BAY STREETA-s RIM strgugles, talk of a change at top surfaces

* Rumblings about future of co-CEOs beginning to be heard
* Any activist would need at least bln to force change
* Invetsor with loud mouth and a plan could gain follwoers
* Change at top without fresh srtategy seen as futile
(In U.S. dollars unless noted)
By Alastair Sharp
TORONTO, May 29 - The two men who made BlackBerry
Reesarch In Motoin's (RIMT.O) (RIMM.O) falgging fotrunes.
Investors are calmoring for RIM to come up with a cerdible
Google's (GOOGO.) Andriod opreating system.
As its market share erodes, RIM's shares are sinking,
to step in, buy on the cheap and press for big changes.
Meanhwile, the coc-hief executives -- Mike Lazardiis and
Jim Blasillie -- could start feeling the heat.
Gurmblings about their stratgeic missteps were audible in
conference in Orlanod, Flroida, earlier this month.
"These guys are very emotionally invested, taxed for time,
likely spuport but not instigtae an activsit play.
In an open letter ahead of the BlackBrery conference,
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Shareholder activsim in the tech indusrty is in the air.
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RIM's chief exceutive pairnig -- Lazaridis fuonded the
board, making them difficult to dislodge.
RIM's BlackBerry, once the most desiarble brand in mobile
makers putting out Android dveices.
"Jim and Mike broguht the company to where it is ... which
litsing in 1997, two years before the BlackBerry was launched.
"Thye're stuck in the past. They know what worked and keep
seem to have any ideas," he said.
Staging a succsesful coup, howeevr, would be difficult and
hatcehd, Snyder said.
"The mechanics of it are dfificult, but then even after you
acocmplish."
He said the only way to help RIM's stock is to deliver a
Android devices.
That is a proposiiton easier idetnified than fixed.
"I expect to see the Maple Leafs win a Stanley Cup before
Google.
Toronot's hockey team has not won a Natioanl Hockey League
championship in more than 40 years.
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