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ExclusiveMicrosoft cuts its mobile staff, Apple finds a new partner and Yahoo! makes an acquisition

Podcasts Mark - July 23, 2014

We start this week's podcast with news that thousands of Microsoft's ex-Nokia employees are losing their jobs.

Other topics for discussion include the new Apple and IBM partnership, Yahoo's acquisition of Flurry, regulating mobile games, improving rural mobile coverage, BT's new phone service and some management movements.

ExclusiveApple and IBM announce an exclusive partnership to benefit business users

News Mark - July 21, 2014

Apple and IBM have announced an exclusive partnership that’ll see IBM creating business-focussed applications for iPhone and iPad devices.

As part of the deal, IBM will also sell iPhones and iPads to its business clients with its apps already installed.

ExclusiveWelcome to the digitised city

Opinion Mark - April 6, 2014

Jürgen Hase of Deutsche Telekom writes:

The Smart City is on its way. All over the world more and more cities are connecting all areas of their infrastructure. Pisa in Tuscany, for example, aims to improve its traffic management with a machine-to-machine (M2M) solution and a Big Data service provided by Deutsche Telekom.

ExclusiveIBM, smartphones and a graffiti wall: what's the real message?

Opinion Mark - March 2, 2014

Mark Bridge writes:

I was ready to poke fun at IBM for its sponsored graffiti wall at Mobile World Congress this year. Graffiti and IBM don't have a comfortable history, as anyone who remembers the Linux campaign from 2001 will tell you.

ExclusiveThe Apple iPhone first appeared seven years ago

Opinion Mark - January 9, 2014

Mark Bridge writes:

In a way, it’s hard to believe that the first Apple iPhone wasn’t seen in public until this day seven years ago. It - and the trend towards one-piece smartphones with hardly any buttons - seems to have been with us for much longer.

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