Tech news from around the web:
- Microsoft is working on a version of its Windows Phone software that will let customers use their handsets at a checkout counter to buy merchandise, according to Bloomberg. The move to include mobile-payment technology is part of the software group’s efforts to narrow Google’s lead in handset software.
- Microsoft is also in the news in the Sydney Morning Herald, which quotes the company’s global chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie as saying that he did not know whether the tablet computer was here to stay. Speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia lunch, Mr Mundie said he did not know whether tablets like the iPad would ‘remain with us or not’.
- Google’s Gmail is in the process of rolling out a new advertising system which learn what you’re interested in based on your email habits, TechCrunch reports. Users can opt-out of the new system through Gmail’s settings panel.
- Mozilla, the organisation behind the Firefox web browser, has unveiled an Android version. According to Mozilla, the new version will allow
users to take the Firefox experience they love everywhere and minimizes typing with features like tabbed browsing, bookmarks, add-ons and Firefox Sync
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