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It’s not exactly a company name which conjures up ideas of a serious enterprise discussion. But then again, that’s part of Tomfoolery’s appeal. The startup’s mission is to make enterprise apps more inviting and fun – “to build amazing apps for work”, in the words of the company website – and it’s gotten plenty of interest.

Small businesses have been quick to embrace mobility, but lack of SME relevance has stunted uptake of the technology. Adrian Kelly, Products and Services Director, at Sage UK and Ireland explains how putting the needs of small business owners at the centre of the development process delivers business insight when and where it's needed.

The enterprise sector is catching up with the consumer sector – and it’ll be very interesting to see how companies embrace the space.

"If you build it, they will come" - No they won't. Not unless you build it with them in mind. We got some insight from Paul Heybourne, global technology innovation manager at the insurance giant Aviva ahead of his appearance at Apps World in October.

Employees are demanding more from their enterprise software, and with cloud services allowing them to bypass IT altogether, software decision-makers can no longer ignore UX considerations.

The debate has been raging for awhile: Which will win out? Mobile websites or native apps? There have been solid arguments for both and even hybrid compromises (like native app icons that take you to a mobile site). But another melding of the two forms has just appeared in the form on CNET’s new mobile site

Microsoft has announced it will release three new ‘flavours’ for its Windows 8 operating system. There will be two editions of the OS for PCs running x86 processors, named Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro. Mobile devices with ARM chips will be able to run ‘Windows RT’.

I watched this video with my mouth wide open, looking at the concepts one by one. Here’s the thing – the technology for almost everything here exists. Most of it has been implemented in one way or another. The biggest problem at the moment is expense.