As many words have already been written about Google snapping up Motorola as dollars changing hands in the deal. Here’s a Twitter-length analysis: "$12.5-b from GOOG for fading maker of mobiles and set top boxes to stymie Apple lawyers with 17,000+ patents; other Android OEMs poker-faced". Now, Gearburn predicts what it will do for you – and to you – over the next few years.1. Stop squabbling over patents, start building better phones The last year has been an ugly mess ...

Facebook has produced what it claims is "smoking gun" evidence that a New York man's contentious claim to majority ownership of the hugely successful social network is fraudulent.In the midst of Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zukerberg shaking off the Winklevoss twins' legal hounding, Paul Ceglia filed a suit claiming 84 percent ownership of Facebook.His case rested on what was always regarded as a highly suspicious contract which he claimed showed that in April of 2003, he had contracted ...

Telecommunication in emerging markets is massive and remains a key growth area the in light of recent shrinking values in other industries. Matthew Guest of accounting firm Deloitte says there is "plenty of opportunity," while warning that are "too many competitors" in some African markets.So how does one stand out in such an environment? Startup ARC Telecoms is an IP telecommunications service provider company specifically dedicated to the small and medium sized business sector in South Africa. The company ...

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Own an iPhone? Then these are (in no particular order) the twelve best games of 2011 that you simply must download and install on your iDevice. iRight now. And the best news is there are still three months left in this year -- some may even surpass the genius already out.1. Cut The Rope: ExperimentsIt takes a goliath of a game to knock any mention of Angry Birds from the top list of iPhone games. Cut the Rope: Experiments is ...

Review: Do you remember that scene in Hackers where Dade and Kate play a Wipeout-esque game at Cyberdelia? I'm willing to bet that if game studio Santa Ragione existed before 1995, Dade would be kicking Kate's ass playing Fotonica instead.Fotonica has been available from Kongregate (via plug-in) for a while, but recently became available as a pay-what-you-want download for Mac and PC. The game is like a one button, wire-frame version of Mirror's Edge that sees you running, jumping and ...

Two British men in their early twenties have each been sentenced to four years imprisonment for inciting violence on Facebook. The sentences are among the first following a series of arrests in the wake of riots which recently spread across the UK.Jordan Blackshaw, 20, from Cheshire and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, from Warrington, both in northwest England, were imprisoned after setting up Facebook pages calling for unrest in their home towns.Blackshaw's page, "Smash Down Northwich Town", encouraged people to gather "behind ...

More than 20 000 South Korean iPhone users have filed a class action lawsuit against US technology giant Apple for "illegal location tracking".The tech giant was busted earlier this year for tracking user locations. Apple later claimed the tracking was a "bug" and issued software updates to remedy the situation.This suit follows a similar one by lawyer Kim Hyung-Suk in which he won won one million won (US$933) in June. This was the first such pay-out by Apple's Korean ...

Sony is slashing the price of its PlayStation 3 game console across North America, Europe and in Japan, the company said, as it looks to spur demand ahead of the year-end shopping season.Sony Computer Entertainment cut the price for the 160-gigabyte PS3 from US$299 to US$249 in North America and from 299 euros to 249 euros in Europe.The company will also lower the price of the console in Japan, from 29 980 yen to 24 980, while slashing some 14 ...

Software giant Microsoft has launched a blog chronicling the build of its next OS, Windows 8. The blog, called "Building Windows 8" is designed as a means of crowdsourcing aspects of the OS' design and development.Windows president Steven Sinofsky, in a post detailing blog's aims, says that, "Windows 8 reimagines Windows for a new generation of computing devices, and will be the very best operating system for hundreds of millions of PCs, new and old, used by well over ...