This perspective paper covers the forces that are driving the m-commerce market, the benefits available, and the kinds of business models and partnerships that are seeking to achieve that credible scale over time. 

This white paper will highlight solutions for application development in globally dispersed organizations. Insights and strategies for maximizing efficiencies in a distributed environment will be presented, along with best practices. 

Juniper Research defines a mobile ticketing user as “someone who stores a ticket on their mobile phone for later redemption” at the point of travel, the music venue, the cinema etc. 

Explore the latest thinking on use of mobile technology to deliver business value by enabling sales and service processes – and transform processes across the enterprise. Business software vendors can best support their customers by collaborating with strategic partners to co-innovate and foster a mobile ecosystem. 

In this session, co-author of the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns" Gregor Hohpe shares some of the “behind the scenes” story of how the included enterprise application integration and message-oriented middleware design patterns originated, how they are being applied, and what other patterns he would like to see documented. 

In this chapter sample, from the guide Mastering Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, co-written by Mark Minasi, Willem Kasdorp as the contributing author and published by Wiley Publishing, learn how your existing environment and upgrade/migration plans impact your installation decisions and read about requirements for this new operating system. 

This chapter download, from the guide Mastering Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, co-written by Mark Minasi, provides an introduction to Hyper-V, highlighting information essential for building your own small environment using only native Windows software. 

Effective management of WAN performance and security starts with gaining full visibility into how network capacity is being used by both the applications and the users on the network. This expert e-guide takes a close look at best practices for managing virtualized resources and applications for optimal performance. 

This Whitepaper focuses on transport mobile ticketing. The full end-to-end mobile commerce transaction involves the purchase, storage and redemption of tickets on the mobile device. 

Download Silver Peak’s VX-Xpress is the world’s first self-service website for Virtual WAN Optimization. 

This benchmarking study from ESI International identifies the trends impacting the project management function in IT industry in three areas: PMO maturity, measuring and reporting on PMO effectiveness, as well as training involvement. 

This research from management consultants, Xantus, shows that while there is still a lack of clarity and a reluctance to fully commit to the cloud, there is a general acceptance from CIOs of the benefits and a growing commitment to develop those benefits. 

In this week's issue of Computer Weekly, we look at the key technologies that retailers are turning to for IT-enabling customers' Christmas shopping. We examine research revealing the huge cost of application software that fails to meet requirements; and we talk to one of the pioneers of agile software development. Download the new issue now.