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![[BlackBerry]](../images/c/ca$bb.gif) image by Randy Young, 8 February 
2015
 image by Randy Young, 8 February 
2015See also
"BlackBerry Limited, formerly known as Research In Motion Limited (RIM), is a 
Canadian telecommunication and wireless equipment company best known to the 
general public as the developer of the BlackBerry brand of smart phones and 
tablets, but also well known worldwide as a provider of secure & high 
reliability software for industrial applications and Mobile Device Management 
(MDM). The company is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario. It was established as 
Research In Motion Limited in 1984. The Blackberry name emerged from the product 
BlackBerry 850 pager (named in reference to the resemblance of its keyboard's 
keys to the druplets of the blackberry fruit)."
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Limited, 
https://web.archive.org/web/20050216051813/http://www.rim.com/company/index.shtml 
and 
http://global.blackberry.com/en/company.html 
The old RIM flag 
features the
RIM logo in blue capital letters and below the name of the company, 
"Research In Motion", as seen here:
https://financialpostcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/rim-blackberry1.jpg?w=619 
(source:
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/02/23/rim-maintains-tenuous-hold-on-canadian-smartphone-market/?__lsa=637a-310d).
The new BlackBerry flag features
the logo in white letters over a black horizontal flag as seen here:
http://cdn1.techworld.com/cmsdata/features/3594085/Blackberry_Flags_thumb800.jpg.
For additional information go to RIM (official website, redirects directly 
to Blackberry's official website): a href="http://www.rim.com/">http://www.rim.com/, Blackberry (official 
website): http://www.blackberry.com/ 
Esteban Rivera, , 7 February 2015