Not too many years from now, business-school textbooks will offer unflinching assessments of the fall from grace that characterised the decline of Nokia, which has bet the farm on a Windows Phone 7-based smartphone strategy that is working – sort of. But if Nokia thinks the chapter of its success will have a fairytale ending driven by its new focus on new form factors, it's got another thing coming. more »

Today's operating systems are climbing over each other to be more useful and capable than the others, as when they automatically detect and download new software for your updating pleasure. There's one problem: when you're on a mobile broadband service with limited quota, massive and unintended downloads are the last thing you want. more »

It’s hard work changing the world, and Apple has normally shouldered the burden well and effectively. But as its latest iPad launch struggles on the branding front, one can’t help but wonder whether the specifications of the third-generation product represent an effort by Tim Cook working too hard to give the people what they want. more »

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 »