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 If you're wondering just how big the potential for apps is, Apple has seen users download 40 billion apps since the arrival of its App Store, with nearly half of those being grabbed in 2012.

No one else comes close as the two heavyweights for tech gadgets blow the field away with their latest figures. Apple reported its fourth-quarter iPhone 5 launch profits, but Samsung is way ahead in overall sales. 

  An Apple miss is a rare phrase to hear, but having set phenomenally high standards in estimates in recent years, it was going to happen some day. Ahead of a possible dual launch of a new iPhone and iPad, Apple will be looking forward to the next quarter to bounce back. 

Apple has dedicated its entire front page to the countdown towards 25 billion app downloads, with a lucky winner about to win a mountain of apps via a US$ 10,000 store voucher.

Android and iOS are undoubtedly today's most popular smartphone and tablet platforms. Not wanting to be left behind in the game, RIM -- creators of BlackBerry devices and enterprise server systems -- is introducing Mobile Fusion, which can help IT departments manage their mobile deployments, regardless of platform.

Apple is developing a supplier relationship with Japan's Sharp for the production of OLED panels. But more than just the iPhone, iPod and iPad, Sharp may already be working on screens meant for an integrated Apple TV, which will show programs synced with iCloud.

Together, EMC Corporation and C6, a French enterprise content management software provider, are on a mission to ease CMS efforts. Today the pair released EMC Documentum D2, an application for the codeless building of content solutions that quickly match ECM application functionality to business needs. 

Adobe Systems recently launched an application for iOS devices that lets users author files in Portable Document Format straight from their mobile devices. With CreatePDF, users can author PDFs that will appear onscreen the same way on a computer, mobile device or web browser.

Skype (news, site) has grown to be the darling of social media news lately, with Microsoft's US$ 8.5 billion acquisition and the newly-implemented tight integration with Facebook. One thing has been lacking for some time now, though, and that's the much-anticipated official app for the iPad. That just changed, with Skype's official iPad application being released.

Are you considering SharePoint for your enterprise? For what purpose? And what's your definition of enterprise anyway?

The Chinese have a love affair with Apple (news, site), as evident with how their Apple Stores in the country are outselling even the most popular Apple Stores in the US. But in a country that's notorious for producing almost-perfect knockoff gadgets and devices, how has Apple managed to appeal to consumers, given its premium pricing?

Apple (news, site) has done something right with smartphones and tablets, as evident with the popularity of the iPhone and iPad. However, while the company planned to make it big in the mobile advertising industry, it seems the popularity of its iAd platform is short-lived, as Apple is apparently losing ground in the mobile advertising industry.

Engaging your audience through social media might be easy, but tracking the performance and returns from these is not necessarily a piece of cake. Clearspring's latest updates to its AddThis (news, site) platform makes it easier to track the performance of sharing. A new partnership with the BlueKai data exchange also expands users' network for better campaign monitoring and tracking.

As businesses embrace social media technologies, the ability to interact with communities has dramatically increased. Enterprise 2.0 may have started as a way of linking people to each other but has quickly expanded into a way to engage entire communities. This is both wonderful and terrible. It is wonderful because of the vast potential that communities offer in the way of collective wisdom, idea generation, purchasing power and message amplification. It is terrible because of the huge risk that comes along with attempting to engage a community and falling flat. Sometimes the community backlash can be worse than not having done anything in the first place.

Amazon (news, site) has beaten Apple, Sony and others to the punch with an all-cloud music service, so you can play your tunes on any device.