Mary Branscombe

In Depth Wireless charging is coming to tablets but USB will soon power your laptop. Here's the latest on the technology and those developing it.

Exclusive Microsoft's Frank Shaw has barbed words for Google and big plans for Windows in our interview.

Explained Covers and coatings for smartphones and tablets are big business, but there's a lot of work that goes into them.

In Depth Great new wireless internet tech including free apps, pollution monitors and night vision cameras.

Microsoft's Surface Pro Windows 8 tablet goes on sale only slightly later than expected, on February 9. But in the US and Canada only to start with.

Updated Formation helicopters, mind-controlled cat ears, forks that measure what you eat and air-conditioned shirts: the bizarre side of tech.

In Depth Surface 2, Windows Blue, Windows Phone 8.5, Office 2013 and a new Xbox? Another busy year is coming for Microsoft.

Interview We talk to the head of the Windows Phone Division Terry Myerson about keeping phone manufacturers on the straight and narrow.

In Depth The top Windows Store apps for Facebook, Twitter, Skype and more for Windows 8 and Windows RT

In Depth With the launch of Windows 8 comes Xbox Music. But how does it stack up against Spotify?

Explained With only two versions of Windows 8, plus one for ARM devices, what you get ought to be straightforward, but there's still room for confusion.

In Depth SmartGlass, Play To DLNA, web video, Charms, Devices - a work in progress with lots of options.

In Depth The alternatives to Outlook if you buy a Windows RT tablet like Microsoft Surface.

Updated Modern UI/Metro look plus plenty of new features but only business users get offline email access

In Depth BlackBerry 10 avoids Android's fundamental security problems and one day it will have all LTE bands in one phone, claims RIM.

In Depth The BlackBerry team at RIM is hard at work on BlackBerry 10 and we've had a chance to see the latest version of the software on near-final models of the first two handsets to launch.

Exclusive Lots of engineering - and deliberately making it hard to choose between phones. We speak to Nokia executive vice president, Kevin Shields.

Microsoft are working with phone manufacturers to guarantee that their de facto email standard Exchange ActiveSync, works with all devices and not just a select number of devices

Salesforce adds new updates for social networking and mobile development at Dreamforce 2012

Interview New look, new features, new name – but did Hotmail need to get away from a bad reputation for spam?

Exclusive Job ads reveal the new materials Microsoft might use in the next generation Surface it's already building.

Microsoft says the coding's finished but won't be available to the public until October 26.

IN DEPTH MirrorLink won't let you remote control your car like Bond; but it will let you play music or get a route, in any car.

More Metro apps coming plus there's also a web add-on interface for Office.

Microsoft announced today that it's the first Office app coming to the Metro interface on both Windows 8 and Windows RT.