Apple have for a long time now been boasted as the pioneers of the superphone. Since 2007 we've watched as company after company have tried to recreate the big A's success with ever-so-slightly different variants of what's essentially just an iPhone. Along the way, Apple have taken various legal shots at the intellectual freeloaders, the most recent of which being Samsung for their "infringing [Galaxy] product line".

Well in an unexpected and quite frankly hilarious twist of events, it appears the two companies may have more plagiaristic history between them than we first expected. And no, Apple aren't going after Samsung's Series 9 for taking on the MacBook air, rather the following image surfaces online of a handset Samsung produced back in 2006 which challenges the iPhone's own originality all together.

Who reads the small print? We all kinda know we should, but we all kinda... don't. But who can blame us? It's hard enough just keeping up with all these hot new websites, services and social networks, without spending half our online time reading through their hundreds of pages of legal terms and technical jargon, right? Lets face it, these big brands could sneak just about anything in there without us knowing *cough Facebook*, and it's down to individuals such as the folks at PhotoFocus to take one for the team, read through the filler, and find out if anything juicy lays beneath.

According to PhotoFocus.com, Twitter's terms of service are home to a couple of profoundly startling obligations. The first of which pretty much states that Twitter owns every peice of content you send through their service, be it written, audio, photo, video or anything else:

"By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed)."

Surprisingly, this specific detail isn't the worst of their findings, as the terms then go on to read the following...

Google are leaving the digital world rather confused today with the viral-isation of their latest ad for 'Search with my location', fittingly entitled 'Pizza'.

The excruciatingly irritating 10-minute long video sees the (presently unknown) character cycle through a series of random backdrops, whilst attempting to search for pizza with his voice using the Google iOS app. The baffling absurdity of already finding local results 18 seconds in, before wasting a further 10 minutes of our lives is only exacerbated by the fact he's using an iPhone 4 as opposed to one of Google's heavily pushed Android handsets.

So as soon as the rumours began, they have ended. Earlier today we reported that TechCrunch had got wind of a mystical Facebook phone being developed secretly by senior members of the company. Spokesperson Jaime Schoflin has just now debunked these claims, stating that:

"The story, which originated at TechCrunch, is not accurate. Facebook is not building a phone... it's just not what we do" 

Just over a week after The Last Exorcism's Chatroulette campaign received mainstream media coverage, YouTube is showing what it can do to turn heads with it's latest interactive takeover ad.

In a report published earlier today, Google are said to be on the brink of ending the epic censorship battle between themselves and chinese government in one brash maneuver, to just get out of the country's cyberspace all together.

Okay so us brits aren't famed for our technolust, but just because we're not born and bred in silicon valley doesn't mean we don't know a thing or two about about Tech & 2.0, right?

In a recent survey conducted by global public relations company Lewis PR, a ready and raring rep took to the streets of Britain to find out how many of us really know our Blackberrys from our Apples with a variety of modern technology orientated questions aimed to unravel the UK's general knowledge of internet, computing and consumer electronics. Read on for a cheap laugh at our expense...

That's right folks, the world's richest man aka. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has indeed joined Twitter! The PC pioneer posted his first ever tweet about four hours ago:

@BillGates "Hello World." Hard at work on my foundation letter - publishing on 1/25.

His profile sports Twitter's 'Verified Account' badge, indeed confirming he's the real deal. This has also been backed up by Twitter's own @caroline in recent tweets. So what you waiting for? (Except some serious traffic!) Give some entrepreneurial lovin' to Mr. Billy G himself, and don't forget to follow up G-star CEO Mr. Eric S Word up!

As social networking starts to evolve into a real-time, location aware environment, Twitter has kept it's finger firmly on the pulse in more ways than one. Back in November they released their Geotagging API to developers and today Twitter has acquired Mixer Labs, creator of GeoAPI.

GeoAPI allows developers to build great Geolocation based applications, which as of now will be functioning inside of Twitter. So what does this mean for the Twittersphere?

Back in May the news broke that Microsoft had lost a patent infringement suit regarding Word's handling of .xml, .docx and .docm files, meaning the only thing keeping their flagship office suite in sale was the chance that the appeal might go in their favour.

As Microsoft have lost the suit against 'XML specialists' i4i again, as it stands they are not authorized to sell Word and thus the entire Office suite is barred from sale starting January 11.

Following up to the 'iPhone Suicide' scenario, The Business Insider had put together a report based on several sources, showing the inside workings of a Foxconn factory in China and after reading some of this, you can see why you would be borderline suicidal just working there let alone after you've lost an Apple prototype.

"I was placed in a dormitory that has ten three-level bunk beds, thus accomodating 30 people. While many people refused to stay there at that time, the management said that it is much better than the other dormitories on site that are shared by hundreds of workers. Although I still had some negative feelings towards the dorm room, at the same time, I felt lucky for not having to live in a dorm room shared by hundreds. Just the second day living in the dorm, however, I found my safe box open, and my walkman gone. There was nothing I could do but to try to tell myself that I was lucky because it was not that expensive...