Jim Balsillie
Jim Balsillie
James Laurence "Jim" Balsillieis a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and former co-CEO of the Canadian company Research In Motion. He is also the founder of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canadian International Counciland the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Following his retirement as co-CEO of RIM in January 2012, Balsillie assumed a director role on RIM's Board of Directors. In March 2012, he resigned from the Board due to strategic differences with RIM's new leader and CEO, Thorsten Heins, who...
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Actual shipments and replacements and sales and software is absolutely staying perfect, really.
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The remainder of fiscal 2006 is shaping up to be extremely robust and we are on track to surpass $2 billion in annual revenue for the first time in our history,
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I think our arguments and filings give the court a lot to consider.
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The issue is that they've been disingenuous with the court and with the public.
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lends itself to an individual in a corporation or a small group.
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It was very important to get the scope we wanted.
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No question, we took one for the team here.
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The absolute motivation for this was really to give clarity and certainty to all of our ecosystems, so we can really start our new year ... with all of these issues resolved, and a clear exciting growth path going forward with no more of the noise and distraction.
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We are entering the second half with solid market positioning, strong momentum and an impressive line-up of new products and services.
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This will hopefully lead to more reasonable negotiations since NTP risks losing all future royalties if the workaround is implemented.
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While the delay in launch dates for these two highly anticipated products caused a timing shift in expected subscriber additions, the products are becoming available now and will help drive significant growth in the coming quarters.
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We have already seen significant customer interest in this powerful combination, and we look forward to building on our relationship with Palm.
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Virtually all our carriers are beyond plan, except one or two that have specific issues.
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We recently passed the $2 billion annual revenue and 5 million subscribers milestones and we have begun the new fiscal year with over 150 carrier partners around the world.