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• Cloud storage vendor wants to ease mobile collaboration

  By Brandon Butler | 29 March, 2012 02:28

  When files are stored in the cloud, many companies need access to them on mobile devices. And once they're on those devices, users want to be able to edit the files and place them back into the cloud. That process has been difficult at times, experts say, but cloud collaboration vendor, Box, is making some moves to address it.

• yARN: A new economic model for computing

  By Stephen Withers | 29 July, 2011 11:04

  One server is required to support every 600 smartphones, according to Allyson Klein, the director of leadership marketing within Intel's data centre group, Tablets are more demanding, she says, with a ratio of one server per 120 tablets. Klein describes this as a new economic model for computing.

• Huawei picks Simms International for the enterprise market

  By Spandas Lui | 29 June, 2011 14:53

  Chinese communications vendor, Huawei, has appointed Simms International as a distributor for its enterprise product range.

• Kroll Ontrack: Local consumers and enterprises should plan IT deployments

  By Hafizah Osman | 27 June, 2011 11:54

  With the onset of the new financial year and next-generation IT infrastructure being potentially deployed, Kroll Ontrack has issued a call for Australian consumers and enterprises to plan for how they retire old computers or systems.

• Where does Palm go from here?

  By Matt Hamblen | 26 February, 2010 08:31

  Smartphone industry pundits wonder whether Palm can survive another year, given Palm's guidance today that its new smartphone sales expectations.

• IDC: 1 billion mobile devices will go online by 2013

  By Agam Shah | 10 December, 2009 08:54

  The growing demand for online applications could push the number of mobile devices accessing the Internet past 1 billion by 2013, IDC said in a survey issued on Wednesday.

• IBM allocates $100M for research in mobile communications

  By John Ribeiro | 18 June, 2009 04:06

  IBM is allocating US$100 million to research in mobile communications over the next five years.

• Mobile industry split over UMA versus femtocells

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 13 October, 2008 10:00

  As mobile data traffic continues to increase, with more generated by home users, operators are under pressure to adopt either UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) or femtocells, both of which have a lot going for them, according to their respective proponents.

• TechCrunch50 highlights mobile, text input tools

  By Paul Krill | 11 September, 2008 07:36

  Ventures in mobile computing and platform tools highlighted the TechCrunch50 2008 conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, with companies airing products ranging from a cross-platform environment for mobile systems to a next-generation text input technology.