More like 2013

Toshiba may be gearing up to release a no-specs 3D TV in Japan by the end of the year, but Philips' 3D TV development partner reckons we will have to wait longer. It doesn't reckon any vendor will have one out before 2013.…

Snazzy new social thing walled off

Ping, Apple's latest foray into social networking, won't play nice with Facebook - despite the connection appearing in Steve Jobs's on-stage demonstration and in the documentation.…

Robert Plant speaks to BBC Breakfast about the artists he works with on his new album, what he thinks of Led Zeppelin covers, and the possibility of the legendary band reforming again.

Qi gets branded products

The wireless power consortium, Qi, is celebrating the launch of a solution with a known brand - Energizer - attached, but the technology is still a long way from the mainstream.…

Celeb Taoist conman on the run

A celebrity Taoist monk has gone awol after it was revealed he probably couldn't in reality sit crossed-legged under water for two hours.…

Alcohol consumption has fallen faster than ever, figures from the British Beer and Pub Association suggest.

For OS fence-sitters

Here is ViewSonic's other Android-based tablet, though here the Google OS is secondary to Windows 7.…

£194m shelled out

Capgemini has bought a 55 per cent stake in Brazilian reseller CPM Braxis for £194m.…

Europe's stuck in the mud, says former Ofcom head, comms czar

Lord Stephen Carter, the founding head of Ofcom whose blockbuster report provided the basis for the Digital Economy Act, made a return to the public stage this week.…

Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

Sony has won a permanent ban in Australia of a hack for its PS3, but the code behind it has been released for free on the web.

Ian Hardy discovers how top researchers and companies are using today's devices and data to make the world a more interesting place

The proposed explanatory preamble on the ballot paper for the referendum on further powers for the Welsh assembly would be an insult to voters, its presiding officer says.

How the tech savvy help victims cope in a crisis via the web

But no Gigabit performance just yet

Netgear has announced what may well be the world's first consumer networking products based on the as-yet-unratified IEEE P1910 next-gen powerline Ethernet standard.…

Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha show off their baby daughter, Florence, for the first time on the steps of Number 10.

Vidal Sassoon revolutionised hair and created a short, sharp look that defined the 1960s.

Researchers begin a three-year study to uncover the secrets of St Kilda's super-sized field mice.

Quick off the mark

Spammers have been quick off the mark in exploiting Apple's new iTunes social network to punt survey scams.…

Meadowhall in Sheffield was one of the first giant shopping centres in the UK. What sort of effect has it had on the local area?

Apple flavoured?

More laptops have been announced at the IFA show by Samsung. This time it's the "premium" QX series - given a "airfoil design exterior" that's aluminium clad like as certain fruit-branded manufacturer's notebooks.…