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• Management vendors show Windows Phone some love

  IBM-owned Fiberlink and BlackBerry are adding Windows Phone to the list of platforms they can manage and protect, as enterprise interest for the smartphone OS is increasing.

• Nokia in hot water over Finland privacy flap

  Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia is under fire today over revelations that its Lumia line of Windows Phone-powered handsets sent personal data – including information from phones used by senior members of Finland's government – to Microsoft servers in the U.S., according to a report in the Helsinki Times.

• Samsung beefs up Knox mobile management software

  One day after announcing the Galaxy S5 smartphone with a security-focused fingerprint scanner, Samsung announced that second-generation Knox software for enterprise-level security and management of Samsung devices will ship sometime in the second quarter.

• Still more protection needed from patent trolls in the EU, tech vendors say

  Leading tech vendors again urged European officials to protect them from patent trolls while creating a new pan-European patent system.

• BlackBerry CEO says here to compete, regain lost ground

  BlackBerry will launch a new version of its enterprise management server software later this year that the company hopes will strengthen its business with major corporations and help turn around its fortunes.

• Sub-$200 BlackBerry phone coming in April from Foxconn

  The first BlackBerry phone produced by China's Foxconn will debut in April in Indonesia, the CEO of the phone maker said Tuesday.

• BBM coming to Windows Phone, Nokia X

  BlackBerry's mobile messaging service BBM will be available for Windows Phone and Nokia X users this summer, the company announced Monday during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

• T-Mobile accuses BlackBerry CEO of being anti-choice

  Just when it appeared to be over, a public battle of words between senior executives at BlackBerry and T-Mobile USA has reignited.

• BlackBerry chief 'outraged' by T-Mobile's iPhone promotion

  Relations between BlackBerry and T-Mobile have turned frosty after a promotion last week saw T-Mobile BlackBerry users offered a cheap iPhone.

• Samsung and Nokia in the spotlight at Mobile World Congress

  The two most talked about smartphones ahead of this year's Mobile World Congress sit at opposites sides of the spectrum; the low-end Android-based Nokia X and Samsung Electronics' new flagship model, the Galaxy S5.

• Smartphone shipments hit 1 billion in 2013, says IDC

  The world's love affair with the smartphone continued unabated in 2013 with consumers snapping up more than 1 billion handsets during the year, according to an IDC estimate.

• Typo goes on offensive against BlackBerry

  Typo Products, the start-up being sued by BlackBerry over an iPhone keyboard add-on, has come out swinging against a demand that its product be taken off sale in the U.S.

• Payments made via mobile devices surge to about 20% of all transactions, processor says

  Payments made with mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets rose 55% over last year, reaching a total of 19.5% of all transactions processed worldwide in December by Amsterdam's Adyen.

• BlackBerry moves to block sales of Typo keyboard

  BlackBerry has asked a California court to block U.S. sales of the Typo keyboard, an add-on keyboard for the iPhone that BlackBerry says is an "obvious knock-off" of the keyboards on its phones.

• iPhone, Samsung smartphone use by U.S. consumers jumps

  Apple's iPhone was used by 42% of all U.S. smartphone owners in the fourth quarter of 2013, up from 35% a year earlier, according to an NPD Group survey.