Researchers at Gartner have predicted that global tablet sales will overtake PC sales for the first time next year, reaching more than 320 million units compared to 316 million PC units. The prediction comes despite a "relative revival of the global PC market" in 2014, according to Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner.

A new survey of hyperlocal online news sites reveals that many of them have been responsible for investigative and campaigning journalism. Of the 183 sites covered by the study, 42% said they had instigated their own campaigns over issues such as planning disputes, cuts to public services and local council accountability. Researchers regard that as "an impressive figure given the time and effort involved in starting, building, and sustaining a new campaign."

The Scottish Crown office confirmed this afternoon that an indictment was served today on jailed former News of the World editor Andy Coulson. Coulson, who on Friday began an 18-month prison sentence for conspiracy to illegally intercept voicemails, has been charged in relation to testimony he gave at the trial of Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan.

Just in case you missed it, there's a real fucking civil war raging in Eastern Ukraine. On July 2, a day after newly elected billionaire President Petro Poroshenko called off a ceasefire, residential areas in several towns and villages in the Lugansk and Donestk regions came under intense shelling and air bombardment.

A YouView study of the UK public has found that social media, including Facebook and Twitter, influence TV habits, but people avoid using them if they are not up to date, so as not to ruin their experience of favourite shows: 27% would keep away from social media to avoid spoiling favourite TV programmes they are yet to catch up on.

A total of 11 publishers and digital agencies shared the trophies across 18 categories at a spectacular ceremony at The RoundHouse in London. Immediate Media topped the list on the night, taking home three awards for Best Digital Marketing Campaign, Best 2014 Launch and Best use of Mobile. Carnyx Group, Dennis Publishing, Hearst Magazines UK, Global Radio and Vice Media all scooped two awards each with AOL, Digital Spy, IPC Media, Sigaria and Unruly Media also amongst the winners.

Danny Murphy is a legend on the football pitch, but it was his commentary during the BBC's coverage of the World Cup match between Holland and Costa Rica that sent social media into a frenzy on Saturday. The Match of the Day pundit appeared to generate more discussion than the actual game with his increasingly-expressive verbiage and bizarre attire. The match ended with the Netherlands advancing to the semi-finals with a 4-3 win on penalties.

Within the salons of the Elyse Palace, along the corridors of the European parliament and under the glass dome of the Reichstag, Old Europe is preparing for a new war. This is not a battle over religion or politics, over land or natural resources. The raw material that Paris, Brussels and Berlin are mobilising to defend is the digital environment of Europe's inhabitants; their enemies are the Silicon Valley corporations that seek to dominate it.

Google has reinstated links to stories from the Guardian, Telegraph and the BBC and admitted that it is 'learning as it goes' and may have been over-zealous following the launch of its right to be forgotten ruling.

Germany based start up Tutao has launched an end-to-end encryption based email service called Tutanota for free, after beta testing the service in the country. Using cryptography technology, the service encrypts all emails between Tutanota-users automatically. It can encrypt all data including subject, email content and all attachments automatically in the background without requiring any software installation for encryption.