Tech Weekly

As Google launches its new social network, the team give their verdict. Plus what's happening between Facebook and Skype, interesting extradition requests by the US and Henri Crohas of Archos explains how its Android tablets are different to the rest of the market

Lord Reid explains why cyberspace requires new thinking on policy, politics, law and security

Eli Pariser, Sonia Livingstone and danah boyd speak to Aleks Krotowski about how personalised filtering is changing the way we use the internet

Nintendo, Sony, Codemasters – even the US Senate has been targeted by hackers. But why is there suddenly so much hacking, and where is it coming from?

As the games industry launches new products in Los Angeles, we take a look at Nintendo's new Wii U as well as Sony's PlayStation Vita and Microsoft's plans for Kinect

A preview of next week's games show – a new Wii and Sony's next generation portable are top of the list. Plus, we find out about 4G and how we will use LTE

The Windows Phone 7 Mango update discussed with Ashley Highfield – has it disappointed? The EC explains the new digital agenda rules on mobile contracts, cookies and net neutrality

The government reveals the Treasury receives 20,000 cyberattacks a month, intellectual property leaks, and the launch of Google's Chrome OS

Tom Loosemore joins Aleks Krotoski and Charles Arthur to explain his attempts to build a single, central government website

How has the web transformed how we look for love and how we look for art? Plus Technology Editor Charles Arthur discusses the political implications of the live feed of Bin Laden's last moments

Tech Weekly: Sony's warning to 77 million PlayStation Network users about the theft of their data, and the impact of phone tracking on privacy

As Cisco announce the closure of its video camera business, we discuss the demise of the Flip. Also, Spotify's new restrictions on music playback, TweetDeck's possible sale to Twitter and transmedia storytelling – how to tell tales in a digital age, using TV, real-life, print and the web

Facebook dominates the western world of the web, but has been unable to get into China so far. Will a link up with Baidu be a match made in cyber heaven? Also, will the crisis in Japan affect when, where and how your electronics are made? We look at the production processes and how they have been hit. And the team behind Lanyrd, the conference social networking site on their early success.

The team discusses many different aspects of Google this week: anti-trust investigations in the EU and US, how should Larry Page take the company on as CEO, the success of Android – and what lies ahead for YouTube?

We look at mobile social network RockeTalk and HP, whose labs are developing next-generation tech such as hyperlinked paper