Toshiba plans to make a big splash at this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with its TG01 smartphone, designed to bridge the gap between netbooks and existing smartphones. The most obvious advance is the touchscreen, which at 4.1 inches is larger than rival offerings such as the Apple iPhone, with a higher resolution. In a bid to win over IT departments wary of supporting new mobile devices, the TG01 runs the familiar Windows Mobile operating system, although the user interface has been modified to work with 3D gestures. * SAP 's response to tough times is to downsize its products with a new modular offering called SAP Business Suite 7. The German giant is downplaying its previous "one size fits all" philosophy to allow customers to buy just the modules they need. The new offering covers familiar SAP product areas, such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management and supply chain management, as well as Business Objects' business intelligence software, which SAP acquired. * Google goes global, or rather its Google Docs online productivity suite does. To cater for users where broadband access is patchy - or where commuters are stuck in tunnels - Google Docs lets users in 29 languages view spreadsheets, forms and presentations offline. Text documents can also be edited offline and automatically synchronised with earlier versions when the user next goes online. Offline access was previously only offered in English. * Better late than never, enterprises are finally warming to Windows Vista . According to Forrester Research, Microsoft's unloved operating system powers fewer than 10 per cent of PCs in UK and US enterprises. But 31 per cent of those interviewed have now begun migration to Vista. Around 15 per cent plan to skip Vista entirely and move to its successor, Windows 7, after its release in 2010. * Oracle has unveiled a release of Reveleus Market Risk, a program to help investment firms evaluate Value-at-Risk and other risk measures, and so comply with the capital adequacy rules of Basel II. The new release provides enhanced instrument coverage including exotic options and credit derivatives. Reveleus was developed by India's i-flex solutions, which Oracle acquired and renamed Oracle Financial Services. * Microsoft has released Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2, its latest attempt to crack the unified communications market. OCS allows enterprises to blend instant messaging, e-mail, IP telephony and other IP-based communications with their existing "legacy" PBX systems, in theory offering the best of both worlds. A "presence" feature lets you see if a person is available. * Netezza , specialist in analytics software, has teamed up with cloud computing start-up AppNexus to offer, you've guessed it, cloud-based analytics. Netezza is best known for its data warehouse appliances which are optimised to analyse very large amounts of data. This new "Netezza in a cloud" service provides a more flexible way to access the Netezza technology via AppNexus' cloud infrastructure. It is aimed primarily at online advertising providers.
