T-Mobile USA said today that it will begin selling its a prepaid phone and service through discount retailer Family Dollar as the carrier continues to move deeper into the prepaid business. A Family Dollar store in South Carolina. Family Dollar Family Dollar, which has 6,000 locations, is the next retail chain to announce a partnership with T-Mobile following 7-Eleven. Both …

A man has been arrested for using BlackBerry Messenger to arrange a water fight, as part of a wave of social media-related arrests. As those who took part in rioting and looting face stiff sentences, police are also throwing the book at those who incited or encouraged violence on Facebook, Twitter or other social networks. Essex police charged the 20-year-old …

Google has bought Motorola Mobility, for $12.5bn — about £7.6bn. Mobility is the part of Motorola that makes phones. Google says the acquisition will “supercharge” Android. Motorola is certainly no stranger to Google’s mobile OS. It’s the company behind devices such as the Motorola Milestone and the first Honeycomb tablet, the Motorola Xoom. So the purchase does make a degree of …