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Mar 5, 2013

‘Big iron’ enterprise IT still has a role

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Traditional system infrastructure still necessary

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Connected Business podcast: Mobiles, tablets, smartphones everywhere

The latest trends in mobile handsets, how far off is 5G, and can businesses really benefit from Bring Your Own Device?

– Stephen Pritchard

A smartphone with a difference

A handout photograph released by Taiwan smartphone maker HTC shows HTC's newest smartphone HTC ONE which is tobe unveiled simultaneously in London and New York on 19 February 2013. HTC launched HTC One, to go on sale in March, to compete with its South Korean rivals Samsung and LG. HTC claims that HTC ONE has near-stereo sound, highest-resolution camera and can provide 10,000 articles from 1,400 media sources per day.

Many new handsets are of a standard hardware design but there are exceptions

– Paul Taylor

Tech comment and analysis

– FT Reporters

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Guest column: in mobile banking, emerging markets show way

Models could be adapted for the unbanked in developed markets

Mar 4, 2013

Smartphones may enable smart cities

Connected and predictive cities will transform city living, says IBM Fellow Bernie Meyerson

illustration of people riding "flying tablets"

From SPECIAL REPORTS Feb 25, 2013

Strategy: Stay ahead by becoming mobile

There is much more to being smart than simply issuing smartphones and tablets, explains Paul Taylor

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Feb 21, 2013

Carnival turns to web to sell cruising

Case study: cruise company aims to attract customers with a mix of web site video and social marketing tools

Tech hub

Icahn muscles in on Dell deal
News of stake comes as group faces shareholder opposition to planned $24.4bn buyout by founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake, the private equity firm
Facebook appoints second female director
Move to give cancer researcher Susan Desmond-Hellmann a place on the board is the latest effort by the social network to diversify its leadership
Brussels to soften data protection rules
Resolving the transatlantic dispute over data protection rules could ease the way towards a new EU-US trade agreement over the next two years
Google tip-off leads to Microsoft EU penalty
Brussels punished Microsoft for failing to give at least 15m consumers a choice of web browser – a violation of a voluntary antitrust pact
Sharp deal puts tie-up benefits in focus
Capital injection by flatscreen rival Samsung highlights growing global alliances that tie suppliers with customers and competitors with each other

Employees assemble a Toyota car

©Bloomberg Feb 22, 2013

Digital disruption

Big companies need to start disrupting now, so they can learn to do it right, says James McQuivey

Q&A; on innovation and digital disruption
Business Speak When times are tough, disrupt

Andrew Hill Mar 4, 2013

Executive heads hunted by new tribes

The obvious threats are the crowd and the cloud

Yellow Pages telephone directories seen in a London office. Tuesday July 8 2003. Yell Group Plc, the publisher of the U.K.'s Yellow Pages, and its owners raised 1.1 billion pounds ($1.79 billion) in their second attempt at an initial public offering, said people familiar with the stock sale.

©Bloomberg From COMPANIES Mar 4, 2013

Online data errors cost US groups $10bn

Research shows missing or incorrect listings hit sales

Martha Heller

Feb 19, 2013

Business successes and IT failures

Q&A with Martha Heller, author of ‘The CIO Paradox: battling the contradictions of IT leadership’

Cohesive IT department vital for success
The first 100 days of a new CIO Nine steps for wiring in success

Euro coins

©AFP Feb 19, 2013

Mobile payments on the front burner

Consumer trust is the highest priority, argue Deloitte consultants

FT Alphaville Turning mobile money into M0
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