Google in fresh anti-trust probe

A new complaint about Google's alleged anti-competitive behaviour has been filed by specialist French search engine 1plusV, says the BBC.

It follows similar complaints from price comparison site Foundem and legal search engine ejustice.fr last year.

These triggered a European Commission probe into Google's business practices, which is ongoing.

HP's new CEO, Leo Apotheker, delivered some disappointing news to Wall Street yesterday, after his first full quarter with the technology company, reveals the Associated Press.

Revenue growth, a persistent worry for companies of HP's size, will be slower this year than many analysts had envisioned.

It was an unusual letdown that raised questions about the momentum of the company's acquisition-fuelled transformation into a computing clearinghouse.

Mobile operators are collaborating to see the release of near-field communications (NFC) commercial services into the market by 2012, according to mobile communications body GSMA, writes Computing.co.uk.

Google, Orange and Vodafone are among the companies pledging their commitment to the technology.

NFC allows users to make payments on their smartphones, and is anticipated to be used in combination with advertising and location-based services.

Talking on a cellphone for close to an hour has an impact on brain activity, according to the latest research on the subject - but the long-term health effects remain unclear, states AOL Health.

A preliminary study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that using a cellphone for 50 minutes was associated with a spike in brain glucose metabolism, which is a marker for brain activity.

The increased glucose metabolism happened in the area of the brain closest to the phone antenna, said scientists from the National Institutes of Health. It is not yet known what the results mean from a health standpoint.