Apple has kicked the Financial Times of London from its iTunes App Store following the newspaper's refusal to sign up for new app rules. The dispute centres around Apple's insistence that publishers do not include links to external sites offering 'buy now' options. Apple instead wants publishers to use an in-app subscription mechanism that would process purchases through Apple. Many see the new rules as overly restrictive and greedy with Apple taking a 30 per cent cut on all 'buy now' options presented to users. That rule was modified by Apple after an outcry from developers with the new rule stating that while approved content could be shown, developers had to remove buy now links to external websites from the apps.

Google is to shell out $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc - a company older than Google itself and one which has been deeply involved in the development of mobile technology. The acquisition has been heralded as brave, dumb, maverick and aggressive by commentators speculating on the motives of Google CEO, Larry Page.

The increasing ability of the state to control people was evident on Monday evening when San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) shut down its mobile service to its underground in an attempt to disrupt protesters.

The award for dumbest brain fart of the day goes to an Irish Senator, Fidelma Healy Eames, who has called for a time limit to be installed on all consoles to prevent gamers from gaming for too long. Eames, who cites the case of a 20 year old UK citizen who died from Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) as a result of excessive use of the Xbox, calls for "some class of a microchip to be installed that shuts the game down after two hours, and that it cannot be restarted for another period of time."