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It seems that every week, one analyst or another reports on smartphone growth… the number of users in a given country by year, many times grouped by OS. I find that this analysis lends itself to confusion when terms such as ‘superphones’ and ‘3G texting phones’ are thrown around. So, in light of recent bullish predictions on phone growth in general during 2010, I’m going to go out on a limb and make my own predictions.

Also according to the research, message archiving buyers have reported low satisfaction with their current deployments and, as a result, many plan to ramp up adoption to help meet regulatory and legal risk mitigation objectives.

AppRiver, LLC, a provider of e-mail messaging and Web security solutions, announced its Secure Hosted Exchange service has been selected as a Best of Interop 2010 finalist in the Wireless & Mobility award category, for its ability to increase the speed and reliability for mobile broadband users.

While the jury is still out on the success of Windows 7, there are a few small and midsized businesses that are testing the water with the new operating system from Microsoft. One of the major problems for these companies is to check whether their existing software and applications will be compatible with the Windows 7.

The Nokia N8 will be available in select markets during the third quarter of 2010 at the estimated retail price of $490.

Tungle, the company that makes scheduling meetings easy, has stated that its Tungle.me software is now available for IBM's Lotus Notes collaboration software.

Small-midsized businesses (SMBs) depend on doing more with less. Unified communications, UC, is an excellent tool to enable this as it streams all contacts regardless of channel or device through a single interface.

Avaya, a provider of enterprise communications systems, software and services, has introduced new data products that are specifically designed to support the growing needs of today's bandwidth-hungry video and unified communications applications.