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eCommerce and financial services companies to be hit by increasingly sophisticated attacks and attackers in 2013.

Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users were 1.75 billion units in 2012, a 1.7% decline from 2011.

Fully 25% of all large enterprises will have an enterprise app store by 2017 for managing corporate-sanctioned apps on PCs and mobile devices.

Gartner makes IT predictions – lots of them and makes their living out of getting it right. Their new Predictions for mobility for 2013 go under the microscope.

Gartner attempts to track the maturation of technologies with its famous 'hype cycle', but the rise of social media might just present another means of gauging how a technology is rated.

Declining PC shipments signal a “structural  shift” in the market towards tablets, according to analysts.

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total US$3.7 trillion in 2013, a 4.2% increase from 2012 spending of $3.6 trillion.

Mobile Device Management (MDM) is one of the fastest growing areas in the IT industry. As smartphones and tablets proliferate, and as more and more people bring their personal devices into the workplace, the management of these devices is becoming a very important issue for CIOs and corporate management.

Enterprise IT spending in Australia will grow almost 5% in 2013, to a total $73 billion in 2013. Most of the growth will be in “consumer-facing industries” like communications, media and services.

Sydney based managed services provider Applaud is offering BMC's Remedy IT service management software as a cloud-based service, saying it offers considerable advantages over the traditional premises based deployment.

At its US Symposium Gartner has highlighted its top ten technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organisations in 2013.

Gartner has issued its Magic Quadrant for cloud services, putting Amazon Web Services streets ahead of its nearest rival.

Gartner says Windows 8 Is a big gamble Microsoft must make to stay relevant in a world where mobile devices are becoming the norm

Spending on public cloud services in Australia will reach $2.4 billion in 2012, up 18.8% over 2011, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. Cloud services spending in Australia is expected to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.9% from 2011 to 2016.

Consumers' increased reliance on social media ratings and reviews will see enterprise spending on paid social media ratings and reviews increase, making up 10 to 15 percent of all reviews by 2014, according to Gartner.

The latest worldwide mobile phone market share data from Gartner shows an increase in smartphone sales of 42.7 percent to account for 36.7 percent of mobile phone sales in the three months to 30 June, with Android accounting for most of the growth

There's a need for company CIOs and chief legal officers to work closely together and communicate more effectively, particularly when it comes to the identification of underlying legal/IT issues and the development of better solutions, according to a new joint report by one leading analyst firm and a legal publishing company.

IT infrastructure provider, Thomas Duryea Consulting, has entered into a new partnership with multiplatform enterprise mobility solutions company, Good Technology, to meet what it says is increasing demand from clients for comprehensive and secure mobile management solutions.

Business security solutions vendor, WatchGuard Technologies, has been recognised by Gartner in its 2012 Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management.

Worldwide media tablet sales to end users are forecast to total 118.9 million units in 2012, almost double the number of units sold in 2011, with Apple's iOS still easily the dominant tablet operating system as consumers continue to snap up the iPad.