Worse, loans are decaying remarkably quickly: the number of borrowers falling behind on payments in the first few months has leapt, to around 4% of the total.

ECONOMIST: Mortgage lending

Following the level of interest from resellers and consumers at last year's E3, Game Technologies has been working behind the scenes over the past few months to seek further investment and increase its original production number from tens of thousands to half a million units.

ENGADGET: DICE+ launches $99 developer kit, pre-orders for $40 consumer model start this summer

The prime minister has suffered a nightmare few months, with Labour slipping behind the Tories in the polls and suffering a series of political setbacks, from the cash-for-peerages row through the John Prescott affair, to the string of Home Office crises.

BBC: Analysis

The historic facade of the church will continue to be hidden behind hoardings as final touches are added in the next few months.

BBC: Service marks church restoration

Yamaha cranked out its pricey YSP-600 sound bar just a few months back, but the company's already looking to put the past behind and move forward with the YSP-3050.

ENGADGET: Yamaha intros YSP-3050 Digital Sound Projector

Nisenholtz also took a dig at another Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper, the Times of London, which has seen traffic drop precipitously since it went behind a restrictive paywall last July (although News Corp. says the move is only a few months away from paying off financially).

FORBES: NY Times Exec: You Won't Be Able to Fool Our Paywall

That's the core idea behind Microsoft's Surface tablets but, as we saw with the Surface for Windows RT a few months ago, its ARM-based nature resulted in some substantial drawbacks.

ENGADGET

With only a few months until Black Ops 2, Modern Warfare 3 is still 2.7M copies behind the original game, a gap it will likely not close as both continue to sell copies.

FORBES: Connect