Losing the signal
Subtitle: the spectacular rise and fall of BlackBerry
By: Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff
Contributors: Silcoff, Sean, author
Edition: First Canadian edition.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781443436182
Subjects: History; BlackBerry (Smartphone); Blackberry; Smartphone; Telekommunikationsindustrie; BlackBerry (Téléphone intelligent); BlackBerry Limited; Research in Motion
First sentence: Jim Balsillie fidgeted with his phone as his Dassault Falcon jet touched down at Dubai's international airport.
Description: Losing the Signal tells the story of the rapid rise and fall of BlackBerry, whose share of the U.S. phone market fell from 50 percent in 2009 to less than one percent in 2014.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses, and index.
Table of contents: title: PROLOGUE
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: REACH OF THE TOP
pagenum: 9; label: 2
title: ENCHANTED FOREST
pagenum: 25; label: 3
title: STAYING ALIVE
pagenum: 38; label: 4
title: LEAP
pagenum: 51; label: 5
title: SPREADING THE GOSPEL
pagenum: 67; label: 6
title: TOP THIS
pagenum: 79; label: 7
title: EL CAMINO
pagenum: 92; label: 8
title: GAME OF PHONES
pagenum: 105; label: 9
title: ROCKET DOCKET
pagenum: 121; label: 10
title: THE JESUS PHONE
pagenum: 130; label: 11
title: STORM
pagenum: 139; label: 12
title: OFFSIDE
pagenum: 152; label: 13
title: DISCONNECT
pagenum: 165; label: 14
title: GOAT RODEO
pagenum: 178; label: 15
title: FAULT LINES
pagenum: 193; label: 16
title: WATERLOO SPRING
pagenum: 210; label: 17
title: HANGING UP
pagenum: 226; title: EPILOGUE
pagenum: 244; title: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
pagenum: 251; title: NOTES
pagenum: 255; title: INDEX
pagenum: 267