The team at SearchMobileComputer had a chance to sit down and talk with Mike Lazaridis, founder and co-CEO of RIM. Lazaridis talked about the recent outages, pointing out that, while the outages are lamentable, the company still has a 99.85% uptime and is gunning for four straight nines. The company came under a little fire for not getting word out as to the reason for the outage, but he dismissed this by saying that they were vastly more concerned with getting the systems back up ASAP than with reporting the cause. The article goes on to talk about Lazaridis’ thoughts on the iPhone, the advantages of RIM’s business model and their staying power in the industry.
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APC Magazine got word that RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie confirmed that an HSDPA-compliant BlackBerry is in the works and on the way. The news comes from the Mobile World Congress, where Balsillie said the the technology was very important to the company “in the near term.” The technology has already been confirmed for the upcoming 9000 series, and further rumors have been spotted about a release during or just before WES, so some people might have this in their hot little hands as early as May.