the decision by the province, which also happens to be the province where EGRIFTA® was discovered, regretful. “The government is sending a message that supporting research is not a priority,” he said via a release adding that it is quite paradoxical that, after supporting the development of EGRIFTA® through tax credits, the Quebec government will not accept to reimburse it.” The decision, made by the Quebec Minister of Health, Gaétan Barrette, was based on a recommendation by the Institut National d’Excellence en Santé et Services Sociaux(INESSS). Theratechnologies submitted to INESSS a comprehensive dossier which included data that led to public and private reimbursement by a large number of governmental agencies and insurers in Canada and in the United States. INESSS concluded that the decrease of visceral adipose tissue in HIV patients does not constitute a therapeutic advantage. Nevertheless, INESSS did recognize the efficacy EGRIFTA® and the quality of its clinical studies. In response, Theratechnologies did say that despite the decision, they will continue to work with the Ministry and INESSS, and that they will submit to INESSS, within the prescribed timelines, a request for a revision of their decision. In Cancer Research News, the Movember Foundation, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and Prostate Cancer Canada are providing $3 million in funding for a new Phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate if magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can replace the current standard of care to diagnose prostate cancer. The trial, called PRECISE, will be led by Dr. Laurence Klotz of the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, a world leader in the field of prostate cancer research and in the global adoption of active surveillance, a standard practice to monitor patients with low risk prostate cancer. The primary objective of the multi-centre trial is to determine whether MRI imaging can spare some men from undergoing a biopsy and avoid the possible associated side effects. Dr. Klotz discusses the PRECISE TRIAL in the following audio... Data management and analysis for the trial will be conducted by the Ontario Clinical Oncology Group (OCOG) in the Escarpment Cancer Research Institute, a Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University institute. Earlier this month, five contenders of the third AmorChem KNOCK OUT™ competition climbed into the ring at a special Lumira-AmorChem hosted event to duke it out against a panel of Heavyweight Champions, or judges for a chance to win a coveted $500,000 financing from AmorChem. All the contenders displayed remarkable courage and agility in the ring, yet only one could stand victorious. In the end, Dr. Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, CRCHUM scientific director at the Institut du cancer de Montréal, for her project focused on the development of small molecule inhibitors of the Ran GTPase, was named the champion. The panel of “champion” judges included: Richard Lesniewski, a pharmaceutical industry veteran formerly from Abbott (AbbVie), GlaxoSmithKline and Madison Vaccines; John Gillard, science entrepreneur formerly from Merck Canada, BioChem Pharma and Aegera Therapeutics; John Bell, scientist-entrepreneur from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the University of Ottawa; and Lloyd Segal, best known as a serial biotech entrepreneur and investor at Persistence Capital Partners and Trimera Capital. Christopher Hall, a renowned radio and newspaper columnist and comedian, was the master of ceremony. Both Elizabeth Douvile and Ines Holzbaur,, general partners at AmorChem which we’ve highlighted in past podacast shows called the competition a success, achieving its goal of increasing the Quebec and Canadian research communities’ awareness of AmorChem and in reaching out to researchers who may not have been aware of the possibility of commercializing aspects of their work. Among the other competitors were: Dr. John Coles, University of Toronto & Dr. Jason Maynes, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto; Dr. Julie Forman Kay, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto & Dr. Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University; Dr. Réjean Lapointe, Université de Montréal and CRCHUM & Dr. Sophie Lerouge, École de technologie supérieure and CRCHUM; and Dr. Moutih Rafei, Université de Montréal. The Lumira-AmorChem conference also highlighted the respective roles of the two venture capital groups in the financing of the life sciences sector, and included presentations from Lumira Capital portfolio companies and from AmorChem’s first spin-off company, Mperia. Our final stories this week come out of Ottawa where the Government of Canada had two announcements related to supporting Canada’s science community. The first saw Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, launch an independent review of federal funding for fundamental science, to assess the program machinery that is currently in place to support science and scientists in Canada. The scope of the review includes the three granting councils along with certain federally funded organizations such as the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The review will be led by an independent panel of distinguished research leaders and innovators including Dr. David Naylor, former president of the University of Toronto and chair of the panel. Other panelists include: Dr. Robert Birgeneau, former chancellor, University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Martha Crago, Vice-President, Research, Dalhousie University, Mike Lazaridis, co-founder, Quantum Valley Investments, Dr. Claudia Malacrida, Associate Vice-President, Research, University of Lethbridge, Dr. Art McDonald, former director of the Sudbury Neutrino Laboratory, Nobel Laureate, Dr. Martha Piper, interim president, University of British Columbia, Dr. Rémi Quirion, Chief Scientist, Quebec, Dr. Anne Wilson, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Successful Societies Fellow and professor of psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University The panel will spend the next six months seeking input from the research community and Canadians on how to optimize support for fundamental science in Canada. The panel will also survey international best practices for funding science and examine whether emerging researchers face barriers that prevent them from achieving career goals. In addition to collecting input from the research community, the panel will also invite Canadians to participate in the review through an online consultation. In further Canadian Science Policy news Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, has put forward a new Innovation Agenda . Jointly with Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan, and, Minister of Small Business and Tourism Bardish Chagger, the initiative or Agenda will aim at building an inclusive and innovative Canada focused on six areas for action: including promoting an entrepreneurial and creative society, supporting global science excellence, building world-leading clusters and partnerships, growing companies and accelerating clean growth, competing in a digital world and improving ease of doing business. These six action areas, which form the Innovation Agenda, will be the focus of a summer-longperiod of public engagement that will result in an action plan. Central to this plan will be a call to action to all sectors of society. Minister Bains invited all Canadians to share their ideas on the Agenda, and should watch for the launch of an interactive website that will allow them to offer their suggestions on positioning Canada as a global leader in innovation. In addition, round-table discussions will take place across the country. That wraps up this weeks show, be sure to You can find us online at www.biotechnologyfocus.ca and follow us on twitter @BiotechFocus check out our latest issue on our website!

