Amazon.com has updated its cloud-based music player - which is currently only for US-based customers - by giving it the ability to ‘scan and match’ music from other sources. It means the service will have similar abilities to the streaming music players offered by Apple iTunes and Google Music.

In order to offer the music matching service the company has signed  agreements with Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and more than 150 independent distributors, aggregators and music publishers.

Preliminary figures from the International Data Corporation estimate that worldwide tablet shipments for the second quarter of 2012 reached 25 million units, up 33.6% from the first quarter of 2012 and up 66.2% year-on-year.

Once again, Apple was the largest tablet producer, shipping 17 million iPad devices during the quarter. In fact, all the top four tablet vendors saw year-on-year growth.

New research prepared by Mobidia Technology and Informa Telecoms & Media has revealed that 4G LTE availability is stimulating increased data usage, not just on the 4G networks but also by 4G devices using WiFi networks.

The study involved a sample of the 1.5 million international users who have downloaded Mobidia’s 'My Data Manager' smartphone application.

Ralf-Gordon Jahns of research2guidance writes:

The ever increasing demand for access to company data on the go has compelled companies to address the complexity of application deployment, device management, security management and user support. These factors will lead mobile device policy setting to become one of the most important decisions for IT departments.

Everything Everywhere has announced a partnership with Mobile Virtual Network Aggregator Atmovia, which is part of the Viacloud Group.

It’s claimed that a new Mobile Virtual Network can be set up via Atmovia within just ten minutes.