Google Takes Over More

Google are now owners of Motorola Mobility giving giving them patents to around 17,000 mobiles and thousands more pending.

Its purchase of Motorola Mobility (for $12.5 billion) gives Google ownership of 17,000 mobile patents, with thousands more pending. Because of this shares have risen in Samsung and HTC by 4% and 2% respectively.

There are those that are not fans of Google, I can see their point, Google are posed to take over the cyber world, is this a bad thing? When Google have taken over every thing except perhaps Apple, what will the world be in for then?



Of course it all depends on how you look at things, the latest acquisition means Android software licensed phones, could now and in the future, receive patent lawsuit protection.

"Google is a massive global software company with huge profit margins, genius engineers, extraordinarily high pay scales and a near-monopoly on the most amazing advertising business the world has ever seen," Blodget wrote. "Motorola is a has-been, low-margin, global hardware-manufacturing business that operates at break-even."
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Facebook, Google and MySpace

So the big announcement from Facebook, did have something to do with Skype but maybe not in the way it was rumored. Facebook is improving it's chat feature, according to Mark Zuckerberg who is the founder of Facebook, there are new chat features, extra incentives that will tell you if a friend online to chat to.

The exciting part is that now, after installing a new app video chat will be available, if you have a web cam. That is the intergration with Skype part, do you want to be visual to your Facebook friends? I can imagine that some people would like to video chat with each other, on the other hand some with whom text chat will be the best option.

Google is trying to enter the social network arena, as it stands right now Google is so far behind it would be like, Facebook starting a search engine. Hay they may be able to do it, Google's chat feature is designed to allow up to 9 friends to chat at the same time. Businesses could benefit from that, more people working at home perhaps, saving the environment.

Justin Timberlake, finding his way back into the news, but not for singing this time, he is going to be aiding the ailing MySpace website, bring it's sexy back. He has bought himself a stake in the company, having plans to revitalize it, this is the go to social network for talented musicians and bands. Johnny Wright the long time manager of Justin's says, a talent show or, another way of showing off new developing artists will be the core of the revamp.

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