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Shares in Waterloo, Ont.-based Research In Motion rose Wednesday after it unveiled five new BlackBerrys with touchscreens, responding to heavy competition from the iPhone and Android smartphones. RIM shares closed up $1.19, or 5.12 per cent, at $24.42 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Research In Motion has unveiled five new BlackBerrys with touchscreens.

The company had been expected to launch the new phones earlier this year, but they were delayed. Those delays helped drag down RIM stock to its lowest level since 2006.RIM is updating its high-end Bold models to include touchscreens. It’s also launching three Torch models with no physical keyboards. The new models are the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930, Torch 9850, 9860 and Torch 9810.

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