BlackBerry's latest smartphones could see it become a force in mobile phones again after several years in decline, experts have said.

The stock market added insult to the deep wounds endured by Apple after its results disappointed investors this week, driving down its share price to the point where it lost its crown as the world's most valuable company.

The glory days of massive profits at Samsung and Apple could soon be over as smaller competitors flood the market with new, cheap mobile devices this year.

Samsung today saw shares drop despite record profits of £4.2 billion as the South Korean giant warned of slowing demand and pressure on prices due to fierce competition in the smartphone and tablet market this year.

Nokia, once the world's largest phone company, has returned to profitability after an 18-month spell in the red.

Competition from rivals puts the brakes on its previous levels of growth

David Phelan reviews the Vodafone Sure Signal

David Phelan analyses the present and future of speedy mobile data

Baidu, China’s biggest internet search engine, has signed a deal with France’s Orange to appear on the homescreen of the mobile giant’s telephones across Africa.

Chevonea Kendall-Bryan "did not intend to kill herself"

Tech giant has seen share price tumble by a quarter since September when iPhone5 debuted

Few would dispute that the Government should work hard to pursue tax dodgers. And in such lean times as these, a crackdown can only be all the more welcome. After all, with nearly £7bn thought to be slipping through the net each year, there is much to be gained for the yawning public purse. But even so large a prize does not give the taxman carte blanche in his methods, and evidence of a sharp spike in snooping by the authorities is still cause for alarm, however worthy the cause.

The construction worker and his friend, Greg Torkelson, took the law into their own hands after calling the phone repeatedly to no answer

I am a phone loser. I have said it loud and not-so-proud on these pages before. Seven handsets have slipped through my fingers – I swear they're like eels – this past two years alone. Lost, smashed, stolen, left unattended on an bus... the list goes on.