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 »

Like the manufacture of sausages or the procreation of elephants, it is not worth considering the processes by which bring-your-own (BYO) computing came to be; suffice it to say that it is a very real, very problematic trend in today's enterprises. And there is nothing at all that you can do to stop it. 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 »