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• iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending May 17

  By John Cox | 18 May, 2013 00:15

  There's nothing like exclusive, high resolution, leaked photographs of arcane internal iPhone components to trigger the gaga reflex in the iOSphere. It takes skill, honed by long experience with rumoring, to read into them far, far more than is actually there.

• Windows Phone claims third place in the smartphone wars, but challenges await

  By Ian Paul | 16 May, 2013 19:41

  Microsoft's Windows Phone may be struggling to gain a foothold in the US, but the software giant and Nokia are starting to see results on a global scale: Windows Phone was the third-most popular mobile smartphone operating system worldwide between January and March.

• Samsung Link to replace AllShare Play multimedia-sharing app

  By Agam Shah | 16 May, 2013 19:39

  Samsung's AllShare Play application, which allows file sharing among the company's mobile devices, has been renamed Link, and it has a new user interface and search features.

• New iPhone: Sapphire crystal fingerprint scanner 'to be embedded in home button'

  By Karen Haslam | 17 May, 2013 08:28

  There have been plenty of rumours circulating that Apple is planning to incorporate fingerprint readers into the new iPhone, and now confirmation that this is the case appears to have come from PayPal.

• Retina iPad mini 'will feature new processor chip'

  By Karen Haslam | 16 May, 2013 18:18

  A 'tipster' claims that the new iPad mini will get the A6X chip to power its Retina display

• Android takes 75 per cent of the smartphone market

  By Chris Martin | 16 May, 2013 08:28

  Google Android smartphones are dominating the market, according to the latest figures from Gartner. The numbers show that during the first quarter of 2013 Android smartphones accounted for 74.4 percent of global sales.

• Google I/O: A lower-key Android keynote, but devs get huge set of new tools

  By Jon Gold | 15 May, 2013 21:02

  Those hoping for a major new Android version or splashy device launch were likely disappointed by the Android portion of the keynote today at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco – but developers may have gotten more than they bargained for.

• Google supercharges Android gaming with Cloud saves, matchmaking

  By Brad Chacos | 16 May, 2013 08:20

  Attention Android gamers: Now, what happens in Vice City on your phone doesn't have to stay in Vice City on your phone - or even on Android.

• 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.

• Google woos developers as software becomes more important

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 17 May, 2013 15:43

  Google did its best to court developers at this year's I/O conference with a much-needed integrated developer environment, API for better games and the ability to more easily translate apps. Their allegiance will become increasingly important as smartphone and tablet hardware sees fewer dramatic improvements.

• Nokia reboots Windows Phone push in the US but success will still be hard-won

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 May, 2013 17:02

  Nokia's is rebooting its U.S. Windows Phone push with the arrival of the low-cost Lumia 521 on T-Mobile and Lumia 928 for Verizon Wireless, but increasing sales to meaningful volumes in the very competitive U.S. market will not be easy.

• Google Wallet chief's resignation another bad sign for NFC

  By Matt Hamblen | 10 May, 2013 14:34

  The chief of the Google Wallet operation has resigned to pursue new opportunities, another sign of continuing troubles in convincing U.S. smartphone users to adopt mobile wallets using NFC technology.

• The BlackBerry Q10 has a nice keyboard but falls short everywhere else

  By Hayden Dingman | 09 May, 2013 08:45

  The BlackBerry Q10 is a solidly built piece of hardware that will please those who've waited for a new physical-keyboard BlackBerry, but its small screen and limited app support will keep many away.

• Opinion: Microsoft's smartwatch - Been there, didn't do that

  By Preston Gralla | 06 May, 2013 10:08

  Vendors are falling all over themselves to develop smartwatches. Will this be yet one more example of Microsoft getting to a market first and then failing to cash in?

• Opinion: What I learned living abroad as a digital nomad

  By Mike Elgan | 05 May, 2013 06:10

  Digital nomad Mike Elgan returns to the US. after 10 months of travel and shares these tips for working and living abroad.

• The best to-do apps on Android

  By Evan Dashevsky | 03 May, 2013 08:25

  A variety of tools and services can help you keep track of all the stuff you need to take care of in your life. Here, we present the best to-do apps and services for the Android user who has way too many things to do.

• Blackberry CEO's comments ignite debate on future of personal computing

  By Matt Hamblen | 01 May, 2013 19:08

  BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins' prediction that tablets would decline in popularity provoked debate on what will happen over the next five to 10 years to smartphones, tablets and laptops -- even wearable computers -- and what devices users might eventually prefer.