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• Interest in smartphones is flattening

  Both Apple and Samsung this week predicted slow growth for smartphone and mobile phone sales in early 2016, making investors queasy.

• Apple and IBM partnership yields 100 iOS enterprise apps

  Less than a year-and-a-half after Apple and IBM teamed up to create the MobileFirst for iOS program, the tech giants have released 100 iOS apps that target 65 professions across 14 industries including healthcare, banking and travel.

• Is Apple's walled garden showing signs of erosion?

  A rudimentary malware attack that infected hundreds of iOS apps before Apple caught on puts a spotlight on security and brings into question the market perception that Apple's platform and devices are inherently safer than rivals' products.

• 3 telltale signs Apple is changing its enterprise tune

  Apple's new iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard, combined with a surprise visit from Microsoft yesterday, all suggest Apple is finally ready to get serious about enterprise.

• iPad Pro vs. Surface Pro 3: Two sides of the same coin

  The pro-grade tablets from Microsoft and Apple may have some things in common, but the strategy behind them is quite different.

• IDC: Newcomer Apple Watch challenging wearables champ Fitbit

  Fitbit retained its title as the world's top wearables vendor for the second quarter of 2015, but Apple is quickly gaining ground.

• 10 Apple Watch apps you should check out

  Ten more Apple Watch apps your wrist may thank you for

• CIOs say Apple still doesn't care about enterprise

  Apple's products and platforms have been bona fide game changers in the enterprise, but the company still doesn't give many CIOs the time of day. Unless they commit to buying 10,000 iPads or other Apple devices, enterprises are essentially on their own when it comes to support, according to a group of IT executives who spoke at this week's MacIT Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. All of the CIOs said they hope Apple will do more to embrace the needs of small-to-midsize businesses ... but none are holding their breath.

• How Apple's privacy stance could give Google an AI edge

  "We at Apple reject the idea that our customers should have to make tradeoffs between privacy and security," said Apple CEO Tim Cook earlier this month during an Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) event where he was honored for corporate leadership. "We can and we must provide both in equal measure."

• HP still dominates as NZ PC market “cools down”

  Contrary to its 2014 performance, the first quarter of 2015 was rather tepid for the New Zealand PC market.

• Does the Apple Watch Sports go the distance for runners?

  Whenever Apple puts out a new product, it's going to draw headlines. There's no better example than the Apple Watch -- its first offering into the fitness market, which has a potential to be a 22 million unit market in the U.S., according to Market Strategies International.

• Is Facebook still an innovative company?

  Facebook has been somewhat quiet in recent days, but that doesn't mean it isn't innovating.

• iOS, Android or Windows? Who dominates the enterprise BYOD landscape?

  BYOD movement continues to mature with more personal tablets joining employee-owned smartphones as the devices of choice for business productivity on the go.

• INSIGHT: Amazon, Apple, Facebook or Google - who will win?

  What is going to happen in the digital landscape and who will win?

• INSIGHT: Steve Jobs - Six lessons from his public speaking

  His ’reality distortion field’, in other words his ability to bring people round to his way of thinking, is well known and admired.