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BlackBerry: Market analysis firm IDC reports that the Waterloo, Ont.-based smartphone maker has fallen to fourth place globally in smartphone operating systems , behind Android phones, Apples iPhone and phones running Microsofts Windows, according to Huffington Post. This marks the first time the companys market share in the IDC rankings fell to fourth place. It had been ahead of Windows in earlier IDC surveys. And its far cry from the days just half a decade ago when BlackBerry commanded some 20 per cent of the global market and BlackBerrys much-publicized new smartphones have done little to stop the companys global decline, at least for the moment, according to new research. BlackBerry had a 2.9 per cent share of the global smartphone market in the second quarter of this year, down from 4.9 per cent in the same period last year, IDC reported, and down from 11.5 per cent in 2011 . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.