This week's $1.15bn sale of GPS app Waze to Google is a major milestone on Israel's road to hi-tech success. By Alistair Dawber

These devices won't just give you the time of your jog – but calories burned, your heart rate and the route taken.

The chances are that the recent shutdown of the payment service Liberty Reserve didn't impinge much on your consciousness, unless you have a habit of making no-questions-asked transactions online.

If there's one person who's unlikely to tweet today about what a terrible week he's having, it's the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "Social media is the worst menace to society," he said a few days ago, infuriated at the way protesters were using Twitter and the walkie-talkie app Zello to co-ordinate protests against the government.

Price: £379.99
Screen: 2.6-inch touchscreen
Battery life: 17 hours
Maps: Built in mapping and Ordinance Survey compatible
Connectivity: Automatic Bluetooth syncin

The rise of social media has put "conversation without speech" at the centre of millions of lives, as Tom Chatfield explains

You might just remember the game Draw Something. Just over a year ago, everyone was playing it. Literally everyone. Well, not literally everyone, but lots of people. Companies were making a mint out of selling special styluses for our smartphones so we could doodle in greater detail. At the peak of its popularity, the company behind it, OMGPOP, were hauled out of near-bankruptcy by the games firm Zynga for $180m. People became rich. CBS bought the rights to a Draw Something game show.

David Phelan sums up the high points of the Apple World Wide Developers Conference

This is not a premium smartphone but it is certainly a good-looking, capable and highly affordable alternative, says David Phelan

As the infamous file-sharing mogul fights US extradition, Steve Anderson hears his lawyer’s claims of a murky connection between Washington and the movie industry

Technology writer David Crookes reveals how to secure your technology.

After a bit of light DIY, some seamless sounds

Apple has had five years to address "the Spotify question" – namely how to keep us paying the iTunes Store for à la carte digital downloads when we can listen to whatever we want on Spotify for free.

GeoGuessr may be the most addictive game on the web. Will Coldwell loses himself in it

Andrew Walker asks if the new Oculus Rift can give virtual reality the consumer success that eluded it in the past