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This page last updated 2002 Feb 1
 

. When any new technology is developing broad acceptance - it is important for any country to guage how its companies and citizens are adopting it, and developing it in order to project you future competitiveness.

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RIM
 www.rim.com

one of the Cdn companies doing well in the wireless community
The Waterloo-based company, maker of the popular BlackBerry pager, announced yesterday (2002, Jan 29)  that mobile phone giants Rogers Wireless Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. have agreed to market a new voice-enabled version of the device on their next-generation wireless networks. RIM announced a similar contract with Nextel Communications Inc. on Thursday as part of a three-way alliance with Motorola Inc., which will help design a new BlackBerry device featuring voice and radio-dispatch capabilities.
 
"Rogers Wireless, which already has 26,000 BlackBerry subscribers on its Mobitex data-only network, will become the first wireless carrier in Canada to offer RIM's new device, which people can use to make phone calls, send e-mail and access the Internet. The BlackBerry also functions as an electronic organizer, scheduler and address book, and new units can run a multitude of   applications based on the Java programming language."

 
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