Lesson 9. Using Twitter on the BlackBerry

First introduced in 1999 and revolutionizing in 2002 wireless data transfer and communications, the BlackBerry (http://na.blackberry.com/eng/) brags an impressive following of more than 28 million (so says Wikipedia!), one of them America’s 44th president, Barack Obama. The BlackBerry was the first mobile phone to be dubbed a smartphone and offers its own server for integration into a company’s corporate network.

Figure 9.1. The BlackBerry (their latest model, Storm, pictured here) first introduced to the market a mobile phone that went far beyond what phones of the day could do.