Samsung Electronics largest smartphone

Reuters Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will become the world's largest smartphone maker this quarter, overtaking struggling Nokia Oyj which has lead the market since 1996, Nomura said on Monday. Nokia looks set to relinquish its smartphone crown to Samsung and Apple," Nomura analysts said in a research note. Research firms Gartner and Canalys both said they saw Nokia -- which created the smartphone market with its 1996 launch of the Communicator model -- losing smartphone volume leadership later this year. Overall, Nokia still makes more cellphones than Samsung due to its strong position in basic cellphones...

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RIM will launch Blackberry PlayBook tablet computer

The proposal from Northwest and Ethical, which holds more than half a million RIM shares, calls on the company to split the roles and amend its bylaws to ensure the chair is an independent board member, RIM said in a regulatory filing on Friday. RIM said on Friday it will launch its PlayBook tablet computer -- its attempt to compete with the iPad -- outside North America within the next 30 days. The PlayBook launched to some troubling reviews in the United States and Canada in April, amid complaints that the company had rushed the gadget to market. RIM, based in Waterloo, Ontario, said the PlayBook will soon...

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