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Google will soon offer users a new cloud storage service called Drive to rival Apple's iCloud, Microsoft's SkyDrive, Amazon's Cloud Drive and Dropbox, plus the other online file service specialists as it looks to ensure your files live on Google servers, within easy reach of its other services.

They say everything is a matter of perspective. Well, the leadership at Research In Motion (RIM) has definitely been heavily investing in rose tinted lenses. In his first public appearance as the new President and CEO of RIM, Thorstein Heins said the company is doing just fine.

A whole bag of Apple-related news snippets have flooded in from various places today, as the company deals with the price of market success, app store shenanigans and the risk of being road-tested by those ultimate fuddy-duddies, British Parliamentarians. Oh, and something called the iPad 3 might be happening soon. 

Only a few days after killing off ten mobile apps, Yahoo unveiled an Apps search tab.

The next OS for Windows Phone, code-named "Apollo," will integrate the Windows 8 kernel, potentially bringing all that Microsoft offers into a unified family of devices, across PC, tablet and phone. With new hardware features offering multi-core, likely HD resolutions and SD card support, expect a rash of new phones later in 2012.

Most of us probably don't have any type of security 1.0 for our collection of mobile devices. But the threat of attack is growing as hackers and scammers look to get at our data or compromise our details from our phones.

With smartphones now outselling PCs and a recent global CIO  study showing 75% of respondents targeting mobile as a top spending priority, IBM took action to secure its place in the mobile enterprise domain, announcing a "definitive agreement" to acquire mobile app and infrastructure software developer Worklight.

“Our clients are under increased pressure to meet the growing demands of a workforce and customer base that now treat mobility as mission critical to their business,” said Marie Wieck, general manager, IBM application and infrastructure middleware.

Aiming to be a bigger player in the mobile collaboration and data market, UI and UX company Infragistics has snapped up SouthLabs, the developer of SharePlus, a leading SharePoint-on-your-iOS/Android/BlackBerry smartphone client.

If you use your smartphone and tablet for work-related tasks, you're not alone. Enterprises are increasingly adopting "bring your own device" policies in the workplace. But as the mobile revolution takes over businesses, how sure are we of security and data integrity?

For the sellers of smartphones and their stockholders, the numbers in this week's financial reports were all important. For us users, however, we'd just like a phone that works and has some neat features. But those crazy numbers will have some interesting effects on what we be seeing in 2012.

The week in the run-up to LegalTech tends to be quiet, with many companies holding their fire for the main event. This week, though, Equivio offered predictive coding to e-Discovery, Lookout offers insight into Android threats, SIA buys Compliance 360, BIA offers taste of social media collection features and TechNavio’s security industry report is now available.

Deck the halls with pads and tablets! It seems the recently concluded holiday season has resulted in healthy sales figures for tablets and e-readers. This has probably lined Apple's and Amazon's pockets with enough cash to last until next Christmas. Would you believe that tablet and e-book reader ownership doubled over the past holiday season?

Huddle's new Enterprise Unlimited offering will open up business accounts to customers, partners and others to expand the concept of collaboration beyond your office's walls.

By sneaking out the news of the dumping of its leading board members between the two NFL championship games, RIM seems to be suggesting it wants to undertake its future plans in a quiet, unassuming manner. Good luck with that, as its possible savior, the "London" BB10 phone sneaks into view.

Google briefly shocked investors with poor fourth quarter results which, on top of its recent troubles, can be defined as a distinct wobble in the company's otherwise stellar evolution. But, down at the coalface, it continues to tweak its search systems, throw out new apps and improve features in its fledgling social network.