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BlackBerry has announced that its popular social messaging service, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), will be offered on the Android and iOS platforms as well as on BlackBerry devices. BBM was previously restricted to BlackBerry devices, and number of BBM users was negatively impacted as the handset manufacturer lost smartphone market share. BBM's cross-platform ambitions will allow it to reach a wider audience, and also raise important issues around monetising the service.

I can safely say it’s been quite a long time since I mentioned the company HP but yesterday, as news from their shareholders meeting started to trickle out, I have to say I realised that something groundbreaking may be coming our way from HP and sooner rather than later.

How many devices are being activated per day? How many apps does the average user have? Do all the apps in the app stores really get downloaded? How long do people spend on their mobile devices? What are they doing? Who’s using smartphones the most? All those questions are answered in this handy infographic from New Relic.

At its New York roadshow at the end of February 2013, Salesforce.com announced new mobile capabilities for its Service Cloud customer service platform. The announcement was part of discussions that focused on the vendor’s new messaging about the customer-centric enterprise.

The 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was the usual media frenzy, with as many new technology announcements as ever. Although CES focuses on mass-market, consumer products, entertainment, and services, it does provide a preview of technologies and products that will most likely enter the enterprise market eventually. It also gives IT departments some idea of what the corporate end user is going to expect in terms of corporate IT services, user interfaces, and service flexibility.

Every day millions of people surf onto company websites throughout the world. And every day millions of opportunities to convert the website traffic into app downloads are lost. This is because getting a user from a website into the app store to download your specific app, remains one of the biggest challenges for marketers out there.

It is time once again to announce the winners of Ovum’s annual Wireless Turkey Awards. During the year, Ovum tracked, reported on, and analyzed thousands of innovations within the mobile telecoms industry.

Consumerisation has shown us that what impacts us as consumers will eventually need to educate us in the enterprise.