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• What's next for Apple?

  Apple for years rallied around its charismatic co-founder, Steve Jobs, so it's only natural now to question whether the company can retain its market dominance and magic with a new leader.

• Apple's Business Breakthroughs

  My personal observations suggest why Apple is making inroads at companies, and why that's likely to continue.

• What 'consumerisation of IT' really means to CIOs

  The latest trend (or over-hyped term, if you like) is "consumerisation of IT". As with cloud computing, the term is somewhat ambiguous and is applied to a number of things that are recognizably related, but which differ in details.

• Leadership lessons from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

  Great leaders like Apple CEO Steve Jobs are supreme visionaries and marketing geniuses, says executive leadership expert Paul David Walker, author of Unleashing Genius (Morgan James Publishing, 2008). In order to be better leaders, CIOs need to become more like them.

• iPads in the enterprise: 5 price negotiation tactics

  The iPad enterprise adoption craze is underway, are you armed with the knowledge and resources you need to negotiate a deal for iPads in bulk?

• Forrester's iPad Security Tips

  Market researcher Forrester has some unpleasant news for those of you running iPad apps in your enterprise. Forrester's iPad take: Chances are good that commercial apps don't protect sensitive data on an iPad or iPhone.

• Oracle adds iPhone support to BI, analytics software

  Oracle has introduced support for Apple's iPad and iPhone as part of a slew of enhancements to its BI (business intelligence) software, the company announced Tuesday.

• BlackBerry Bold 9900: First impressions

  This morning, Research In Motion (RIM) officially announced its latest smartphone, the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930, at its annual BlackBerry World Conference in Orlando.

• Is IT tracking your location via smartphone?

  Let's say you scored a boondoggle to Los Angeles for a business conference, and instead sneaked off to nearby Disneyland with the family for a vacation on the corporate dime. Or maybe you simply told your boss you were meeting a client, but hit the golf links with your buddies.

• APAC smartphone market to double by 2016

  The APAC smartphone market will double in size by 2016, according to a new forecast by telecommunications analyst Ovum.
  Ovum predicts the APAC market will hit shipments of 200 million by 2016, accounting for 30 percent of the global number of 653 million shipments.
  Android will be the main responsible for this growth and will outperform Apple, with a 20 percent lead on market share, Ovum adds.
  “The smartphone market will see significant growth over the next five years, once again outperforming the wider mobile phone market. We will see dramatic shifts in dominance for smartphone software platforms, with Android storming into the lead with 38 per cent market share, compared to Apple iOS’ 19 per cent, by 2016 in AP alone,” says Ovum principal analyst Adam Leach.
  “The success of the Android platform is being driven by the sheer number of hardware vendors supporting it at both the high and low ends of the market."
  The Windows Phone platform will be just behind Apple iOS, with 22 percent market share by 2016, followed by the BlackBerry OS, with 9 percent market share.
  “We expect at least one other platform to achieve mainstream success within the forecast period. This could be an existing player in the market such as Bada, WebOS, or MeeGo, or it could be a new entrant to the market place,” adds Leach.
  According to the analyst, the partnership between Nokia and Microsoft has redrawn the smartphone market and will result in a significant reduction in shipments of Symbian-based handsets as Nokia transitions to Windows Phone as its primary smartphone platform.
  “For Microsoft the deal provides a committed handset partner that has the potential to make Windows Phone a mainstream smartphone platform. The risk to Microsoft is that other handset makers may choose not to compete with Nokia and may turn their backs on Windows Phone,” adds the analyst.

• iPad 2 in the enterprise: One company's upgrade strategy

  When the iPad 2 hit Apple stores, people couldn't wait to buy. Lines stretched around entire city blocks. At the Apple Store in Walnut Creek, Calif., a shopping mecca 30 miles east of San Francisco, people at the front of the line said they'd been waiting since 6 a.m. for the iPad 2 to go on sale at 5 p.m.

• Perks? What perks? Some tech CEOs go without

  Many public companies are slowly doing away with <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/030911-ceo-perks.html">CEO perks</a> such as country club memberships, cars and drivers, and free financial planning services. But some tech CEOs are already accustomed to living without personal perks.

• Apple iPad platform to dominate to 2015: Ovum

  With Apple's launch of the second version of its iPad, research house Ovum predicts that it will take until 2015 for devices running Google's Android platform to catch up.

• Are the iPad 2 HD rumours for real?

  The much anticipated iPad 2 hasn't even hit Apple Stores, while a new rumor about an iPad 3 arriving in time for the holidays began swirling around the blogosphere recently. Two iPads in the same year? What's going on? Does this rumor carry much weight?

• Tech company CFOs anticipate revenue increase in 2011

  Increased revenue will foster mergers and acquisitions in the technology space, according to a survey by accounting and consulting firm BDO USA that polled chief financial officers at technology firms.