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Windows 8 support has been included in a couple of updates for the Novell ZENworks Mobile Management (BYOD) and application virtualization suites.

We are in the midst of a mobile revolution. Consumers are becoming savvier with their mobile devices and are expecting more from their digital experience. Traditional desktop activities -- such as entertainment, shopping or banking -- are now being experienced on tablets and smartphones.

Windows 8 was a bold move for Microsoft. And whether you are a regular Microsoft or iOS user, businesses looking to build a line of business mobile applications should consider Windows 8 a front runner, specifically if its touch application would augment what you want to do.

  Just a few months after launch, and as it goes on-sale in the U.S., BlackBerry has announced that its app store is into six-figures, with the promise of more big name apps to come. 

Content sharing widgets and solutions provider, ShareThis has acquired Socialize, a tool that helps make apps more social.

iOS and Android versions of the Salesforce Chatter mobile app have finally been updated to include things like editing accounts, leads and opportunities.

Twitter has joined companies who have adapted their products for the Windows 8 operating system with the launch of Twitter for Windows 8 app.

There was a time when if your enterprise had an application that offered insights into customer behaviour, the sales and marketing teams were happy. Now, workers want customer intelligence. On the back of that FirstRain has developed a new app that enables enterprises to build customer intelligence apps for any device from Salesforce’s Touch platform.

Social media engagement system, HootSuite has announced new premium Salesforce, YouTube and Statigram apps and launched a developer program to improve the overall functionality and appeal of the HootSuite App Directory.

While the road to designing and developing a mobile app is easier than it once was, it’s still not something that has become streamlined within organizations. Developing is hard enough, but when it comes to managing a mobile app’s content, there are challenges ahead.

Testers are the unsung heroes of app development. They have to keep stumbling into the potholes so that, eventually, all the faults are found and the street is paved, smooth and ready for a nice drive. To help lessen the testing pain for iOS devices, Telerik has unveiled its latest version of Test Studio for iOS, with a cloud sync web portal. 

Creating iOS and Android apps with Dropbox functionality built right in has been simplified due to the company releasing its Sync API -- allowing apps to work as if Dropbox was a local file system right on the device itself.

While we wait to see how BlackBerry Will promote the BB10, the new Star Trek movie already has an app, while Motorola, GoDaddy.com and others are putting up a heavy advertising presence among the car and beer adverts for this year's super-advertising-bowl-athon.

While Android is still the leading platform for mobile software development, and iOS is second, there is considerable interest in Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10. That’s one of the key findings in a new report on choices by mobile developers.

A stylish iPad app launches, but does the Internet care? It might if the crew behind the Futureful app have their way. Futureful is like StumbleUpon's fancier, quirkier cousin, and if the Internets like anything new, it is surely a new way to find awesome Internets.