Posted AT 8:31 PM EDT on 12/02/08
Back in action, RIM faces new threats
As the maker of the BlackBerry expands deeper into the consumer market, it finds its once-unassailable core business of corporate clientele under siege from global mobile giants determined to muscle in. And each time it stumbles with a service outage, it hands rivals another chance to catch up.
Although Waterloo, Ont.-based Research In Motion Ltd.
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