| INTRODUCTION → 1. The Planet Goes BlackBerry → 2. The Birth of the BlackBerry → 3. Lawsuits in Motion → → 4. From Brand to Icon → 5. BlackBerry Jam → 6. The Rise of the TeleBrain → |
| WELCOME / INDEX - SAMPLE CHAPTER → DEVICES → Image Gallery → Audio/Video → Texts & Docs → Web Links → Appendix → |
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| Gallery - People → Places → Logos → Products → Devices → Celebrities → Ads → Comedy → Tech → Maps → Charts → Other → |
| Video - Speeches → Interviews → Celebrities → News → At Work → Comedy → CrackBerry → Advertising → → Pearl → Curve → Reviews → The Bold → BlackBerry Storm → Competitors → The TeleBrain → Audio → |
| Appendix - Glossary → Timeline → Financials → Growth → Patents | Cases → Bibliography → Partners Fund → Techno Telepathy |
| Footnotes - Chapter 1 →→ Chapter 2 → → Chapter 3→ → Chapter 4→ →Chapter 5→ →Chapter 6→ → |
| Book Gallery - Chapter 1 →→ Chapter 2 → → Chapter 3→ → Chapter 4→ → Chapter 5→ → Chapter 6→ → |
Welcome to BlackBerry Planet
The Story of Research in Motion and the Little Device that Took the World by Storm
by Alastair Sweeny
The Reviews are in...
- "The narrative is engaging, and the absence of glossy pictures signals this book isn't for your coffee table. But does it succeed? The short answer is yes, if what you are looking for is a thoughtful, quick read about RIM's rise as a Canadian corporate icon." - John Turley-Ewart, Financial Post
- "BlackBerry Planet is most interesting when Sweeny steps aside of the straight corporate history and discusses the wider cultural and social significance of RIM’s most famous product." - Maclean Kay, Troy Media
- "BlackBerry Planet won't be the final book written about RIM — there's at least one other already in process — but it's the first and sets the standard. Those that follow will swipe or quote from the deep digging that Ottawa-based author Alastair Sweeny has done in the origins, passions and near death experiences of Research in Motion. Alastair has made the book the centrepiece of a multi-media presentation, with a website that holds research material and illustration and serves as a platform to build BlackBerry Planet 2.0...... While the company has enjoyed a lot of success, it almost came a-cropper in a patent case. The result is widely known. RIM paid upwards of $600 million to extricate itself from a dispute that escalated into what Alastair calls "the biggest patent fight in technology history." It was a knock-down, drag-em-out affair and the chapter that deals with it sizzles with the drama of a David and Goliath confrontation." - Tony Patterson, SCANSite
Compared to a competing book on the BlackBerry...
- "[Rod McQueen's BlackBerry] could be easily mistaken for a long brochure for RIM investors.... McQueen sounds like the best man delivering a wedding speech, not someone providing a critical look at the little device that is revolutionizing business and human relations... For a more critical look at the device, BlackBerry Planet by Alastair Sweeny is a far better work. " - Robert Rocha, the Gazette.
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Welcome to my BlackBerry Planet Web Support pages. Please read the Terms of Use. I have built this portal to support my business biography of the BlackBerry, BlackBerry Planet, published by Wiley in September, 2009. Click HERE for information on how to order online. The top index bar on every page contains a list of the book chapters, plus a sample chapter, The Birth of the BlackBerry, available HERE.
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