Nintendo 3DS, a glasses-free 3-D handheld video game system, arrives March 27 for $249.99. Nintendo hopes it will make the strongest case yet for 3-D special effects affordability and relevance. But calling it a gaming console may be the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American public. Gaming, it turns out, might be among the least of the system's capabilities.

Adobe's Flash Player 10.2 for Google Android devices will be available March 18, offering preliminary support for Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets, such as the Motorola Xoom, Adobe said.

Google is remotely removing virus-infected Android apps from thousands of phones and tablets in its continuing cleanup of what has become known as the "Droid Dream" scare.

VMWare is showing off a mobile virtualisation platform that will let people run a personal profile and a seperate, secure profile for work applications on the same Android phone. VMWare CTO Stephen Herrod showed off the software on an LG Optimus Black. The company is now testing the software internally and with partners.

The rumored pricing of Motorola's Xoom tablet at $700 has triggered the expected reaction among tech watchers: Decide whether it's better than the iPad based on specs. Don't fall into that trap.

Network demand will explode, fueled by unexpected growth in ambient video, like puppy cams and surveillance video, according to reports from the 33rd Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) conference held last week in Hawaii.

Colombian plods got an unexpected break in their struggle to prevent drugs being smuggled into the country's prisons: crims using a specially trained pigeon to carry narcotics to their chums doing porridge overloaded the bird, causing it to come down early and wind up in the hands of the local Old Bill.

A fantastic announcement has come out of the UK today. Ofcom, the independent telecoms regulator, has announced that mobile operators can now use 2G spectrum to run 3G services.

Samsung is targeting Apple's iPod with its Galaxy Player, which runs on the Android operating system and allows users to download apps.

It's the electrical equivalent of the Raspberries: the 10 most disappointing gadgets of 2010, as rated (or in many cases, panned) by the gadget experts here at Electricpig. Read on and see what they are!