Analysts share more insights into the world of BlackBerry here, and in the Mobile & Broadband section:

• Analyst view: BlackBerry abandons buyout deal | Ovum - Mon, 04 Nov 2013 |Jan Dawson
• The State of the Messaging App Marketplace: What Effect has BBM's Entrance Had? | Juniper Research - Mon, 04 Nov 2013 |Sian Rowlands
• BlackBerry Has A New Chief – What's Next? | Bob Egan - Mon, 04 Nov 2013 |Bob Egan
• BlackBerry: Should You Stay, or Should You Go? | Sepharim Group - Mon, 04 Nov 2013 |Bob Egan

In the Social Media section, analysts discuss Twitter's IPO talks. Here are some of the conversations:

• Analyst View: Twitter's IPO is creating excitement | Ovum - Wed, 06 Nov 2013 |Eden Zoller
• Twitter's IPO | Beagle Reearch Group - Thu, 07 Nov 2013 |Denis Pombriant
• Twitter's IPO: What Are 140 Characters Really Worth? | Kelsey Group - Mon, 04 Nov 2013 |Jed Williams
• Twitter Marketers Are Still Looking For Answers | Forrester - Tue, 05 Nov 2013 |Nate Elliott
• Twitter's Secret Nest Egg is in Plain Sight | Gartner - Fri, 08 Nov 2013 |Doug Laney

The applications for big data continue to expand. Here are a few highlights with more in the Data, Big Data & Digital Assets section:

• Big Data Helps Reveal Consumer Behavior | eMarketer - Tue, 05 Nov 2013
• Treasure Data: Not Your Typical Take on Hadoop or Data Warehouses | TDWI - Tue, 05 Nov 2013
• The Irony of Hadoop 2 | ZapThink - Fri, 08 Nov 2013 |Jason Bloomberg
• Efficient big data capabilities help Cerner drive needed improvements into healthcare outcomes | Interarbor Solutions - Thu, 07 Nov 2013 |Dana Gardner
• Nuevora Takes Flexible Approach to Big Data Analytics | Ventana Research - Wed, 06 Nov 2013 |Jill Ventana
• Big Data Strategies Are Nonsense | ZapThink - Tue, 05 Nov 2013 |Jason Bloomberg
• It's Data's World and We Just Live In It | Gartner - Tue, 05 Nov 2013 |Martin Kihn
• Big Data for Security Realities - Case 3: Elastic Search or Similar | Gartner - Wed, 06 Nov 2013 |Anton Chuvakin
• Making Analytics Pay In The Enterprise | A Passion for Research - Sun, 03 Nov 2013 |Louis Columbus

You will find the cloud covering a variety of areas as well. Here are some, with more in the Cloud Computing section:

• Frost & Sullivan: Need to Minimize Total Cost of Ownership Encourages Uptake of Hosted Contact Centre Solutions in EMEA | Frost & Sullivan - Tue, 05 Nov 2013
• The Call Center's Social Renaissance | Beagle Reearch Group - Mon, 04 Nov 2013 |Denis Pombriant
• Some fall 2013 AWS cloud storage and compute enhancements | StorageIO - Thu, 07 Nov 2013 |Greg Schulz
• The (Cloud) Ship Has Sailed | Gartner - Wed, 06 Nov 2013 |Heidi Wachs
• Careful, the Sleeping Storage Giants are Awakening | The Enterprise Strategy Group - Fri, 08 Nov 2013

Here are other headlines we found noteworthy this week:

• Android KitKat bodes well for NFC but not for telcos' NFC ambitions | Ovum - Thu, 07 Nov 2013 |Gilles Ubaghs
• NFC Adoption Becomes Much Simpler: Google Opens Android 4.4 KitKat So That The NFC Can Be Provisioned By Anyone | Forrester - Wed, 06 Nov 2013 |Andras Cser
• Digital Disruption Requires An Organizational Fix | Forrester - Wed, 06 Nov 2013 |James McQuivey
• Welcome Back Smartphone! | NPD Group - Wed, 06 Nov 2013 |Eddie Hold
• Nokia World 2013: Impressive Product Launches But Three Key Challenges Ahead | Forrester - Thu, 07 Nov 2013 |Katyayan Gupta
• Digital Cats to Needles in the Spine: Augmented Reality's Bright Dawn | Juniper Research - Fri, 08 Nov 2013 |Michael Wiggins
• Who is leading in cloud? Data and context matter... | Gartner - Mon, 04 Nov 2013 |D Toombs
• SAP, the move into startups, and job creation | GreenMonk - Tue, 05 Nov 2013 |Tom Raftery
• Securing the Internet of Things: Is the IoT DoA? | ZapThink - Thu, 07 Nov 2013 |Jason Bloomberg
• Enterprise Mobile Development: Embrace APIs Or Dig Your Grave | Forrester - Thu, 07 Nov 2013 |Michael Facemire
• First Thoughts on Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure | The Enterprise Strategy Group - Wed, 06 Nov 2013
• At last, an API Commons | Joe McKendrick - Wed, 06 Nov 2013 |Joe McKendrick