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…tablets would be dead by 2018. According to IDC, there were 49.2 million tablets shipped in January, February and March. Apple’s iPad range took the lion’s share with 19.5 million units.

Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NOK): Watch This Novel Space (Insider Monkey)
Finnish smartphone maker Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK)’s turnaround is now starting to take shape on the back of its Lumia lineup. The company has bet it all on Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone, and while the transition away from Symbian has been long and painful, there’s now light at the end of the tunnel. As part of its efforts, the company has picked a new battleground in the smartphone wars: cameras. Last summer, Nokia Corporation (ADR) acquired the technologies, developers, and intellectual property portfolio of Scalado, a mobile imaging specialist. The move was intended to bolster the camera capabilities of Lumias. In February, Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) also invested in InVisage Technologies, another camera specialist.

Microsoft Struggles to Compete Against iPad, Ships 900K Surface Tablets (PC Magazine)
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) landed on IDC’s list of the top five tablet makers after shipping 900,000 Surface tablets during the first quarter. But that still pales in comparison to the 19.5 million iPads that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shipped during the same time period. Of those 900,000, IDC said that many were the more full-featured Surface Pro, which started shipping to the U.S. and Canada in February. Microsoft Corporation started expanding Surface availability around the globe last month. Surface aside, Windows 8-based tablets “continued to struggle to gain traction in the market,” IDC found, with Windows 8 and Windows RT shipments totaling 1.8 million.