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Golden parachutes for Balsillie, Lazaridis in wake of RIM ouster

Research In Motion’s former co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis might have run into some trouble in their waning days at the company, but that didn’t stop the mobile firm from giving them some serious entitlements to make their departure a bit easier to handle. RIM yesterday filed a form 6K with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), outlining how …

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Vodafone pounds the pavement to test signal strength

Vodafone has taken to the streets to reveal how it tests phone signal in hard-to-reach places. From shopping centres to offices, pedestrian testers are roaming Britain equipped with special phones that automatically call, text and surf the web — all in the interest of maintaining those crucial signal bars. James Watt is one of Vodafone’s network of pedestrian testers, roving …

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