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 »

If you're going to design your company's new hero product, would you really give it an old operating system? Yes, if you were Sony. Whether customers will care, remains to be seen. 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 »

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 »