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  Android apps for business users, at a glance

• Web app lets enterprise set security, sharing for Google Apps users

  By John Cox | 11 February, 2012 02:32

  A new security tool lets enterprise IT groups set access and share policies for employees, including mobile users, who are working with the online Google Apps suite.

• Mobile World Congress sneak peek: Quad-core smartphones, Ice Cream Sandwich & more

  By Bob Brown | 10 February, 2012 10:35

  It might be hard to imagine there will be that much more for makers of smartphones, tablets and other wireless offerings to reveal at Mobile World Congress at the end of this month after the deluge of products that debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show to kick off 2012. But Sony, HTC and others have gotten wireless watchers in a frenzy already by issuing MWC event invitations and stirring speculation about Android 4.0, Windows Phone and quad-core devices.

• Microsoft mobile CRM clients may mean more productivity

  By Tim Greene | 10 February, 2012 02:32

  The productivity of salespeople could jump with the upcoming release of native Microsoft Dynamics CRM applications for specific mobile platforms and put the software vendor ahead of some of its competitors, an expert says.

• Free Web tool consolidates data on code vulnerabilities

  By John Cox | 09 February, 2012 03:29

  Enterprise coders can now use an open source Web application that lets them consolidate software vulnerability data from a range of scanning and test tools. With a centralized view, and reporting and management tools, ThreadFix speeds the work needed to fix software bugs and vulnerabilities, including those in proliferating mobile apps.

• FTC warns background screening mobile apps may be unlawful

  By Michael Cooney | 08 February, 2012 05:26

  The Federal Trade Commission this week said it sent letters to six unidentified mobile applications makers warning them that their background screening apps may be violating federal statutes.

• Accessing the Internet by mobile device doubled in 2011, data shows

  By John Cox | 08 February, 2012 03:19

  Over the past 12 months, mobile access to the Internet nearly doubled to 8.5%, not counting tablets, according to data released this week by StatCounter, a Web analytics company.

• Apple warns iOS developers: Don't monkey with App Store rankings

  By Bob Brown | 08 February, 2012 03:19

  Apple has warned iOS developers not to use services that manipulate App Store rankings to make their iPhone and iPad apps seem more popular than they really are.

• Tips and tricks for upgrading your Android phone

  By Howard Wen | 30 January, 2012 23:32

  The biggest problem with the Android platform has been how slowly many phone makers release the latest version of the OS for their older models. It's also not unusual for them to never do so. (A company may not want to spend resources on phones they no longer sell; or, they and the carrier for a particular model may not agree on when to provide an update.)

• Chinese developers take a bite of the Apple

  By Maria Korolov and Wang Fangqing | 22 August, 2011 20:39

  If you've ever gone to Apple's mobile app store and purchased games like High Noon, Gamebox1 or Doodletruck, then you've downloaded an app from the burgeoning Chinese software development community.

• Five reasons mobile apps rule

  By Jared Newman | 20 January, 2010 04:15

  The mobile app craze, which was started by Apple's iPhone and has been perpetuated by any smartphone worth its plastic, shows no signs of slowing down, according to Gartner. The market researcher says mobile app revenue, which equaled $US4.2 billion last year, will hit $29.5 billion in 2013. For consumers, that's a good thing, because mobile apps rule. There's been some talk of Web apps eventually killing off the downloadable app market, and that may hold true in the long, long run. But, right now, mobile apps rule. Here are five reasons why.

• Mobile's future: Outrageous but possible predictions

  By Tom Kaneshige | 16 December, 2009 07:20

  'Tis the season of mobile predictions. As this year comes to an end and a new decade begins, Mobclix, which operates a mobile ad exchange network, has gazed into its crystal ball and foreseen 10 mobile trends-many of which are, in fact, pretty outrageous.

• Is Apple's iPhone App Store growing unwieldy?

  By Matt Peckham | 04 December, 2009 04:33

  Research firm IDC says Apple's App Store could stock in excess of a quarter million iPhone and iPod Touch applications, tripling current levels by the end of 2010. That's some number. Contrast with an estimated 10,000 Windows 7-compatible apps, over 700 (released as well as announced) Xbox 360 games, nearly 600 PS3 games, over 1,000 Wii games, over 600 DS games (from September 2008), and over 700 PSP games.

• Android, iPhone, BlackBerry: Which OS is best for app development?

  By Brad Reed | 04 December, 2009 06:00

  Let's say that you're a software developer who has created a hot new application for smartphones that you're certain is about to take the world by storm. Your work isn't quite done and here's the problem: not only will your brilliant and innovative application have to compete with several other applications that have similar ambitions, but it will have to compete with them over multiple platforms.

• Nokia sees mobile users wanting services over phones

  By Fred O'Connor | 20 May, 2009 10:14

  Services, such as maps and music downloads, will dictate how consumers select their mobile phones, and hardware will adapt to meet this trend, said Tero Ojanperä, Nokia's executive vice president of services.