WholeThinking essays with keyword tag: Lebanon

Research In Motion, Death of a Thousand Cuts

By | August 11, 2010 | Cultural Interface

After loud and strident statements by both RIM and their founder, Mike Lazaridis, that they would not allow the penetration of their network and the monitoring requested by many authorities of countries they provide the Blackberry service, they now appear to have capitulated to some degree in Saudi Arabia. Research In Motion is not talking […]

Research In Motion Roars, Will the Autocrats Flinch?

By | August 5, 2010 | Cultural Interface

After making some far too carefully paced and diplomatic statements to the press on Monday, Research in Motion’s co-CEO and founder, Michael Lazaridis, has come out swinging in a battle that define the future of Blackberry and maybe the very idea of what the Internet will be in the international arena. In a fiery retort […]