Tech Check: Google-Motorola, those scary, scary flash mobs

This week on the Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, Stephanie Goldberg and Brandon Griggs discuss Google's massive, $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility. Everyone's talking about Motorola's 17,000 patents, which could provide Google some cover in legal battles with Apple and Microsoft. But what will this mean for non-Motorola companies that make phones using Google's Android operating system?
We also take a look atthe rebranding of "flash mobs" from innocent, if sometimes silly, spontaneous gatherings to, at least in some people's eyes, an opportunity for crime and other shenanigans?
Is there something to this? Or is blaming social media for crime just a cop-out?
Our Reader Comments of the Week come from a story detailing a report that 90 percent of video-game players, even the most hardcore ones, never finish the games they start.

And our Tech Fail of the Week goes to a fellow who, to paraphrase fictional movie-Mark Zuckerberg, would have invented Facebook if he had invented Facebook.

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