Vendors in the global mobile device market have been warned that to be consistently successful they must shift their focus to designing mobile products or building server infrastructures ready to support mobile users, bundling products with useful, relevant software or services whenever possible, and making products adaptable to the changing and increasing demands of consumers and enterprises.

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has unveiled what it claims to be the world's smallest SIM card, the first nano-SIM, two thirds the size of the micro-SIM.

Ernst & Young's 14th annual Global Information Security Survey shows that organisations are racing to adopt new technologies, but in their rush are neglecting the threat of security issues.

Juniper and Samsung are to expand their collaboration on delivering comprehensive mobile security, secure connectivity and device management capabilities for enterprise customers of Samsung high-end smart mobile devices.

If you are wondering why you need to have a mobile device policy inside your small to medium sized business, the simple answer is that everything has “gone mobile”. Software applications have been migrating to mobile (smartphone, tablet or ‘other’) versions of themselves with extremely predictable levels of regularity, so employees are using their mobile devices as well as (and sometimes instead of) their desktop computers.

Consumers usage of mobile handsets for voice or text-based communications is expected to drop significantly over the next five years, prompting a warning to operators that have traditionally focused solely on network-centric strategies and not consumer engagement.

As a small business owner or employee, you and your fellow staff members are probably keen to get your hands on the latest smartphones, tablet PCs and portable laptop computers to help you with your daily routine in and out of the office.

Consumers are helping to drive up the demand for media tablets as they increasingly adopt usage of the devices to hit gaming sites, browse the Web and engage with social networks when they are mobile.

Major aXes Revamp Extends Cloud Computing for the IBM i -- Access your COBOL and RPG applications via the Cloud and via mobile devices

LG Electronics and VMware have formed a partnership under which LG will deploy virtualisation technology from VMware on mobile devices that will enable corporate IT departments to create a second 'virtual device' on users cellphones etc that can be secured and managed.