Last November, Research In Motion announced its move into the multi-platform Mobile Device Management marketplace. BlackBerry Mobile Fusion was designed to help organisations manage a combination of smartphones and tablets running BlackBerry, Android and Apple iOS operating systems.

The service was launched as a closed beta and this week has been made available to all RIM enterprise customers.

Figures from ABI Research forecast that mobile users will download nearly 36 billion apps in 2012.

Android and Apple’s iOS will make up 83% of the app downloads, while only 2% will come from Windows Phone devices. However, although the Microsoft figure is relatively low, it’s double last year’s share.

Apple says more than 25 billion apps have now been downloaded from its App Store.

The 25 billionth app was downloaded from China by Chunli Fu, who will receive a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card as a reward.

It’s reported that Apple has acquired Chomp, an online service that allows users to search for applications based on their functions.

Apple is believed to have paid around $50 million, although financial details haven’t been confirmed.

Barclays has launched what it’s describing as Europe’s first person-to-person service for sending and receiving money using mobile phone numbers. It’s called Barclays Pingit and will allow anyone with a UK current account, UK mobile phone number and compatible smartphone to send and receive money at no additional cost.

The sending part of the service is currently only available to Barclays current account customers but is expected to be available to everyone by early March.