Matthew Chapman

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 tablet PC is now available for pre-order at Carphone Warehouse and will be released on 11 May costing £199 or £329 with 3G.

Hacking collective Anonymous used an hour-long DDoS attack to force Virgin Media's website offline.

Sales of heaters and tumble dryers soar as Brits battle with wintery weather.

The BlackBerry Curve 9320 smartphone will be available on a number of UK network from 14 May costing as little as £10.50-a-month,

Acer's latest Aspire One 725 netbook is less than an inch thick and features an 11.6-inch screen, with an AMD C-60 C-Series dual-core processor and AMD Radeon HD 6290 graphics technology under the hood.

Disney has designed the Touché touch control system, which monitors body parts, hand gestures and even knows when limbs are placed into water.

The fourth GT Academy Gran Turismo 5 competition began this week, featuring London and Tokyo street circuits and the Top Gear test track.

Apple iPhone 5 concept image imagines the iOS smartphone as an ultra-thin handset with a Pico projector.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, which has a UK release date of 13 November, has smashed the record for first-day pre-orders.

The London Games Festival returns in 2012 for a month-long celebration of gaming culture.

Hitman Absolution: first gameplay trailer released and new screenshots and artwork also available.

Spotify for iPad is finally here, as a free app download but with a £9.99 monthly subscription for on-demand music. Was it worth the wait?

Research in Motion has confirmed it will continue to use physical keyboards on future devices.

The Microsoft Windows Live brand will be retired before the Windows 8 launch and more integrated desktop software.

The first Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim DLC will be called Dawnguard and has a summer release date.

Sony officially reveals its Vaio T11 and T13 Ultrabook laptops, with a release date in May or early June 2012.

The Nokia 808 PureView will be released this month, with Nokia confirming that Russia and India will be among the first markets to sell the 41 megapixel camera phone.

News Corp's British Sky Broadcasting has had a complaint about a misleading television advert for Sky+HD and Sky Sports upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

Japanese mobile social gaming company Gree will buy Funzio for $210m, adding Crime City, Modern War and Kingdom Age to its range of game titles.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has launched an update for Timeline users on its social networking site that allows them to easily become organ donors.

The Sony NEX-F3 promises a tilting display, 16.1 megapixel sensor and a sensitivity of up to ISO 16,000, if leaked images are to be believed.

Google Street View Wi-Fi case could be investigated by the UK police, while Marius Milner - the self-titled "hacker" behind the data breaches - has also been identified.

The Apple iPad 3 4G could face a new Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) investigation over claims that it works with 4G mobile phone networks.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) claims that Google knew its StreetView camera project would collect sensitive Wi-Fi data.

Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have signed a partnership to create a publishing subsidiary that will specifically deal with digital publications and college material, while also creating a Nook application for Windows 8.

Yahoo has accused Facebook of buying up patents specifically to launch a counterclaim to the legal case it is bringing against the social networking site.