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• Samsung Galaxy S III plans and prices compared

  By Campbell Simpson | 31 May, 2012 16:00

  If you're keen on buying a Samsung Galaxy S III, you've got two choices. You can buy the phone outright -- either from an Australian telco, from an Australian distributor like Allphones, or from an overseas importer -- or you can buy it on a plan from Vodafone, Telstra, Optus or Virgin Mobile.

• APP OF THE DAY: FrameUrLifeFree

  By Spandas Lui | 01 June, 2012 11:04

  As the name suggests, FrameUrLife, is an app that adds pretty frames to existing photos on your iPhone.

• Samsung confident in 3G Galaxy S III

  By Ross Catanzariti | 31 May, 2012 13:06

  Samsung's latest flagship Android phone won't be available in a 4G model for Australia, but the company says it is confident in the 3G version for now.

• yARN: Are we in for a fresh wave of interest in virtual desktops?

  By Stephen Withers | 30 May, 2012 08:45

  The traditional reason for considering virtual desktops in place of conventional PCs has been TCO, with much of the saving coming from the ongoing management and administration benefits. But those savings largely accrued because of the difficulty of managing large numbers of PCs, so small businesses couldn’t really benefit unless they went down the DaaS (desktop as a service) route.

• Apple ramps up new MacBook Pro production, to hit stores in July

  By Ashleigh Allsopp | 30 May, 2012 08:29

  Production of Apple's new MacBooks is ramping up, causing labour shortages in the supply chain.

• Scary times ahead for smartphone vendors: analyst

  By Mikael Ricknas | 30 May, 2012 08:16

  The rest of 2012 will be very challenging for smartphone makers as they struggle to find ways to differentiate their "black slabs," Richard Kramer, managing partner at Arete Research, said during the opening address at the Open Mobile Summit conference in London.

• iPhone 5 rumour rollup for the week ending May 27

  By John Cox | 30 May, 2012 08:12

  Perhaps iPhone 5 should be called iPhone 3.999, the finely calculated diagonal measurement of what many in the iOSphere believe is the new, bigger, better display of the next iPhone.

• Facebook could buy Nokia to build 'FacePhone', expert claims

  By Matt Hamblen | 30 May, 2012 07:59

  While a potential Facebook smartphone was ridiculed by analysts, one Paris-based marketing expert predicted a "FacePhone" will happen in 18 months, and the social networking giant will buy Nokia for $10 billion to make it happen.

• SNAPSHOT: The name game

  By Patrick Budmar | 07 November, 2011 11:16

  What’s in a name? Plenty, according to Ingres A/NZ and APAC general manager, Jason Leonidas

• INSIDE STORY: Identifying the innovation shift

  By Patrick Budmar | 12 September, 2011 16:53

  Australian Platform-as-a-Service provider, BlinkMobile, recently won a number of innovation awards for its Blink Mobility Platform. ARN caught up with BlinkMobile director, Darren Besgrove, to talk about the company’s positioning in the marketplace and its innovative approach to enabling mobility.

• Near field communication use growing outside smartphones

  By Agam Shah | 23 May, 2012 05:17

  A growing number of smartphones have near field communication (NFC) capabilities to make mobile payments, but accessories and ultrabooks also now increasingly have the same technology.

• Asus Transformer Pad TF300 review: Value tablet delivers a solid, but mixed, experience

  By Melissa J. Perenson | 23 April, 2012 01:06

  The 10.1-inch Asus Transformer Pad TF300 aims to reshape the tablet market by delivering top-tier performance at a value price. It largely succeeds in this mission, delivering performance that's on a par with its pricier Transformer Prime sibling.

• Four critical trends in IT business continuity

  By Bob Violino | 03 April, 2012 00:28

  In IT, failure is not an option. Not surprisingly, organizations have made it a high priority to develop and implement reliable business continuity plans to ensure that IT services are always available to internal users and outside customers.

• Mobile malware: Beware drive-by downloads on your smartphone

  By Meridith Levinson | 23 March, 2012 07:39

  While Jeff Schmidt, the CEO of JAS Global Advisors, was surfing the Web on his new Android smartphone (his first Android phone) earlier this year, what appeared to be an ad popped up on his screen. The "ad" looked like the prompt that appears when his phone rings. He clicked the button on the ad to pick up the putative call, and the ad began downloading a binary file - malware - onto his Android phone. Schmidt had been hit by a drive-by download, a program that automatically installs malicious software on end-users' computers--and increasingly, smartphones--without them knowing.

• This year's mobile screens will stun and amaze

  By Mike Elgan | 06 March, 2012 02:28

  It seems like all phones and all tablets do all things for all people these days. Every single smartphone and touch tablet has become just about everything anyone could ever want in a mobile device.

• Guide: How and when to build a mobile website

  By Jennifer Lonoff Schiff | 16 February, 2012 03:39

  As of November 2011, 91.4 million people in the United States-owned smartphones, according to comScore. That was an 8 per cent increase over just a few months before. And if the trend continues, as most analysts and smartphone vendors believe it will, the number of individuals in the United States with a smartphone will be close to, if not exceed, 100 million by March 2012 - that's nearly one out of three Americans. And that's not including the number of people using iPads and tablet PCs, which was well over 15 million as of June 2011, per CTIA, the Wireless Association.

• How to buy a tablet

  By Melissa J. Perenson | 13 February, 2012 15:00

  As more tablets come to market, be prepared to be wowed by the power that some of these slates are capable of. You'll find plenty of models out there, including tablets with impressive dual-core processors or even quad-core chips. And many tablets can satisfy specific needs. The iPad 2 shines bright, but it isn't the only star in the tablet universe.

• Everything we know about Apple's new TV project

  By Ben Camm-Jones | 08 December, 2011 11:00

  It's widely accepted in the technology industry that Apple is working on a smart, internet-connected TV device. But what do we really know about the 'iTV' so far? There's been a lot of speculation flying around about an Apple TV set for several years, and many times it has been reported that Apple has been on the brink of an announcement - only for our hopes to be dashed at the last minute.