A new report from healthcare industry analysts GlobalData forecasts that the value of the global mobile health (m-Health) market will grow from $1.2 billion last year to $11.8 billion by 2018, the equivalent of 39% growth every year.

mHealth, which involves the use of mobile applications and devices to monitor a patient’s health remotely, is growing as the adoption of smartphones and tablets increases.

A new US-based study by Keynote Competitive Research, part of internet testing & monitoring group Keynote Systems, has found the most-frustrating mobile web experience for smartphone owners is web pages that are slow to load.

Two-thirds of respondents cited this as a recent problem, with ‘website not optimised for smartphone’ named as the next most frustrating issue.

Juniper Research is forecasting that the ‘bring your own device’ trend will see the number of employee-owned smartphones and tablets used at work more than doubling in the next two years. By 2014 there’ll be 350 million personal mobile devices being used at work, compared to less than 150 million this year.

It means almost 23% of all consumer-owned tablets and smartphones will have a business function as well.

HTC has published results for the second quarter of its financial year, with revenue of NT$91.04 billion (£1.95 billion) and net income of NT$7.40 billion.

Both figures are up from the previous quarter but down year-on-year.

Vodafone is planning to help innovative young businesses by opening a new technical facility in the 'Tech City' area of East London.

It follows the opening of Vodafone's xone in Silicon Valley last year and Telefonica's Wayra in London's Tottenham Court Road.