The Smartphone market is characterised by increasing competition on one hand and healthy growth prospects in the medium-term on the  other. Barriers to entry are high for most players, owing to the global nature of the  mobile industry and the consequent financial strength required to enter the market. 

The global adult industry is among the largest in the world, estimated to be worth nearly $100 billion worldwide by 2006. 

With the announcement of Android 2.2, code named "Froyo," Google targets the enterprisemarket for the first time. This release has features to enable devices that can be grantedsupport under the "appliance level" of the Gartner Managed Diversity Framework. 

Learn more about the evolution of Apple in the enterprise and learn how you can make shifting standards and multiple platforms work together to benefit your organization. 

Juniper Research analyses the growing market for mobile apps in this report extract. 

The tablet market is characterised by intense interest from a multiplicity of players on one hand, and a virtually untested market place on the other. 

Visibility into your network and applications is vital to ensure a consistent and cost-effective delivery of services to your end-users. Access this whitepaper to learn about software that can help you gain this vital visibility and make your network more efficient. 

This edition of BI Trends & Strategies features a lead article by SearchCIO.com's Linda Tucci, who offers a helping hand in the quest to dismantle the dreaded data silo. The second piece outlines mobile BI, including a reference to Apple's iPad, and the final article delves into the world of performance management. 

Improve performance, implement security procedures, and institute server redundancy that is invisible to the user by leveraging the strategic point of control that exists between the servers in the data center and the Internet. 

Tim Zimmerman, Gartner research director offers some practical advice to organisations wanted to use iPads on their corporate wireless networks. 

From the turn of the millennium until the end of 2007 MLBS (Mobile Location Based Services) had promised much, but delivered very little in terms of commercial applications. Even in Japan and South Korea, the most advanced markets for commercial MLBS, usage was disappointing. 

Music services on the mobile handset are uniquely positioned to become a key platform within the music industry. Since the turn of the millennium, sales of physical music – CDs etc. – have slowly declined yearon-year, largely as a result of online piracy. 

Explore how a unified, policy-driven management strategy can offer you a holistic approach to network management. Learn how you can drastically improve network visibility and reduce troubleshooting time through a client- or user-focused approach to managing corporate networks – especially in the age of mobility and cloud computing.