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The “most relevant” company to developers today is ... Microsoft. Bet you didn’t see that one coming.

Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference today, Apple CEO Tim Cook stressed that PC innovation is rapidly shifting from PCs to mobile devices.

Yankee Group has some bold predictions on what will happen in enterprise mobility in 2013, including forecasts related to bring-your-own-device (BYOD), tablets and EMM vendors.

The App Quality Alliance (AQuA) has quietly being trying to improve the quality of mobile apps over the last year, and their efforts could prove to be good news for business developers in 2013.

British Airways has rolled out more than 2,000 iPads to senior cabin crew since November, but is now focusing on mobile apps, security and building its internal app store.

The 2013 International CES in Las Vegas had its share of cutting edge products, celebrity sightings and pushy - sometimes perplexing - promotions.

The first wave of $99 tablets are coming, but could well materialize as the tablet equivalent of fast food -- pretty tasty, but ultimately not that good for you.

The App Store created a new paradigm for finding and buying software and created billions of dollars in revenue to developers. But app development and the infrastructure that supports it continues to evolve.

There’s nothing like the voice of experience to put a damper on a highly-touted technology. Just ask tech blogger and developer Tristan Louis who said his firm “wasted about a year of our time, going down the HTML5 path.”

Facebook may not like it but don’t let that put you off; mobile HTML5 apps are here to stay and especially in business.

What do tablet users want? Apple famously didn’t ask (the company doesn’t believe in focus groups), but delivered what it believed users needed with the iPad and the results have been staggeringly good.

A recent seminar on the future of business apps yielded not only an interesting discussion, but also some great tips on how to develop and design internal mobile apps for your business.

Windows 8 launched with great fanfare at the end of last month, but many in the enterprise and developer communities aren’t getting excited about the new multi-platform OS just yet.

I attended the same consumer electronics event in London two years running. The difference between 2011 and 2012? Tablets were still talked about, Ultrabooks were not.

Move over Angry Birds and Words with Friends; business and productivity apps are ready to share, if not take center stage, says one app developer who reckons that 2013 could be the year when business apps become all the rage.