• Android 5.0 to launch with five Nexus devices: Report

  When Android 5.0 “Jelly Bean” launches this [southern] Spring, it will appear first on several new mobile devices sold by Google itself as part of the “Nexus” line.

• Mobile BYOD users want more security

  A survey of more than 4000 mobile-device users and IT professionals shows wildly abundant use of mobile devices, but profound concerns about security and how employee-owned devices ought to be used for business purposes.

• Samsung Australia quiet on Galaxy S III

  Samsung may have unveiled its hotly anticipated Galaxy S III Android phone at a lavish event in London this morning, but it appears Australia has been left in the dark — at least for now.

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  Jawbone boosts its wireless speakers

  Jawbone is rolling out an even louder version of its portable wireless speakers, which have caught fire among smartphone and tablet users.

• Free apps kill smartphone battery life

  Those free apps like Angry Birds, Instagram and Tiny Wings may be loads of fun, but they suck the battery life out of your smartphone by tracking your geographical location, sending information about you to advertisers and downloading ads.

• Smaller iPad could be a better business tool

  The Apple iPad has been an unqualified success with consumers, but it's a harder sell in the businesse market.

• Nokia launches new assault in patent battle, your move Apple

  If Apple was expecting Nokia to back down and retract its patent lawsuit after Apple countersued, apparently Nokia didn't get the memo. Nokia has launched a fresh assault, filing a new complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that virtually every product Apple makes violates seven patents held by it.

• Apple and Microsoft: tour de smartphone force for iPhone

  "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

• Smartphone battery life: 20 ways to juice it up

  It's difficult enough to keep plain-vanilla mobile phones charged for a busy day of just talking. But these days, we also use our smartphones for e-mail, surfing the Web, editing documents, accessing corporate networks, text messaging, enjoying music and video, playing games, managing our personal information and much more -- making it all the more catastrophic when our devices run out of juice.

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  Cloud printing in the enterprise: liberating the mobile print experience from cables, operating systems and physical boundaries

  In recent years mobile technology has proliferated throughout the enterprise. Today, virtually no one in the workforce is bound to a desk to work, check e-mail or communicate with co-workers and customers. At the same time, we’re seeing the rise of cloud technologies, loosely defined as online resources, often provided as a service, that manage the data and software that used to run solely on PCs. This merger of mobile and cloud technologies is on its way to becoming one of most significant enablers of business productivity and innovation seen in the past decade. Read more.

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  OVUM VIEW: The business case for assuring the customer mobile Web experience

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  Mobile Enterprise Solutions: Mobility Suite and the Sybase

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  10 Best Practices: Controlling Smartphone Access to Corporate Networks