Taked from CRN Magazine, September 2009 Edition

Ten years ago, a Waterloo startup called Research in Motion Ltd., formally launched a new product which it described as a “two-way pager with a real-time link to desktop email”. The device had a 32-bit processor, 2 megabytes of onboard memory, a complete if compact keyboard and ran on a single battery. There were already a number of two-way wireless handheld email devices ont he market, but RIM had the advantage of a seamless, secure connection to corporate Microsoft Exchange email servers. Today, with annual revenue of more than $11 billion in 2008, an increase of 84%  from the previous year, RIM sells more than 25 million BlackBerry devices annually.