The Latest in IT Security

BlackBerry’s brush with fame: reaching Justin Bieber, discos, and the NFL

06
Dec
2013

With BlackBerry falling apart day-by-day, fans have never been more eager to reminisce on the pioneering smartphone makers rise. While its easy to forget the celebrity that the BlackBerry brand once held, Bloomberg Businessweek spoke with a number of old employees — most having worked there when it was still named RIM — who remember it well. There wasn’t a meeting I couldn’t get, Vincent Washington, a BlackBerry business development manager with the company between 2001 and 2011, tells Businessweek. At launches in Jamaica and Trinidad, BlackBerry owners were reportedly invited to discos where they could get temporary tattoos that, when scanned, revealed their BBM PIN.

Comments are closed.

Categories

THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2024
WHITE PAPERS

Mission-Critical Broadband – Why Governments Should Partner with Commercial Operators:
Many governments embrace mobile network operator (MNO) networks as ...

ARA at Scale: How to Choose a Solution That Grows With Your Needs:
Application release automation (ARA) tools enable best practices in...

The Multi-Model Database:
Part of the “new normal” where data and cloud applications are ...

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments