Apple: iPhone set to benefit mobile market

The launch of the Apple iPhone will impact the entire UK mobile phone sector. Apple's chosen partners O2 and Carphone Warehouse will obviously benefit most for the time being, but the launch will also stimulate the wider market.

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Smart metering: penetration levels set to surge in North America

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Phishing gets between a rock and an easy place

For those without strong technology skills who want to set up in the identity theft marketplace, phishing represents a great opportunity. There is even a plug-and-play kit that enables non-technical users to launch phishing attacks. At the other end of the technology skills scale, it appears that this year's most successful phishing attacks are being launched by one particular group.

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Standardizing European mobile TV at the price of competition?

The European Commission has announced its backing of Nokia's DVB-H mobile broadcast TV standard. This development should aid significantly in driving the mass adoption of mobile broadcast TV services as a whole, although that it might come at the price of reducing open market competition.

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Smart meter use set to rise dramatically in next five years

Datamonitor research predicts that the penetration of smart metering will grow to an estimated 41% in Europe and 89% in North America by 2012 as the advantages of the system are realized. For technology vendors, the mass rollout of smart metering will be an opportunity to show how their offerings can facilitate and deliver the benefits that smart metering provides.

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Enterprise IT budgets increase but in-house IT teams remain an obstacle for vendors

IT budgets globally are set to grow and the outlook for the market is positive. However, vendors hoping to cash in will be faced with competition not only from other providers but from enterprises' in-house IT teams. Indeed, while most enterprises in the US, Australia and Europe will be increasing their IT budgets from last year, they are likely to spend more with their in-house IT departments.

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Enterprise security is fraying at the edges

An increasing amount of valuable business information is being stored at the 'edge' of the corporate network on laptops, PDAs, home computers, and USB memory sticks. As this data is typically collected and generated by customer- and partner-facing employees, it tends to be high in commercial value; yet one would hardly think so judging by the way organizations often fail to protect and secure it.

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Carphone Warehouse: from retailer to communications provider

Having delivered an upbeat statement for the year ending March 2007, Carphone Warehouse has many reasons to be positive. The core retail offer has continued to excel and, with teething problems surrounding the TalkTalk free broadband offer now firmly behind it and the UK AOL business on board, Carphone Warehouse is better positioned to compete as a retailer and a serious communications provider.

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Mobile broadcast TV subscribers to exceed 150 million by 2012

Mobile broadcast television combines two of the most successful consumer products in history; television and mobile telephony. The number of mobile broadcast TV subscribers is expected to grow from a mere 4.4 million today to 155.6 million by the end of 2012. However, while mobile broadcast TV is continually being touted as the 'next big thing,' there are considerable hurdles to be overcome.

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Organizations need to take a long-term approach to retention

Regulations in some industries dictate that data must be kept for long periods - potentially over 100 years, but many organizations do not consider long-term retention when archiving. However, if they do not take action now, when information has to be retrieved it may be unreadable, as the application that created it will certainly not exist, and the file format it was created in may be obsolete.

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