In this week's Tech News Round-up the successful bidder for Nortel's extensive patent portfolio is revealed, whilst the Android golden goose continues to lay royalty eggs for the Redmond software giant. FULL STORY >

Google's new 'what do you love' search portal gets outed before official release, promises unified Google search services. FULL STORY >

Google is set to undergo formal investigations in the US on grounds that it's unfairly driving an online monopoly. FULL STORY >

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion releases its financial first quarter results, with revenue down from the previous quarter. FULL STORY >

Internet giants Google yesterday unveiled a slew of new features which will simplify and transform online searching as we know it. FULL STORY >

Google reveals a new WebGL-based Globe Search site, enabling users to view a visual representation for search data from around the world. FULL STORY >

Research firm Gartner accounts for shifts in the mobile OS landscape and readjusts its figures to forecast the look of the market by 2015. FULL STORY >

The new Google zeitgeist list reveals the highs and lows of 2010. FULL STORY >

Canadian smartphone manufacturer Research In Motion has welcomed mobile user interface company The Astonishing Tribe to its BlackBerry team. FULL STORY >

Search giant Google plans to launch its own online bookstore in the form of Google Editions. FULL STORY >

RIM has announced that it has reached yet another milestone in terms of the available apps in BlackBerry App World. FULL STORY >

Google has announced that its Voice Search functionality available on certain smartphones, will now operate in Afrikaans and Zulu too. FULL STORY >

The Bold 9780 offers a number of upgrades on the Bold 9700, including out of the box BlackBerry 6 support FULL STORY >

More evolution than revolution, the BlackBerry Torch might not be an iPhone killer yet. FULL STORY >

BlackBerry's Pearl 3G is essentially a Curve 8900 in prettier wrapping, needless to say we were impressed. FULL STORY >