Opinion on  Research in Motion Ltd (RIMM)     Sector: Technology  >  Industry: Communications Equipment
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By ADAM EWING and KATHY SHWIFF

Sharpening its focus on the increasingly competitive consumer cellphone market, Nokia Corp. is near a deal to sell its computer-security hardware business and plans to stop making software for business customers.

Nokia, the world's largest cellphone maker by unit sales, said it is in advanced talks to sell its security-appliances business to a financial investor that it didn't name.

In addition, the cellular telephone maker said it will stop making or marketing software that businesses use to support wireless email and other communications and instead turn to outside providers such as International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems ...