When I saw the headline "Crisis Mounts at BlackBerry Maker" in last Friday's Wall Street Journal, my first reaction was, Oh no! What about the Perimeter Institute?
The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, to give the independent research center its full name, was founded in 1999 and is located in Waterloo, Ontario. Funds to establish the new institute came from Mike Lazaridis, who founded and runs Research in Motion. RIM's main product is the BlackBerry smartphone—hence my alarm at the WSJ headline.
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