With The Social Network getting a huge amount of critical acclaim Stateside, it seems that a film about the creation of Google is busy being assembled, based on the book Googled: The End of the World as We Know It. The rights of the book were bought in August by Groundswell, the production company behind the Oscar-winning Milk, Appaloosa and The Informant. Since then, The Social Network has come out in the US, making $23 million in its first week. Fox has even nabbed the TV rights to the movie and will be showing it on FX in 2013.

The firm's Mobile Exposure 2010 study (by TNS) asserts that browser use is most prominent in the UK, with seven out of ten mobile media users choosing to find information and content in this way, instead of using mobile apps. This is similar in France, where 68 per cent of users favour the browser. In less mature mobile media markets, the app fares better. In Spain apps and browser are equal at 42 per cent, while Polish users favour mobile apps (45 per cent) over the mobile internet (39 percent). Interesting observations given the recent debate about the 'death' of the browser at the hands of new access points such as apps, social networks, voip clients and so on. The research also examines cost, saying its is a less significant barrier to entry for users in the UK and France (13 and 10 per cent respectively) where the mobile internet is more mature; however, in Poland (41 per cent) and Spain (28 per cent) price is considered more of an issue.

Mobile phone maker Samsung has announced that it has flogged more than 5 million Galaxy S smartphone handsets since the June launch. If the figures are true then Samsung is starting to make inroads into a market where it has been lagging behind. Samsung is the world's number two handset maker, but has had a poor smartphone line-up that had been overshadowed by Apple's Iphone. But the Galaxy S, which runs Google's Android OS, is turning that around. Samsung has joined the ranks of smartphone makers saved by a switch to Android.

The PSP2 will be launched in the UK by the end of next year, according to online reports. Gaming site VG247 claims it has an anonymous source that confirmed that, “it’s coming in late 2011”. The news would make sense if Sony doesn’t want to give the Nintendo’s 3DS too much of a head start, with it confirmed that the console will be released in the UK in March. Of course, as well as Nintendo, it also has the non-insignificant threat of the iOS based gaming to contend with. Rumours also abound that developers are already working on games for the forthcoming console with reports of development kits being sent out to developers.

Skype has today announced the immediate availability of Skype for Android phones. The app requires version 2.1 of the OS however, which means owners of older devices than have not been updated by their manufacturer miss out.  Unlike the initial launch of Skype on the iPhone, the Android version will work over 3G, EDGE and even GPRS connection as well as Wi-Fi – at least in Europe. In the US, it is Wi-Fi only. It would seem that US carriers are fussier than their European counterparts. As ever, Skype-to-Skype calls are free, or you can call direct to landlines or mobile phones. You can also send instant chat messages. After you synchronised your contacts between Skype and Android’s native address book, you’ll be able to launch a Skype call directly from the address book app. As far as mobile platforms, Skype is already available on iOS, Symbian and on the Nokia N900, which runs Maemo 5, so the addition of a native app for Android fills in a rather glaring hole, and extends the appeal of Android even further – as long as you have Android 2.1.

Big Blue has unveiled a hosted groupware service based on a multi-tenant version of its Domino server, along with pricing that matches cuts made by Microsoft in its Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) suite a year ago. The multi-tenant version of IBM's Domino server is called LotusLive Notes, and it targets organizations with more than 1,000 users. It's priced $5 per user each month. IBM will host LotusLive notes and deliver email, shared calendar, instant messaging, and personal contact services, and they'll reach the desktop through a Notes front end. This complements the existing LotusLive iNotes service that delivers web email, calendar, and contacts via the browser and is priced $3 per user each month.

Google has responded to Oracle's lawsuit over the use of Java in Android, claiming that the mobile OS does not violate Oracle's patents – while accusing Ellison and company of a certain Java open source hypocrisy. In August, Oracle filed a complaint in federal court alleging that Google deliberately infringed various Java-related patents and copyrights that Oracle acquired in purchasing Sun Microsystems. The suit claimed infringement of seven patents by the Android OS, specifically pointing to Android's Dalvik virtual machine and the Android software development kit. On Monday, Google filed an answer to the suit, arguing that Oracle's patents should be declared invalid. "Google specifically denies that Google has infringed or is liable for infringement of any valid and enforceable patents of Oracle," the filing says. "Google further specifically denies that Oracle is entitled to any relief whatsoever of any kind against Google as a result of any act of Google or any person or entity acting on behalf of Google."

Vodafone is understood to have recruited O2 head of pre pay Michael William as its new global head of acquisitions. Williamson, is currently in to his second month of gardening leave and will join Vodafone in November to undertake the newly created role of global customer acquisitions. His new role, based in Paddington will include seeking opportunities in acquisition for Vodafone in a number of countries it operates in including the UK, Spain and Ireland. Williamson  spent seven and half years at o2, joining in March 2003 and was part of the team which saw the operator move from fourth largest to the biggest prepay network in the UK.

HTC's dramatic rise shows no signs of abating, with the Taiwanese handset manufacturer declaring a profit of more than £226 million for the third quarter of the year. HTC Corp's figures suggested an unaudited net profit of T$11.1 billion for July to September, more than double the profit in the same period last year. The figure was also well above what the analysts had predicted and testament to an astonishing couple of years by the Taiwan-based company.

Costolo, prior to joining Twitter, was the co-founder and chief executive of Feedburner, a digital content syndication platform which he sold to Google for a rumoured $100 million in 2007 and prior to that, he sold SpyOnIt, a web page monitoring service, to 724 Solutions in 2000. However, he has denied claims that his promotion from chief operating officer to chief executive, taking over the role from Evan Williams, means that the company is being prepped for a sale. At the start of the week, Twitter announced that Evan Williams was stepping down as chief executive, in order to focus on the site’s product strategy. His official job title has changed to co-founder.