During yesterday's General Session here at WES 2010, Mike Lazaridis gave a keynote where he talked Bold 9650, Pearl 3G, BlackBerry 6 and a whole bunch more. If you missed our live blog, you can check out the full video here. It is a bit long at over 20 minutes, but its packed with some goodies from RIM you won't want to miss. The highlight of course was the quick video of BlackBerry 6, but if you have the time its definitely worth a watch.
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RIM Founder Mike Lazaridis Speaks to Analysts at WES: App World Generates a Million Downloads Per Day; OS6.0 Coming Next Quarter
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