When is a pint not a pint? When it's a social-media experience. Guinness's latest innovation is a glass whose design becomes a QR code when filled with the black stuff.

Today is a momentous one for the British national press. It is the official end of the "newspaper" industry and the beginning of a whole new economic sector: the "newsbrands" business.

Latest Galaxy to launch late May with 4.8 inch touch screen and 8 megapixel camera

A surge in Galaxy smartphone sales fuelled earnings at Samsung Electronics to a record high in the first quarter, usually a tough season for the global consumer electronics industry, outshining handset rivals such as Nokia Corp.

In the first of a new series debunking modern myths, our writer looks through the smokescreen of smartphones

Heaven knows, one tries to enter into the spirit of things at moments like these. The Queen's Jubilee. The Olympics. The great "Hurrah for Great Britain!" that will soon be echoing around the world. It is going to be tough, though. TV ads promoting the national brand have begun to appear. There are picnics, laughing, glossy people on a village green – modern, yes, but with a touch of that all-important national heritage in the background.

The perils of texting while walking are obvious: if you're concentrating on how many kisses to leave at the end of a message, you're more likely to wander into traffic, stroll into a lamp post or fall into an open manhole.

Pollyanna Woodward says technology has become fashionable

Disastrous slump in sales sees Research in Motion ditch consumer market to focus on business users

The new chief executive of Research in Motion, the maker of Blackberry smartphones, signalled that he would be open to selling the company after it posted another catastrophic set of sales figures and plunged into the red.

Who uses a pen these days? Rhodri Marsden, that's who. So can a new generation of digital pens win over this rollerball user?

I'm writing the first draft of this opening paragraph using my favourite rollerball pen on a fresh sheet of A4 lined paper. As antiquated as that may sound – especially coming from someone who mainly writes about technology – I've always done it this way; the words come more easily, the flow of ideas isn't interrupted by distractions from the internet and, most importantly, I like using pen and paper. Of course, the drag will come later today when I have to type laboriously everything out into a word-processing document. I'd love there to be a way for the arcs and squiggles taking shape now on this page to be converted into editable text later, but as yet the world of technology offers me only workarounds in the form of dedicated digital pens.

What do the Twilight novels, a pineapple and an iPad have in common? The answer, from the price-watchers at the Office for National Statistics, is that they have all found their way into the nation's average "shopping basket", joining the sponge cake and the rotisserie chicken on the index of 700 items used to calculate inflation rates.