• Wednesday Grok: Apple, Android and the rest — one chart to rule them all

  Why all the heat in the smartphone market lately? The endless Web pages of copy, the permanent and globally distributed legal jihad between Apple and Samsung.

• Smartphone buyers guide for the enterprise: FAQs

  Smartphone adoption in the enterprise continues to escalate with CIOs rating mobility as one of their top four priorities in 2012.

• Telstra’s new LG Optimus Spirit smartphone launched just in time for Christmas

  The LG Optimus Spirit, Telstra launched this week, has made the Christmas wish list.

• Woolworths revamps online service by upgrading supermarket app

  Australian retailer Woolworths has flagged plans to revamp its online presence following a 63 per cent growth in online sales for the 2011 financial year.

• Wednesday Grok: No juice in your sparkling iPhone 4S

  Batteries are boring...until they stop working, then they are very, very boring. Right now, the most boring battery in the world is the one in Apple's new iPhone 4S. Where's our talk time? Where's all that tasty standby time?

• 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.

Whitepapers about smartphone

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

  Website performance is a major pillar of the web experience; even the richest of sites will deliver a poor experience if it is not available or lags in load time or responsiveness. The stakes are rising as a new generation, accustomed to being constantly connected through mobile devices, advances to becoming the mainstream consumer market of tomorrow. Read on.

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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