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Not only does Apple Inc. have the most succesful tablet on the market with the iPad, it’s also made significant headway in dominating the enterprise market, a sector that hasn’t been strong historically for the company. Apple is no doubt a heavyweight in the consumer space — the company relishes the success its achieved by designing products for the masses — but the iPad has effectively narrowed the increasingly invisible gap between consumer and enterprise. Read more

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Mobile has become the absolute fabric of Apple Inc. (AAPL). The business has changed so dramatically thanks to the iPhone (and increasingly the iPad) that it barely resembles itself from even four years ago.

During the just closed quarter, Apple sold 20.34 million iPhones and 9.25 million iPads. It has sold a cumulative 222 million iOS devices to date. The company now sells twice as many iPads as Macs. It’s an astonishing shift, considering the first Mac was introduced 27 years ago and the iPad’s been out for 15 months. Even the K-12 education market is buying more iPads than Macs. Read more

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SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Seven months after spinning off as a separate company, Motorola Solutions Inc. is doubling down on its services portfolio and making other moves to reach deeper into the public safety and enterprise sectors.

“Out of the gate we’re performing pretty well,” CEO Greg Brown told a group of journalists and analysts invited here for an update on the company’s road map and overall strategy. Read more

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NEW YORK CITY — To hear Kristy Sundjaja tell it, the City of New York can do a lot for the startup community. RCR Wireless News sat down with the senior director at the Center for Economic Transformation at the New York City Economic Development Corp. last month to learn more about the city’s various projects in the wireless sector and others.

As the official economic development unit for the city, NYCEDC’s mission is to “leverage the city’s resources to drive economic growth, create jobs and improve the quality of life,” Sundjaja said. Read more

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NEW YORK CITY — Mobile broadband is being delivered outside the carrier framework to this city’s brass and dozens of of city agencies. After being solely reliant on carriers for mobility before, the city began making moves in 2006 to launch a private wireless network for police, fire and dozens of government agencies with the support of Northrop Grumman Corp.

The New York City Wireless Network, or NYCWiN for short, was officially launched in May 2009 and now has more than 380 radio sites installed (mostly on rooftops) throughout all of the city’s five boroughs. The city claims 99% reliable coverage on the simulcast network and dozens of city agencies are already up and running on the system today. Read more

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Considering the rate at which so many things are being connected wirelessly to the Internet, it’s becoming easier to imagine how cellular connectivity is expect to signal traffic to and from 50 billion emerging devices within the next decade.

Ericsson’s President and CEO Hans Vestberg first mentioned that number to shareholders last year when he outlined the company’s vision and talked about where the next growth opportunities will be for more mobile connectivity.

“Today we already see laptops and advanced handsets connected, but in the future everything that will be benefit from being connected will be connected,” Vestberg said. Read more

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BARCELONA, Spain — The availability of enterprise-class features, tools and security is a pervasive concern for virtually ever IT decision maker. While the major smart phone operating systems are adding some of these to their arsenal, there are many others that are being left out of the mix.

While some device manufacturers are largely leaving this task to the OS providers, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is introducing a suite of new enterprise features to their forthcoming Galaxy S II and other Android OS devices coming down the line.

“Up to 30% of smart phone usage today already occurs in the enterprise space and that trend is growing fast,” said Eric Moon, director of Samsung’s enterprise solutions. Read more

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The cause of mobile giving is relatively new, but it doesn’t take much to grasp the power that the untethered medium of mobility can bring to philanthropy.

Carriers and new companies are coalescing around charitable giving to build a new revenue stream for nonprofits, disaster relief and a growing host of causes.

MobileCause is one of those companies that’s evangelizing for the space of mobile giving while also making the case for a different system that aims to be more transparent and less cumbersome. Read more

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Earlier this week, I took the plunge. Having grown impatient waiting for my carrier to release the official version of OS6 for my BlackBerry 9700, I decided to press my luck and install a leaked version of the new operating system.

Anyone who’s updated their OS on their BlackBerry, leaked version or not, knows that the task can be a little daunting and one that seemingly requires a background in computer science. I’ve taken this step a few times on my BlackBerry devices over the years and each time the experience is akin to reformatting a PC’s hard drive and starting completely over from scratch. Read more

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Perception can become reality in unique ways. So much of our world is predicated on how things are perceived.

On at least some level, this factor is impacting Chinese vendors Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and ZTE Corp. in their aims to break deeper into the U.S. market.

We may never know if the companies were indeed blocked from their latest attempts with Sprint Nextel Corp. or just dismissed for political or business pressures. Regardless, the perception that security might be somehow less secure on their equipment is there. Read more