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• Acer shows off CloudMobile smartphone ahead of Mobile World Congress

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 11 February, 2012 11:55

  Mobile World Congress doesn't start until the end of February, but it appears some phone makers aren't very patient. According to phone blog Pocket-lint, Acer has leaked some details on its latest handset, the Acer CloudMobile.

• iPhone 5 rumour rollup for the week ending February 10

  By John Cox | 11 February, 2012 09:30

  In the iOSsphere calendar, Valentine's Day 2012 will be in June. Bring your sweetheart to San Francisco.

• Motorola Mobility fails to make patent case against Apple in German court

  By Peter Sayer | 11 February, 2012 03:31

  A German court has thrown out a Motorola Mobility patent lawsuit against Apple, breaking a recent run of courtroom successes for the company.

• Blogger exposes major Google Wallet security flaw

  By Brad Reed | 11 February, 2012 03:23

  If you took one look at Google Wallet and said to yourself, "There's no way that's completely secure," it turns out you were right.

• Japan's largest carrier to launch test service to combat Android fragmentation

  By Jay Alabaster | 10 February, 2012 23:59

  Japan's largest mobile operator is prepping an elaborate testing center, with hundreds of handsets monitored by streaming web cameras, to help software developers debug their apps on the growing morass of Android devices and software versions.

• 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.

• Coming soon from BlackBerry: Five things to look forward to

  By Al Sacco | 10 February, 2012 10:16

  These are dark days for Research In Motion (RIM) and its BlackBerry brand... or at least dim ones.

• Androids don't age well compared to iPhones

  By Daniel Ionescu | 10 February, 2012 01:57

  Apple's iPhone is a better investment than any other smartphone because it has a higher resale value than an Android device, and it's also less expensive to own. That's according to a study from Priceonomics.

• CIO Rebecca Jacoby steers Cisco's IT ship

  By Stephen Lawson | 14 December, 2010 08:29

  Running the internal IT operations of Cisco Systems is a big job not just because of the size of the company -- more than 70,000 employees worldwide and a market capitalisation in the range of $US100 billion -- but also because Cisco is continually developing new IT products across a broad range of technologies and is known for rapidly adopting those products for its own use. Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby spoke with IDG News Service on the sidelines of the NetWork conference last week and shared some insights into the legendary enterprise IT company's own enterprise IT.

• Smartphone data shake-up: The end of 'unlimited'

  By JR Raphael | 09 February, 2012 02:04

  Americans like living large. We have all-you-can-eat buffets and all-you-can-stream entertainment. And, until recently, we had a virtually unlimited trough of mobile data to digest on our always-available smartphones.

• HTC Velocity 4G speedtest

  By Ross Catanzariti | 24 January, 2012 15:40

  The HTC Velocity 4G promises data speeds of up to five times faster than its competitors, but is it really that fast? We put it to the test.

• A first look at the Nokia Lumia 800

  By Ross Catanzariti | 20 January, 2012 11:39

  Nokia's Lumia 800 represents somewhat of a new dawn for the struggling giant. It's the first phone to use the Windows Phone platform, following Nokia's decision early last year to partner with Microsoft for many of its future smartphones.

• The good stuff: iOS accessories on display at CES

  By Serenity Caldwell, Alexandra Chang | 13 January, 2012 08:54

  The International Consumer Electronics Show is a veritable electronics smorgasbord, full-to-brimming with televisions, tablets, telephones, and cameras. The iOS accessories market is no different, getting its very own dedicated pavilion at CES. Here are some of the standout products we’ve seen in both the iLounge Pavilion and the rest of the show floor throughout our CES travels.

• 2011 in review: The year in iOS

  By Lex Friedman | 30 December, 2011 05:31

  In 2011, as in 2010, iOS received a lot of attention from Apple. Apple introduced significant updates to its flagship iOS devices--the iPad and the iPhone. It added a new buying option to the App Store, perhaps rescuing the magazine industry in the process. It premiered an insanely powerful and brilliantly designed piece of software that proved unequivocally that iOS devices aren't just for consumption. And, of course, the company unveiled a significant upgrade to its touch-based operating system itself. And then a not-so-tiny upstart named Amazon tried to leap into the tablet computing fray, too.

• A user's guide to Android Ice Cream Sandwich

  By Armando Rodriguez | 27 December, 2011 01:26

  After months of waiting, the Galaxy Nexus (and by extension, Android 4.0, aka "Ice Cream Sandwich") is finally here. We've already done an extensive review of the hardware, so here we will be looking much more closely at Ice Cream Sandwich. Whether you are an Android veteran or a smartphone first-timer, this new version of Google's mobile operating system has a few things you should know about before getting started.

• Tablets in 2012: What to Expect

  By Melissa J. Perenson | 09 December, 2011 01:48

  What will tablets look like in the coming year? Tablets are out of their infancy and moving into adolescence--which means that we can expect big changes ahead as tablets' design and components improve.

• Review: Samsung Galaxy Nexus

  By Ross Catanzariti | 06 December, 2011 13:34

  Google and Samsung have finally released the Galaxy Nexus - the first smartphone to run the latest 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" version of Android.