Mathematics is the key to solving problems for Research In Motion's founder and co-CEO, Mike Lazaridis. His company, famous for bringing the BlackBerry device to the world, has been dealing with the mathematics of 'wireless data' since 1988. "We originally got into wireless data in 1988 because it was an opportunity to link into data systems for the emergency services," explains Lazaridis. In 1988, wireless data networks were fairly new. Protocols, gateways and user interfaces had to be built from scratch. However, the real pay-off for Lazaridis did not occur until the end of the 1990s - when enterprises discovered an appetite for sending and receiving email. For most of that decade, Research In Motion (RIM) gradually worked on the mathematics to refine the compression and security algorithms that were to culminate in the launch of the first BlackBerry service in 1999. By this point, the business world had already embraced email and RIM did not find it difficult to persuade business organisations of the benefits of delivering email to their mobile workforce.
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机译：数学是解决Research In Motion的创始人兼联合首席执行官Mike Lazaridis的问题的关键。他的公司以将BlackBerry设备推向世界而闻名，自1988年以来一直从事“无线数据”的数学处理。“我们最初于1988年涉足无线数据，因为它是一个为紧急服务连接到数据系统的机会。 ”。 1988年，无线数据网络才刚刚出现。协议，网关和用户界面必须从头开始构建。但是，直到1990年代末，拉扎里迪斯才真正获得回报，当时企业发现了发送和接收电子邮件的兴趣。在这十年的大部分时间里，Research In Motion（RIM）逐渐研究数学，以优化压缩和安全算法，这些算法最终在1999年推出首个BlackBerry服务时就达到了顶峰。到那时，商业世界已经接受了电子邮件RIM并没有发现很难说服商业组织将电子邮件发送给其移动员工的好处。
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