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RIM success backfires

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Research in Motion Ltd.'s Blackberry pagers have been disrupted by service problems related to an overload of the telecommunication company's system. Woodbridge, NJ-based Cingular Interactive L.P., which is RIM's partner, had underestimated the level of usage for RIM's paging operations.

Author: Chu, Showwei
Publisher: Bell Globemedia Interactive
Publication Name: Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0319-0714
Year: 2001
Radiotelephone communications, Services information, Paging Services, Paging, Management, Services, Equipment and supplies, Broadcasting industry, Research in Motion Ltd., Cingular Interactive

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Linux freedom behind Red Hat success

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Durham, NC-based Red Hat Inc., which is a software company, attributes its success to the Linux operating system. Red Hat's chairman and co-founder, Robert Young, believes that Linux will undermine Microsoft Corp.'s market dominance.

Author: Chu, Showwei
Publisher: Bell Globemedia Interactive
Publication Name: Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0319-0714
Year: 2000
Strategy & planning, Systems Software Pkgs, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Red Hat Inc., RHAT, Linux/AXP 2.2 (Operating system)

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Hummingbird soars on earnings forecast

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Hummingbird Ltd. saw its share value increase by 15% after it forecasting higher-than-expected financial results for the 2000 fourth-quarter. The company is expecting to post 49 US cents per share earnings for the period.

Author: Chu, Showwei
Publisher: Bell Globemedia Interactive
Publication Name: Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0319-0714
Year: 2000
Sales, profits & dividends, Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Securities prices, Hummingbird Ltd., HUMC

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Subjects list: United States, Canada, Computer software industry, Software industry, Software, Forecasts and trends
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