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• ​How Jeff Smith built an Agile culture at IBM

  IBM’s global CIO, Jeff Smith, has been practising and succeeding with Agile methodologies for years – you could say that Telstra’s former IT chief is about as agile as one can get.

• In Pictures: 10 ways Apple really has changed the (tech) world

  Apple is both a creator of and a beacon for the technology future we now live in

• No room for buggy apps in the corporate world

  Earlier this year, Apple announced its App Store had reached 40 billion downloads, and more than $10 billion was spent on iOS apps in 2013. Three billion apps were downloaded in December alone.
  

• App security the elephant in the room

  Why the explosive growth in mobile apps heightens your risk of attack.

• 5 reasons to build an enterprise mobile app store

  IT departments can keep employees from using malware-infested mobile apps by creating an internal store of company-approved apps. The store can also collect feedback from users about their preferences.

• Apple App Store downloads hit 40 billion

  More than 40 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple App Store, with nearly half of app downloads occurring in 2012.

• iOS app revenues still four times higher than Android

  A new report from mobile app analytics firm App Annie shows that, while revenues for iOS apps are still four times higher than those of Android apps, the gap is beginning to close, thanks to spiking sales in the Google Play store.

• Apple Sues Amazon Over 'App Store' Name

  It didn't take long for Apple, which seems to be suing anything that moves lately, to drag Amazon's economy tablet, the Kindle Fire, into a lawsuit.

• Android Market trumps App Store with auto-updates

  The latest Android Market update isn't a big one, but it includes one change that should make iPhone users jealous.

• Android overtakes iOS in app downloads

  The Android operating system now leads in total app downloads, another benchmark in the race to dominate the smartphone market, according to ABI Research.

• In pictures: Steve Jobs and Apple - The successes and flops

  From the Lisa to the App Store, here are 11 products from Steve Jobs's tenure as Apple's CEO that made an impact - whether they succeeded or not

• Google clearing up more Android malware

  Google has had to remove yet more malware-infected apps offered in its Android Market. As spotted by the Lookout Security Team, 50 applications were infected by a variation of the DroidDream malware that hit in March. Lookout is referring to the new malware as DroidDreamLight and says up to 120,000 Android users might have been affected.

• Web-based Windows Phone 7 app store arriving with Mango

  Microsoft is putting together a Web-based version of its application store for Windows Phone 7 smartphones, in the fashion of leading app stores from Apple and Google. The Web-based Windows Phone 7 Marketplace will arrive this autumn, in time for the release of Mango, Microsoft's latest update of its smartphone operating system.

• Android Market poised to overtake App Store in August

  When it comes to apps, Android seems to be running faster than Apple can roll. New research predicts the total number of apps in the Android Market will overtake Apple's App Store in August 2011.

• Apple's popular apps not exclusive to iPhone: Analysis

  Apple has the largest app store by a long shot: Currently iPhone users can choose from 350,000 apps. But how many apps do people really use -- and should the size of the Apple App Store sway your next smartphone purchase? It shouldn't.