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Research In Motion chose its home country to launch a PlayBook tablet with built-in support for cellular networks, a crucial feature that its initial models lacked.

RIM delays an update to its PlayBook tablet computer's system software until February 2012.

Best Buy will chop the price of HTC's Flyer to $299 from $499 October 1, CrunchGear reported Friday. The move comes after many retailers chopped the price for RIM's PlayBook and Motorola's Xoom to just $299. And, of course, HP has outdone them all, slashing the price of its TouchPad to just $99 on its way ...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion recalled about 1,000 of its PlayBook tablets that were shipped with faulty operating systems, which may have prevented users from performing the device's initial setup.

Research In Motion Ltd. says its tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook, will start selling in the U.S. and Canada on April 19 for $499 to $699.

Unleash the tablet PCs! Asustek is planning on launching a whole pack of tablets. As Joe Stalin once said, sometimes quantity has a quality all its own. Research In Motion’s Playbook tablet is coming early next year. Samsung will start selling the Galaxy Tab in November. Now Asustek Computer President Jerry Shen says he plans to launch five — FIVE! — tablets next year. Take that Steve Jobs.