New Zealand IT decision-makers are optimistic, but cautious, about their investment plans this year, and an analyst report just published suggests that businesses will just get on with business as usual and still spend on IT despite the prevailing caution.

A burgeoning market for healthcare peripherals and increasing smartphone processing power will result in the number of patients monitored by mobile networks to rise to three million by 2016, according to a UK market report.

Australian-listed integrated mobile and digital communications company, Mobile Embrace, has raised $1.1 million in a private placement.

The boom in Internet-enabled mobile devices (IEMDs) is reshaping the European printing industry, offering new challenges and opportunities for hardcopy vendors, with analysts predicting a slow decline in future demand in print volumes for the traditional hardcopy vendors.

While mobile devices like smartphones are invariably the primary mode of personal and business communications in major, developed markets around the world, the next one billion of the world’s new mobile connections is likely to mainly come from remote rural areas in emerging markets, according to a newly published report.

VMware has got a tick of approval from one market analyst for its fourth quarter financial performance last year and the take-up of its core product offerings, including cloud-based products and services, but its also predicted that the company wil face increasing competition for marketshare from IBM and Microsoft.

Audio books services provider, Audiobooks.com, has launched what it claims is the first unlimited cloud-based audio book service which allows users to take advantage of unlimited audio content via an Android or Apple mobile device.

Using automotive paint protection technology, Nissan claims to have produced an iPhone case that can self-heal those annoying scratches that mar your retina display.

Finnish company, Miradore, an enabler of automated IT and mobile device management services, has just launched a new fully integrated device management solution for all major mobile and IT platforms.

Consumer demand for mobile data is exploding beyond market expectations, fuelled by new smartphones, apps and services, with the greatest demand coming from iPhone 4S users who have shown their huge appetite for information, demanding twice as much data as the iPhone 4 and 3G users.