Microsoft is gearing up to take an anti-competition complaint against Google to the European Commission. Google’s monopolistic search practices, they’re claiming, prevented the growth of their Bing search engine.
Speaking of Google, how would you like a Google smartphone app that has the ability to search for personal data based on facial recognition?
Or how about cross-platform stalking app Creepy?
Google’s also throwing its weight behind near-field communications (NFC) technology, while Samsung and Visa hope to support mobile NFC payments at the 2012 Olympic games.
In even more Google news, Android apps of the future will be expected to follow their Google Market development rules more closely.
Tech writer Om Malik has something to say to all those people who keep claiming Nokia is dead. Long live Nokia, then?
