The global smartphone market is still RIM's to lose, with Apple in the pole position to profit from its mistakes. But new ComScore data on the U.S. smartphone market suggest that both should be worried by what they see in their rear-view mirrors:

“SharePoint 2010” was presented to the general public by Steve Ballmer at the SharePoint Conference last year, and its market launch announced for the first six months of 2010. SharePoint 2010 represents more an evolution than a revolution.
Whilst the release upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (in brief, to avoid tongue-twisters: MOSS) still involved numerous fundamentally new functional areas and areas of application, such as Business Intelligence and Workflows, this does not apply to the latest release upgrade.

What to expect from the biggest change to Internet standards in years

Among web developers, anticipation is mounting for HTML 5, the overhaul of the web markup language currently under way at the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C). For many, the revamping is long overdue. HTML hasn't had a proper upgrade in more than a decade. In fact, the last markup language to win W3C Recommendation status, the final stage of the web standards process, was XHTML 1.1 in 2001.

The company is transforming from a system integrator to a service assembler
The technical services group of Capgemini has traditionally helped companies with system integration, but cloud computing is changing that. The company is increasingly assembling lots of different software-as-a-service applications, a phenomenon that has led Capgemini to create a new business unit.

Avaya IP Office 6.0 is released bringing additional new features to this tried and true SMB phone system. Avaya claims that this new version of Avaya IP Office enhances user experiences for greater productivity and that it makes UC up to 40% more affordable for companies with less than 20 employees. One of the biggest reasons how they cut costs down is via Avaya IP Office 6.0's new 'combination card' . This single card does what used to require several cards to support digital, analog and IP devices.

More and more businesses are looking to hosted e-mail services to reduce costs and ease management, and the choice often comes down to Google's Gmail (the key component of Google Apps) or a hosted version of Microsoft Exchange.

In this debate we line up two experts to argue opposing views: Jonathan McCormick, chief operating officer, Intermedia, who says hosted Exchange wins, and Daniel Riley, vice president of services, Isos Technology, who says enterprises will make the exchange for Google Apps.

Skype is also working hard on a client for Android-based smartphones

Skype and Nokia have released a new Skype client for the Symbian mobile OS.

According to the latest research report from Synergy Research Group, “Q4 2009 and YE 2009 EMEA and Western Europe market shares,”  though Enterprise Voice market, year over year, fell over 23 percent in Western Europe, however, the second half of 2009 showed solid improvement.

“The growth in Q4 2009 was more robust than any quarter since Q4 2007,” the research firm said.