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Asian tech companies are announcing their latest figures in force this week with Samsung bagging record sales for smartphones. Meanwhile, CES will see a raft of new innovations for mobile gadgets as Apple plans to bring Thunderbolt to future iOS devices.

Las Vegas' annual Consumer Electronics Show shindig starts on January 10 and, alongside the latest batch of smartphones and tablets, it is the new class of PC ultrabooks that will take center stage.

Samsung has yet to release Google's latest Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to the public. However, the Chinese have beat them to releasing a consumer-oriented device running Ice Cream Sandwich. And at US$ 99, who can beat that price?

As mobile platform owners vie for dominance in the smartphone and tablet market, smaller players will need to find a way to beef up their capabilities. But with big names like Samsung and Intel joining forces to launch a new smartphone operating system, do they stand a chance against dominant mobile platforms from Apple and Google?

With Intel and Apple reporting healthy earnings this week, how will Nokia do today as it prepares for its Microsoft-themed mobile future?

This week Intel is chasing SMBs with new targeted, cloud services, social media use continues to rise in the SMB space with Facebook still the most popular application, Citrix bought desktop virtualization startup Kaviza and KnowledgeTree offers mobile document management.

Could it be that, for the IT industry, the recent positive outlook in respect of the end of the recession is more than just wishful thinking? If the results from Big Blue (news, site) and Intel (news, site) are anything to go by, the answer must be a resounding "Yes."

In the GRC this week, Symantec and the Ponemon Institute have put a figure on how much data breaches are costing companies and offer an online tool for calculating your risk, OpenLogic is worried about software compliance in Android and iPhone/iPad releases, Kroll opens a document review center, while McAfee opens a data storage center with added security in the UK.

This week’s news is dominated by the announcement that the Intel deal to buy McAfee has finally closed, while Google has also bought into security with the acquisition of Zynamics. We look at the governance part of GRC, while Reuters and Bluestar have announced new releases.

Mobile World Congress (news, site) opened yesterday with a blizzard of annoucements for hardware, apps and tech that will make mobile go with a bigger bang in the very near future.

Today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas., Microsoft (news, site) demonstrated that the next version of Windows will run on non-Intel mobile hardware.

It’s the last GRC Roll-up of the year and it's full of news. Agiliance has just announced the interoperability between its GRC platform and Oracle’s Database 11g, Google tracks websites that have been hacked, we look at e-Discovery predictions for 2011 and a release from BWise. Finally, Intel and McAfee get thumbs up from the US but there could be problems with the EU.

Over the past few months there has been a flurry of activity in the security space. Since the summer many of the major players in the enterprise content management arena appear to be buying all around them.
 

This week the mobile enterprise aims to make security a hardware issue, attempts to unify mobile and desktop devices and Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 7.

While the decision by Intel to buy McAfee (news, site)  may have raised some eyebrows, the agreement to pay US$ 7.68 billion for it  is causing absolute consternation, especially on Wall Street where such deals are pulled apart like fresh donuts.