The latest trends, market research and analysis, on handheld PCs, smartphones, and the mobile payment market from KPMG. 

This exclusive report for Computer Weekly readers by Juniper Research, offers a comprehensive briefing for senior IT professionals on the opportunities for NFC mobile payment technology, markets and trends. 

The definition of a mobile payment is often open to interpretation and can differ from source to source.    Juniper Research has a simple definition of a mobile payment as “payment for goods or services with a mobile device such as a phone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or other such device.” 

Access this white paper to uncover the benefits of video conferencing in today’s highly mobile business environment. Discover the key-elements that make up a business-grade video conferencing system, how video conferencing adds to collaboration, and the ROI of video conferencing. 

Juniper Research defines mobile banking as  “the provision of banking services to customers on their mobile devices”: specifically we mean in the vast majority of instances “the operation of bank current and deposit or savings accounts”. 

Inter-Process Communications (IPC) makes up the infrastructure that merges voice, data and video applications over a single network by enhancing IP telephony (VoIP) with technology such as conferencing, call transfers and forwarding. 

This document presents a reference architecture and additional controls needed to address the three cloud challenges to achieve PCI compliance. 

Hosted unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) helps organizations deploy collaboration tools to their workers more quickly and efficiently than premise-based solutions. This whitepaper explores the benefits of hosted UC&C, how to get started, what to look for in a solutions provider, and more. 

<p>In this exclusive E-Guide from SearchUnifiedCommunications.com, learn more about the intelligent network and how telepresence and visual collaboration is changing the modern enterprise. Uncover the extranet and desktop video requirements driving 2012 telepresence trends and how the iPad is changing enterprise video-conferencing strategies.</p> 

<p>This video examines various types of collaboration, including conferencing, video, and instant messaging. Discover how integrating communications can increase resource utilization, strengthen security, and reduce costs.</p> 

Read this expert guide to ensure your virtual environment is in compliance with PCI DSS 2.0 and avoid common errors made in the auditing process. 

This week’s Computer Weekly contains an exclusive interview with JP Morgan COO India Gary-Martin about juggling multiple legacy IT systems while keeping the merchant bank compliant. We also look at how near-field communications technology promises to revolutionise consumer spending and we ask whether 2012 could be the year that APM becomes vital? 

Access this month’s issue to uncover the latest tokenization trends (including, payment card data security, tokenization as a service, as well as protecting PII data) and explore how this revived technology not only offers enhanced data protection, but can ease the burden of compliance audits.