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GlobalOne, a technology consulting firm specialising in cloud-based systems for enterprises, has hired the former application development team of Vodafone Australia, and its head Doug Maloney, to form a new unit that will offer professional services for building, deploying and maintaining mobile cloud apps for both consumer and enterprise environments.

As general manager innovation and new business at Vodafone Hutchinson Australia Maloney headed the company's in-house development team, Appland. He will now head GlobalOne's new GlobalMobility practice as vice president mobility.

With the move of the Appland team to GlobalOne, GlobalMobility has secured a contract to build, deploy and maintain mobile applications for Vodafone Australia.

GlobalOne CEO, David Northington, said: "We are thrilled to have Doug Maloney and his team join GlobalOne. The Appland team has been wildly successful bringing highly scalable apps such as Who2Call and Cricket LIVE Australia to the consumer market."

He added: "It's time that companies were enabled to meet their desire to use mobile as a serious platform for business applications. This new practice will focus on the tremendous opportunity to bring consumer-style user experience and scale to mobile enterprise applications."

GlobalOne Mobility promises to "offer clients a unique combination of mobile consumer app expertise along with cloud computing, SaaS, CRM and social enterprise experience to deliver highly innovative mobile cloud applications'¦[and] help clients build a vision and roadmap for mobile applications within their organisation and then build and deploy mobile social enterprise apps that extend the Cloud to mobile devices."

Maloney said: "Companies are struggling with employees and partners who want to use mobile devices as their main business tool. But most organisations only support a few traditional mobile applications such as email, calendaring and contact management.

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