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• Google to launch Cloud storage 'Drive' soon - reports

  By Sophie Curtis | 11 February, 2012 01:27

  Google is rumoured to be on the verge of launching a new Cloud-based storage product, which has been described as the search giant's answer to Dropbox.

• 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.

• Much of Western U.S. is a 3G wasteland, says FCC

  By Brad Reed | 11 February, 2012 08:25

  Anyone making a road trip across America should expect their mobile data service to basically not exist throughout much of the Western United States.

• Apple tops the $100B+ tech club

  By John Dix | 11 February, 2012 03:23

  Ten years ago Apple posted revenue of $5.3 billion, a mere gnat compared to the IBM elephant which topped all tech companies with sales of $85.8 billion.

• 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.

• 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.

• Stoke gateway could ramp up carriers' Wi-Fi offerings

  By Stephen Lawson | 10 February, 2012 12:49

  Mobile operators will be able to plug in an appliance to easily roll Wi-Fi hotspots into their networks if infrastructure vendor Stoke delivers the product it is promising in the third quarter.

• Technology argument 5: 4G wireless vs. 5G wireless

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 07 November, 2011 09:12

  Using more spectrum and advanced antennas, vendors and operators plan to increase mobile speeds. But the key to increasing speeds as researchers look at future networks, which will someday be dubbed 5G by marketers, is to shorten the distance between users and base stations, and allowing them to automatically be reconfigured.

• Technology argument 5: iPad vs. everything else

  By John Cox | 02 November, 2011 21:33

  We debated whether to call this piece "iPad vs. Motorola Xoom" or "iPad vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" or whatever the Android tablet du jour is. But really it's still "iPad vs Everything Else."

• Want better Wi-Fi? Five things you need

  By Logan G. Harbaugh | 27 October, 2011 08:27

  Laptops used to be the only devices on the company's wireless network. But Wi-Fi has become a ubiquitous standard used by a host of devices -- including desktop PCs, laptops, netbooks, tablets, smartphones, printers, storage devices, and projectors.

• Car tech: The connected car arrives

  By John Brandon | 27 October, 2011 06:53

  Automobile technology has become so advanced that today's cars are essentially computers with wheels. So why aren't we using them to surf the Web, communicate with other cars or order food at nearby restaurants?

• Gartner: The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2012

  By Michael Cooney | 19 October, 2011 04:41

  ORLANDO -- The technology that makes up many of the systems in the ITworld today is at a critical juncture and in the next five years everything from mobile devices and applications to servers and social networking will impact IT in ways companies need to prepare for now, Gartner Vice President David Cearley says.

• Patent madness! A timeline of the Android patent wars

  By Brad Reed | 21 September, 2011 06:26

  History may look at Android as the tech industry's Helen of Troy: The OS that launched a thousand suits.

• Google Wallet: A hands-on in the real world - and there are problems

  By Megan Geuss | 20 September, 2011 06:30

  The much-anticipated Google Wallet app debuts today - for now, available only on the Sprint Nexus S 4G phone.

• 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.