Usually a nine-figure exit takes more than a year to complete but when Blackberry found itself behind schedule on the launch of its tablet, RIM founder Mike Lazaridis saw Jakobsson’s business as a saviour. This led Blackberry to a $150 million acquisition in less than six weeks—that has to be the fastest nine-figure exit ever.

Kevin, Adam, Bla1ze, Simon and Chris talk about cross-platform BBM, the OS 10.2 rollout, the BlackBerry Z30 and more. Plus a special appearance from an old friend!

Mike Lazaridis está considerando adquirir la totalidad de la compañía canadiense por lo que incrementó su participación en el golpeado fabricante... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Le N°6 du 360 HI•TEK (version SD) est sorti, en ce vendredi matin 14 octobre 2011 ! Au programme de ce nouveau numéro de notre JT hebdomadaire, tout en images, de 6 minutes (et des poussières !) : la panne mondiale du réseau BlackBerry et les excuses de Mike Lazaridis, le co-PDG de RIM ; l'arrivée de l'iPhone 4S et d'iOS 5 ; le bilan du Salon de la Photo 2011 qui a attiré presque autant de visiteurs qu'en 2010 malgré la concurrence de la coupe du monde de rugby ; ïdKids à Lille, le plus High-Tech des magasins qui vient d'ouvrir à Lille et qui va faire des petits dès la semaine prochaine ; et puis, reportage à New York pour la présentation des nouveaux casques Beats Studio en présence de Dr Dre !

Le N°6 du 360 HI•TEK est sorti, en ce vendredi matin 14 octobre 2011 ! Au programme de ce nouveau numéro de notre JT hebdomadaire, tout en images, de 6 minutes (et des poussières !) : la panne mondiale du réseau BlackBerry et les excuses de Mike Lazaridis, le co-PDG de RIM ; l'arrivée de l'iPhone 4S et d'iOS 5 ; le bilan du Salon de la Photo 2011 qui a attiré presque autant de visiteurs qu'en 2010 malgré la concurrence de la coupe du monde de rugby ; ïdKids à Lille, le plus High-Tech des magasins qui vient d'ouvrir à Lille et qui va faire des petits dès la semaine prochaine ; et puis, reportage à New York pour la présentation des nouveaux casques Beats Studio en présence de Dr Dre !

Research in Motion's head honchos Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis were on the hot seat at the company AGM this week. FP tech guru Matt Hartley was there and has the details on the critical next six months for RIM/After raising prices for months, it looks like airlines might cut us a break and drop fares soon. FP transportation reporter Scott Deveau gets our hopes up.