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• 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.

• 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?

• Smartphones penetration expected to soar by 2015

  Australian smartphone users are expected to hit 18.5 million by 2015, according to analyst firm Telstye.

• Warning: Cellphones will become a way to attack otherwise protected devices

  Mobile phones will become an increasing menace to network security that could drop malware onto protected devices when they dock to sync or plug into USB ports to charge, security experts say in a Georgia Tech report.

• IBM: After 30 years, PC going the way of the vacuum tube and typewriter

  Thirty years ago, IBM created the first personal computer running Microsoft's MS-DOS. Today, IBM and Microsoft seem to have very different views on the future of the PC.

• Malware able to record phone conversations looming: BitDefender

  The time will come for when malware evolves to record smartphone conversations and Android continues to be exploited, according to an international security expert.

• Smartphone usage on the rise

  Whether in bed, on the loo, in a business meeting or during a first date, a new survey suggests no place or moment is sacred when it comes to using a smartphone.