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To combat Microsoft and Apple's "anti-Android" patent accumulation tactics, Google is set to pay an inflated $12.5 billion for smartphone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility.

Following reports showing Microsoft's Xbox 360 console going from strength-to-strength, news has broken that the company is being sued for charging customers without consent.

For the seventh consecutive month in a row Microsoft's Xbox 360 has beaten the competition, outselling both Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii.

Scientists at the Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute use 42 giant radio dishes in northern California to look for distant transmissions, but their quest for extra-terrestrial life was threatened after a lack of funding jeopardised the programme.

Google high-ups David Drummond and Kent Walker have both released predictions claiming that the current patent war raging through the smartphone market will kill company innovation thus hurting the end consumer.

Following McAfee's discovery of the high-profile Operation Shady RAT, tech-Goliath Microsoft has announced a new initiative offering cash prizes for companies or individuals that develop new technology to help counter the growing hacker threat.

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New reports suggest that the BBC is keen to produce games based on its popular television series.

Of the big-three games companies only Microsoft's Xbox 360 has seen increased sales, with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii both seeing a downturn.

Microsoft has apologised for a tweet sent from its Xbox 360 PR account encouraging grieving Amy Winehouse fans to remember the singer by buying her album, Back to Back, from Microsoft’s Zune store.

Despite both companies posting record quarterly growths in both profits and revenue, for the second quarter in a row Apple has outperformed Microsoft.

Tech giant Microsoft has exceeded analysts quarterly financial estimates, with strong sales of its Office software and Xbox 360 games console leading the charge.

A post on Microsoft's blog from Senior Attorney, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit Richard Boscovich has offered a $250,000 reward for information regarding the creators and operators of the Rustock botnet.

In a recent interview Ubisoft chairman and CEO Yves Guillemot declared his belief that Nintendo Wii U "will change the video game industry."

A new job posting by Microsoft's Windows Phone division indicates that the company is beginning development of a new secret project designed to break Apple and Google's hold on the smartphone market.

According to AMD's director of ISV relationships Neal Robison, Microsoft's next generation Xbox 720 games console will feature vast improvements to its AI and graphics.

Speaking at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last week, Windows Phone chief Andy Lee hinted at future plans to merge all its current operating systems into one.

Apple is set to get a taste of its own medicine as Indian-based company Kootol Software threatens legal action against it and 29 other companies, including Microsoft, IBM and Google.

Windows Phone 7's forthcoming Mango version is set to appear on a slew of new smartphones, including one made by Galaxy S2 creator Samsung.

Sony has unveiled a new three-year $20 million investment plan to help increase the number of exclusive titles on its PlayStation Network.

Speaking at the Worldwide Partners Conference, Microsoft's Windows Phone president Andy Lees denied all claims suggesting future Windows tablets would run using the company's Windows Phone operating system.

Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC has gotten serious about games, buying S3 Graphics.

With Nintendo's new Wii U confirmed and rumours flying about Sony's PlayStation 4, analysts are questioning just when Microsoft's adoring fans will get word of its next generation Xbox 720.

Just as Sony finally managed to reactivate the PSN in its native Japan, two fresh sets of rumors have arisen alleging not only that it is in the process of completely redesigning the network, but also that its next generation PlayStation 4 console is set be in stores as early as 2012.

Finnish Phone guru Nokia released its latest entertainment focused smartphone the X7 loaded with its latest Anna version of the Symbian operating system, can the phone succeed despite the OS's ailing fortunes?

With the a rumoured deal with Skype and an unofficial plug-in designed to replicate Google+'s circles feature both being revealed in the same day, many analysts have speculated that Facebook is playing catch up with Google's new half-launched social networking service.

In response to the overwhelming hoards of internet users clamoring to try out Google's new Google+ social networking service, Facebook has been in talks with Microsoft owned Skype about a rumoured new video chat service.

The letter highlighted several of the criticisms made against the PlayBook tablet

Search giant Google's new Google+ service is set to contain third-party developed games and apps similar to those currently found on Facebook.

In an interview with IndustryGamers Microsoft's interactive entertainment business COO and CFO Dennis Durkin reiterated his belief that Sony's PSN hacking plight has led to a united games industry ready to work together in its efforts to combat the world's growing cyber threat.