Are you tired of having to remember what your friends look like? Well, The Astonishing Tribe’s Recognizr app will enable Android phones to recognize your friends’ faces and associate them with online services like Skype, YouTube, Facebook, and more. In addition to the aforementioned online services, the app will also associate the face with profile pictures in your contact lists.

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The European Commission has launched a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google’s search engine and its search-advertising service. The European Commission on Wednesday said it had contacted the US internet company about two weeks ago about three complaints it had received and that the commission itself was examining them. According to Google, one of the three complaints was from rival Microsoft.

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From PC World...

Microsoft today announced the new version of its phone operating system, Windows Phone 7. It’s a sweeping redesign, coupled with an aggressive new partnership with handset makers and mobile carriers. Initial reviews are not only positive but actually excited. With the unveiling today of Microsoft’s next mobile phone platform, Windows Phone 7, it’s now official: the phone is not a PC and “much more advanced."

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The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information. Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.

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Scientists and politicians on both sides of the climate change debate have been pointing to the snowstorms in the Mid-Atlantic states to promote their theories on the earth's changing temperatures -- and the debate is getting downright nasty. "It's absurd for the 'anti-science side' to say we're in a cooling trend when we're in an overall warming trend," says Joseph Romm of the Center for American Progress.

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Skeptics of global warming are using the record-setting snows to mock those who warn of dangerous human-driven climate change — this looks more like global cooling, they taunt. But some independent climate experts say the blizzards in the Northeast no more prove that the planet is cooling than the lack of snow in Vancouver or the downpours in Southern California prove that it is warming.

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Google plans to build experimental, ultra-fast Internet networks in a handful of communities across the U.S. to ensure that tomorrow's systems can keep up with online video and other advanced applications that the search company will want to deliver. The company said its fiber-optic broadband networks will deliver speeds of one gigabit per second to as many as 500,000 Americans.

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Google Inc. opened a new social hub in its e-mail service on Tuesday, leaving little doubt that the Internet search leader is girding for a face-off with Facebook. The new Gmail channel, called Google Buzz, includes many of the features that have turned Facebook into the Web's top spot for fraternizing with friends and family.

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Facebook reports that it has 400 million active users worldwide. Make that 399,999,999. Laura LeNoir is done. "I feel better, I feel lighter, I got my privacy back," says LeNoir, 42, an office manager at an educational software company in Birmingham, Ala., who logged off a few weeks ago. "People say, 'You'll be back.' But I read more, walk the dogs more. I'll be fine."

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United Nations officials insist climate change science remains solid, despite serious errors being exposed recently. Scientists, politicians and business leaders are meeting in the Indian capital, Delhi, for the first big conference on climate change since the Copenhagen summit last year.

Watch video on this subject at the BBC website.