According to analysts, it appears highly unlikely that the new Research in Motion (RIM) CEO Thorsten Heins will not be able to bring about such widespread across-the-board changes to the company that its market-share losses can be stemmed effectively.

Heins, 54, recently took over the reins of the struggling BlackBerry maker after the resignation of the company’s co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis. His appointment comes at a time when sweeping changes are being expected from RIM such that the company can, once again, move in the direction of profits.

In an attempt aimed at promoting its Nintendo 3DS-specific new game in the much popular ‘Metal Gear Solid’ gaming franchise – the title is dubbed ‘Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D -, Konami has introduced a limited edition snakeskin-embossed 3DS.

According to the reports, the limited edition snakeskin 3DS will exclusively be available only through the ‘Konami Style’ e-shop in Japan; and for that, interested customers need to register themselves for the limited edition of the console before February 3.

Red Hat has claimed that its new open source virtualisation platform, RHEV3, would provide a strong alternative to VMware.

The company said that RHEV3 would offer greater flexibility, improved performance with the KVM hypervisor platform and more server headroom than VMware.

Navin Thadani, senior director of virtualisation business at Red Hat, said that the latest version of the RHEV was released the high demand for a more flexible substitute to VMware.

According to England’s departing communication tsar, there is a lot of struggle being made by parents who have kids with language and speech difficulties due to front-line cuts.

The number of kids needing help and cuts to NHS services and to council corresponded, according to Jean Gross.

She added that two years back the percentage of parents who needed help was about 18 and this time it has increased to 28.

The ministers have stated that the new bill will be ensuring that help was given better by GPs as they will be placed in such a way.

The gadgets that ruled the roost at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas – which was attended by over 140,000 people - primarily included low-cost tablets, thin laptops and a wide range of notably sleeker television sets.

Specifically speaking, six notable gadgets which more or less defined the CES event this year included cheaper tablets, Nokia Lumia 900, Lenovo K800, OLED televisions, ultrabooks, and Canon G1 X.

It has been stated that when it came to the price of PIP breast implants, they were about eight times cheaper than standard types.

The price of normal pair is about £1,000 but clinics paid about £130 a pair for these.

Women who wanted the implants were told that these implants were of a good quality and were charged £4,500 and £6,000 for one surgery, as charged for expensive implants, the implants were faulty but no one told women so.

According to Dr Vikram Vijh, the cost of these implants alone should have alarmed clinics but no one paid any heed to their quality seeing the cost.

According to the Prince's Trust, unstable households lead to young people leaving school with no good GCSEs of which the chances are two times more.

The research conducted by the trust stated that people who did not have a good education were also likely to have heard fewer bedtime stories and did not have support at home as compared to their peers who were successful.

Children who did not have a good grade also had parents who did not assist them in their homework. The charity's fourth annual Youth Happiness Index stated that stability at home was linked to success in later life.

According to a research, it is only for seven days that millions of New Year resolutions to quit smoking last.

There was a study conducted on about 6300 people and it states that about 10 per cent people out of two-thirds of Britain’s smokers, around six million people, who will make an attempt to leave smoking will be lighting up again within 24 hours.

Attempts were made about five times by 20 per cent of smokers and that too without any success.

A Microsoft partner accidentally leaked images of the yet-to-be unveiled Windows Phone-based Nokia Ace 900 smartphone, according to a report published by PocketNow.

The Microsoft partner reportedly leaked some details of the Nokia Ace 900 by publishing its images on Christmas cards.

In the images, the smartphone looks very similar to the Nokia Lumia 800 but the images also reveal subtle differences, such as a visible front-facing photo snapper and a photo snapper button situated a bit higher.

Google+, Internet search giant Google's social networking service that aims to challenge Facebook, will have 400 million users by the end of 2012, Ancestry. com's founder Paul B. Allen estimated.

According to Allen, who describes himself Google+'s informal statistician, Google+ is gaining around 625,000 new users per day and thus will be able to finish 2012 with 400 million users.

Announcing his estimates, Allen wrote in a blog post, "There is no question that the number of new users signing up for Google+ each day has accelerated markedly in the past several weeks."