RIM celebrates milestone along with its ten-year anniversary and 50 millionth BlackBerry shipped.
Research In Motion shipped its 50 millionth BlackBerry in January, ten years after the device was first launched.In figures provided to ME by RIM, it transpires that the BlackBerry Facebook app has now been downloaded seven million times.
Other birthday factoids include the revelation that RIM's BlackBerry infrastructure routes over three Petabytes (that's 3,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) of traffic each month.
With the Bold and Storm selling well, RIM is certainly in the acsendancy as a mainstream smartphone manufacturer as others fall by the wayside - the company hired approximately 4,000 employees globally last year and surpassed the 12,000 employee mark in January.
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