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• January 16, 2012 16 Jan'12

  NHS Trust saves £1m a year with text reminder service

  Barts Hospital and the London Hospital NHS Trust have saved nearly £1m a year with an automatic appointment reminder text service.

• December 21, 2011 21 Dec'11

  RIM rebuffs Amazon and Microsoft approaches

  Amazon considered buying troubled smartphone maker, Research in Motion, according to a report on Reuters.

• December 13, 2011 13 Dec'11

  CIOs believe cloud, SaaS, consumerisation and mobility increase risk

  Business models such as cloud computing and trends such as the consumerisation of IT, social media and mobility are exposing performance blind spots in IT management, a CIO survey has revealed.

• November 07, 2011 07 Nov'11

  Everything Everywhere to reinvest £450m windfall

  Mobile phone operator Everything Everywhere is to reinvest profits made from the upcoming sale of its 1,800MHz spectrum in the UK's mobile network, following criticism that the sale of a public asset would be diverted to German and French ...

• October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11

  US and Canadian subscribers sue RIM over Blackberry service outage

  Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is facing legal action by consumers in the US and Canada for the three-day services outage in mid-October caused by a core switch failure in RIM's infrastructure.

• May 12, 2011 12 May'11

  Analysis: Will Android dominance increase IT security threats for business?

  The Android Market is forecast to become the world's biggest mobile content platform by August 2011, according to research by mobile application research firm Distimo.

• February 14, 2011 14 Feb'11

  Dell rolls out services for enterprise mobility

  Dell has introduced a portfolio of services to help businesses manage mobile devices and an increasingly mobile workforce.

• February 10, 2011 10 Feb'11

  Mobile workers practise lax security

  More than half of Europeans practise unsafe networking when they work away from the office, according to research by German remote access experts NCP Engineering.

• February 27, 2007 27 Feb'07

  Wireless security: IT pros warily watching mobile phone threats

  Security experts have warned repeatedly that mobile phone attacks will grow as the devices become more sophisticated. IT administrators are starting to believe them.

• February 12, 2007 12 Feb'07

  Mobile carriers admit to malware attacks

  Eighty-three percent of mobile operators surveyed by McAfee Inc. say they've suffered malware infections, but two competing security vendors say the overall threat is still small.

• August 02, 2006 02 Aug'06

  Mobile security begins with policy

  Mobile security can no longer be an afterthought. Mobile experts say security starts, but doesn't end, with policy.