After having first disclosed that it intends making its now-defunct webOS smartphone platform an open-source project in December, Hewlett-Packard (HP) has recently announced that its webOS source code will most likely be made available under an open-source license by September 2012.

Revealing that the webOS platform and its accompanying developer tools will be released over time and not in one go, HP said that, between now and September, small portions will be made available every month.

In an apparent attempt to look for ways to better spy on the users of Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites, the Strategic Information and Operations Center (SOIC) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is soliciting proposals for a “social media application” which can help the investigating agency detect emergencies before they actually take place.

Intensified competition in the smartphone arena has resulted in Motorola Mobility’s $80 million loss in the fourth quarter, with the disappointing quarterly results further aggravated by merger costs linked to Google’s proposed $12.5 billion takeover of the company.

Motorola Mobility’s Thursday reporting of its 2011 fourth quarter and full-year results revealed that even though the yearly revenue for the company witnessed a marginal rise, the year-on-year earnings during the fourth quarter plunged because of poor device sales as well as high operating costs.

MPs have stated that a way to cut down health spending without making much difference to the vital services is being hindered by the Government's controversial NHS shake-up.,

A report was made in which it was stated that in an attempt to save £20bn by 2014, short-term measures that are like salami slicing are being taken by hospitals and this is not going to yield benefits.

A High Court bid has been made by a severely-disabled father-of-two to let doctors end his life lawfully.

The sufferer is 57-year-old Tony Nicklinson and he suffers from 'locked-in syndrome' due to which paralysis has struck him from the neck down, and due to this condition that he thinks is intolerable, has launched court action to that doctors can legally end his life.

For seeking that doctors can lawfully end his life, Nicklinson is seeking declarations and states that he is doing so with his own wish and under no pressures.

On January 14, a hospital poisoner led to deaths of people and this was known yesterday only.

Linda McDonagh who was 60 years of age and had a three year old died on January 14 and last Friday it was 73-year-old John Beeley.

The incidents took place at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport in Greater Manchester where saline drips of about 21 people were contaminated with insulin.

According to the details shared by the officials of the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, the attendance at the show this time round topped that for the last year event.

The statistics put forth by the officials reveal that while 750,000 people attended the auto show this year, making it the show with the highest attendance since 2005. The final day, Sunday, alone witnessed as many as 101,141 people in attendance at Cobo Center.

The last week introduction of the iBooks 2.0 and the free iBooks Author software by Apple marks the company’s intentional locking out of the open EPUB standard --- a standard to which the company has been reiterating unconditional support, for the last almost two years, in an attempt to lure digital book publishers and authors.

In the opinion of Apple-watchers, the company’s development of its iBooks platform on the back of an open standard can essentially be seen as a present-day version of software giant Microsoft’s 1990s policy of “embrace, extend, and extinguish.”

In continuation of its retaliatory action to protest against the shuttering of the Megaupload file-sharing site, “hacktivist” group Anonymous claimed the responsibility for the recent attack on CBS. com. Earlier, the group had, last week, targeted the public websites of the Justice Department, the FBI, and the world's biggest music company Universal Music.

After a deadly bacterium took life of three babies, the source of infection is being located by the hospital staff at the maternity unit of the hospital.

The deaths that happened at the Royal Maternity Hospital in Belfast happened due to a bacterium called pseudomonas and as a preventive measure; samples from other babies have also been taken.

Deep cleaning will be done at the area where they were being treated. Worried relatives will be assisted with a helpline that has been established.

The way a fund has been set up for tour operators, similarly a fund should be set up for all those who have got affected by the faulty breast implants, said Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, who is leading a Government review into lessons that can be learned from the episode.

He further threw light on the way the cosmetics industry was run and how safety was put after the profits.

A vast bill might be picked up by the taxpayer in an attempt to remove implants made by a PIP or Poly Implant Prosthese, which is a French company and it used industrial-grade silicone filler.

On Wednesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) debuted a managed NoSQL database service – the DynamoDB database service - which marks a widespread attempt in the direction of building a new type of database for “unstructured” information, so as to enable the users not only to launch a database but also to scale it up or down as per their requirements.

The new DynamoDB database service will be of immense significance to the web companies which are engaged in the collection, storing and processing of an increasing amount of data.

During the course of a conference call with analysts on Thursday, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said that the demand for thin laptops – called Ultrabooks – will likely be so huge in the coming times that, by the end of 2012, nearly 40 percent of the laptops in the consumer notebook arena would be Ultrabooks.

With AT&T having announced its plans to make its new data pricing effective from Sunday, January 22, there are speculations galore that the move may risk defections for the carrier.

AT&T's new data plans - which will have the new subscribers paying approximately 33 percent more for the monthly data plans - are apparently a part of the carrier's strategy to manage annual wireless data growth of around 40 percent as well as benefit from the demand for data-starving devices such as the Apple iPhone.

India is experiencing a rise in abortions despite the law becoming stringent and to top it all these abortions are unsafe.

The percentage of unsafe abortions was 66 out of the total number of abortions recorded in 2008.

The central and south Asia recorded about 10.5 million abortions and out of these about 6.5 million had taken place in India.

While doing abortions, women died and the total number of women who died in one lakh abortions was 200. The World Health Organization alongwith New York's Guttmacher Institute released these figures.