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  IN PICTURES: Huawei mobile broadband demo truck

• iPhone 5 rumour rollup for the week ending June 1

  By John Cox | 01 June, 2012 16:36

  It's amazing Apple hasn't sunk, given how many purported leaks began spouting blueprints, parts and chips this past week. The iOSphere pulled on its boots and began splashing in the puddles, with Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference drawing near.

• Samsung buys Swedish wireless chip company Nanoradio

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 June, 2012 10:32

  Samsung Electronics has acquired Nanoradio, a Swedish company that develops energy-efficient chipsets for Wi-Fi, it said on Friday.

• BYOD's phone number problem

  By Tom Kaneshige | 31 May, 2012 22:06

  A simple smartphone number can be an incredibly important corporate asset, but companies will have to give it up in a BYOD scenario.

• Biggest tech industry layoffs of 2012

  By Bob Brown | 30 May, 2012 20:25

  Research in Motion, reeling as its BlackBerry takes a beating from the Apple iPhone and assorted Android smartphones, is expected to lay off anywhere from 2000 to 6000 employees to cut costs and turn around its financial fortunes. While the exact number of layoffs from RIM's 16,000-plus staff remains to be confirmed, the restructured company appears headed for a high rank on this year's list of tech industry layoffs.

• Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

  By Grant Gross | 24 May, 2012 23:37

  Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries.

• Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying

  By Grant Gross | 24 May, 2012 20:53

  Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries.

• Jailbreak of Apple iOS 5.1.1 due 'in days'

  By John Cox | 23 May, 2012 04:26

  Hackers claim to be just days away from jailbreaking Apple devices running iOS 5.1.1, the latest firmware release for iPhones and iPads, letting users load applications from outside of Apple's iTunes App Store.

• Sidecar app for iOS, Android seeks to give smartphone voice calls overdue respect

  By Bob Brown | 22 May, 2012 22:26

  Sidecar, a born-again startup whose founders hail from Internet media services company Real Networks, Tuesday is launching an eponymous app for iPhones and Android smartphones that's designed to make it easier for people to share videos, photos and more while talking on those devices.

• What enterprise mobile apps can learn from mobile games

  By John Cox | 15 May, 2012 01:31

  Enterprise mobile apps are shifting from small, narrowly task-oriented programs to larger, more complex ones. To design them well, enterprise developers can learn a lot from a surprising source: mobile games.

• From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation

  By Johna Till Johnson | 23 April, 2012 21:32

  IT as we know it is over.

• BYOD battle: A tale of two opposing IT viewpoints

  By Ellen Messmer | 19 April, 2012 20:33

  EdSouth is a bank holding company active in the student-loan arena, and Arrow Container Corp. manufactures cartons and containers. Their ideas about letting employees use their own mobile devices at work for business — what's often called "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) — couldn't be more different.

• Hot for this quarter: The best smartphones

  By Brad Reed | 19 April, 2012 08:45

  Device manufacturers are starting to roll out some of their marquee smartphones in an effort to generate some buzz before Apple inevitably drops its newest iPhone this (northern) summer.

• Hold the phone: retailers eye payments via smartphone

  By Maria Korolov | 26 March, 2012 22:26

  An emerging technology called Near Field Communication will soon give new meaning to the phrase "tapped out."

• Case study: Designing 'iPad WLANs' poses new, renewed challenges

  By John Cox | 26 March, 2012 15:31

  Complications that the influx of Apple iPads and iPhones bring to enterprise Wi-Fi networks and wireless LAN administrators are illustrated vividly at The Ottawa Hospital in Ontario.

• FAQ: What you need to know now about the 'new iPad'

  By Gregg Keizer | 09 March, 2012 08:00

  Yesterday, Apple pulled off the wraps from the new iPad -- yes, that's the official name -- and spent more than an hour on a San Francisco stage touting what's changed, like the screen, and what hasn't, like the price.

• 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.