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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.

Virtually everything today is manufactured in China. While it used to be that gadgets, gizmos and other products were made in the U.S., Taiwan or a brand's home country, businesses are now outsourcing mostly to manufacturing facilities in China. Amid calls for offshored jobs to return to local soil, will China retain its advantage in this industry?

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?

Apple is expected to break all records in its latest quarter with massive sales of iPhones and iPads, and the promise of more hot releases in the year ahead. The numbers are in and, with hopes of a $40 billion quarter, Apple demolished expectations with $46 billion in revenue.

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.

The numbers are in and the fall 2011 launch of Apple's 4S iPhone mid-life upgrade proved to be enough to propel the iOS platform to near parity with Android's dominant marketshare. Both Nielsen Research and NPD Group announced recently that the world's two most popular smartphone operating systems are within just a few points of each other, with RIM, Windows and all others in the proverbial dust.   

Apple's Thursday event won't be a show-stopper in the usual iDevice sense, but early chatter suggests that the company may be about to revolutionize ebook creation. It could achieve this by launching a Garageband-like app to bring content-rich, Web-enabled, digital book creation tools to everyone.

It seems odd that Microsoft has the hottest smartphone of the moment but doesn't have a Skype app for it, despite having paid billions for the company. That will change, "soon," as the Windows Phone bandwagon starts to really roll.

While everyone else milled around at CES waving new products left, right and center, Apple is quietly getting on with the business of iPad and iPhone development. It also managed to sell rather more Macs than experts predicted.

Alfresco has taken another step towards making document management truly mobile with the release of its Alfresco Mobile 1.2 app built around an integration with QuickOffice and available for iPads and iPhones through the App Store.

While it wasn't the record-breaking 61.64% share of mobile web browsing that Apple's iOS achieved in October 2011, Net Applications, the company that counts hits on its 40,000 client sites, said that Apple's popular iOS browser dominated the mobile web again in December with 52.1%, well ahead of its closest competitor, Java ME (Micro Edition), designed for embedded systems and claiming just 21.27% market share. 

Android ranked a distant third at 16.29% in December, with Symbian and BlackBerry at 5.76% and 3.51% respectively.  But Apple's share has been dipping since topping out in October, losing ground to the embedded Java ME source code licensed under the GNU General Public License and found in cell phones, and other computer products such as PDAs and set-top boxes.  

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.

As Apple celebrates its part of 1.2 billion app downloads last week, those centuries-past, paper-based tomes are the focus of the company's first big news in 2012. While we're sure it is hard at work on a budget iPad and a new iOS, Apple is trying to boost its share of the ebook market that Amazon rules.