After several high-profile defections from the tablet market last year, competitors to Apple’s iPad continue with dogged determination to topple the market-defining device, but the latest figures suggest their efforts are just not working – and that iPad is set to kill off a range of copycat business systems. more »

Call me sentimental, but I used to love the days when we would stay up for an Apple announcement – or, for those less-than-hardcore fans, wake up early – to find out what amazing magic the guys in Cupertino had in store for us. Maybe it's the absence of… more »

It may be healthy to take analyst predictions with a grain of salt, but if the latest prognostications from IDC are correct, after this year your mobility environment will never be the same. Anticipating a glut of Android smartphones that will knock… more »

If there were ever any question of how profoundly the tablet industry is reshaping the mobile market, a number of statistics released this week have put the question to rest. According to figures from analyst firm Telsyte, 2.6 million Australians are… more »

It's a new year – and even as the stands at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) are mothballed until next year, the market is trying to figure out what to make of the wares on offer. Yet as vendors focus on producing thinner, lighter tablets to differentiate themselves, can they beat the iPad – or are they just riding the fast train to nowhere? more »