Last year may have been the first chance for punters to have the new wave in tablet computers under their Christmas trees, but this was the year it really got interesting – and next year will be all-out warfare. But who will still be around to throw down their gauntlets? Even as laptop computers chugged along in their boring but reliable way – what… more »

The media has made much of the decision by Melbourne-area private boys' school Brighton Grammar to adopt 600 Acer Android tablets across its entire year 9 through 12 student body. Here, Android supporters everywhere have rejoiced, is a school finally… more »

You have to feel at least a little sorry for Nokia. With Christmas coming up, it finally managed to get its Windows Phone 7-based Lumia 800 phone into the market (albeit not in Australia) and show the world that it's serious about reinventing itself. But with the smartphone and tablet audiences tempted by far shinier (and more tangible) things, Nokia is flirting with irrelevance. Can its promised Windows 8 tablet change its fortunes, or is it already too late? more »

Steve Jobs may have seemed extreme in arguing that Adobe Flash would make it onto the iPhone over his dead body, but after over a decade of rivalry the application platform he hated with a passion only outlived him by several weeks. Will you miss it? more »

The number of ultrabook contenders is rapidly growing as we near Christmas – but all they are offering is differently-branded versions of Apple's MacBook Air. As we head towards a future where brushed aluminium is ubiquitous, I can't help but ask: have we reached a laptop design singularity, or is there still room for innovation in laptops? more »