As the March 1 start date of Google's new security policy draws near, growing concern about how data will be gathered and used was the talk of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Speaking on Tuesday at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Google CEO Eric Schmidt answered an audience member's question by rhetorically asking, "When will smartphone cost what feature phones cost? The answer is next year. It's Moore's Law."

The EU Commission will decide whether to clear the way for a group led by Sony to buy the London-based record label's music publishing business for $2.2 billion. The group includes Blackstone Group, Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Development Co., Raine Group, and movie mogul David Geffen.

The UK's largest electrical retailer will promote the service, which launches March 1, through its 600 Currys and PC World stores nationwide. KnowHow Movies will feature content from partners Disney, Pixar, Warner Bros and Momentum Pictures, which has UK right to films.

For as little as GBP635 a month, any business can access all tweets written on Twitter going back two years as part of a partnership between Twitter and the British start-up founded by Tweetmeme creator Nick Halstead.

Following in the footsteps of U.S. shock jock Glen Beck, who set up his own online subscription site after leaving Fox News and of comedian Louis CK, who grossed more than $1m from a web special and charged fans $5, Charlie Higson wants to be at the frontier of TV's move online.

The European Commission declined to comment on reports that Microsoft and other firms have complained to antitrust regulations about Google's social networking tool, which could prompt the EU to dig deeper in its investigation into Google.

Ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, analysts were expecting Nokia to perhaps showcase the new version of Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, Windows 8, at a price that would match its Chinese competition. The Finnish phone-maker didn't help its cause by bragging that it would release some "significant industry news" at the event, this week. Instead, Nokia released new additions to its phone portfolio, which, as The Wall Street Journal reports, "failed to inspire."

Speaking to Financial Times Deutschland, Friedrich Joussen, CEO of Vodafone Germany, predicts the Android smartphone OS will disrupt the mobile industry over the next 18 months.

Frustrations around the cost, complexity, management and timescale of mobile projects are growing, too, according to the "Mobile Business Forecast 2012" released Monday by Antenna Software.