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RIM President and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis: The Full D7 Session

by Kara Swisher
Posted on June 22, 2009 at 10:30 AM PT

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We kick off the week of full posts of the onstage interviews at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference with Mike Lazaridis, president and co-CEO of Research in Motion (RIMM), which is best known as the maker of the BlackBerry.

Lazaridis has been key to developing the BlackBerry, which means he is directly responsible for the CrackBerry problem too. And it means he’s in the thick of the new handheld platform wars.

In this interview, Walt Mossberg talked to him about all that and the competitors, such as Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Palm (PALM), all of which are competing aggressively in the fast-growing and innovative smartphone space.

Here’s the D7 interview with Lazaridis:

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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