Council chiefs have stated that despite changes planned, England has an uncertain future in regard to social care as services have been forced into budget cuts.

According to research by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, this year alone, from the £16bn budget, £800m was likely to be taken.

It was warned by the group that this definitely meant that things were going from bad to worse.

This follows after things becoming evident that the government is all set to state in the Queen's Speech that it is determined to reform the system.

On Tuesday, Bethesda Softworks announced the return of the classic first-person shooter, the Wolfenstein series, with a new title called `Wolfenstein: The New Order.' The new game is a re-imagined and action-adventures edition of Wolfenstein; and it puts the gamers in control of an American war hero - B. J. Blazkowicz - during the period when the Nazis won World War II.

Set in the 1960s Europe, the task which `Wolfenstein: The New Order' sets before the players acting as the protagonist is to launch a counter-offensive which has been described as `impossible.'

Siding with Apple in its patent scuffle with Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility, the European Union (EU) anti-trust officials said on Monday that Motorola's filing of a patent injunction against Apple in Germany amounted to an abuse of the position which Motorola holds in the German mobile market.

With regard to the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend which is on the cards for employees in the coming years, the findings of a new study conducted by research firm Gartner have revealed that, by the year 2017, nearly 50 percent of all employers will require employees to make use of their own smartphones and tablets for work needs.

The recently-revealed schedule for Google's forthcoming I/O developer conference shows that the company will hold only one, three-hour-long, keynote session this year, for announcing all its planned products.

The decision to hold one single keynote session marks a departure from Google's traditional practice of splitting its I/O speeches over two days, to separately highlight the announcements from its two main developer platforms - Android and Chrome.

During the course of an interview with Bloomberg on Monday, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins questioned the need of mobile devices; and said that, in about five years or so, the popularity of tablets may wane.

With the statement apparently hinting that BlackBerry is likely to cancel its projected move to launch a successor to the company's doomed PlayBook tablet device, Heins told Bloomberg that, five years from now, there probably will be hardly any reason for consumers to own a tablet device.

According to a new 9to5Mac report, Apple's next Mac OS X update - the OS X version 10.9, which has been codenamed `Cabernet' - will likely be released in summer this year; and will boast some noteworthy improvements which will bring OS X more in line with the iOS.

As per the report, citing the information shared by unidentified sources aware of the proceedings at Apple, the OS 10.9 version will not mark a complete system revamp, though some of the subtleties of the new software will include Finder tags and a tabbed browsing mode.

Annual checks recommended for controlling diabetes in Worcestershire are being availed by just 40 per cent of people.

A national audit says that the West Midlands average is 51 per cent and national average is 54 per cent and the percentage of people getting the recommended checks in Worcestershire is way below these averages.

An advertising campaign has been launched in the region by Diabetes UK and the campaign sets the 15 healthcare essentials that every person with diabetes should be receiving.

The LG Optimus F5 smartphone - which was unveiled by LG at the 2013 Mobile World Congress - has been launched in Europe, initially in France. The handset will be released in South and Central America, Asia and the Common-wealth of Independent States (CIS), including India, apparently on the cards in the coming weeks.

With the LG Optimus F Series unleashing a new budget-friendly line of Android handsets boasting LTE connectivity, the Optimus F5 smartphone features a 4.3-inch IPS display; and is powered by a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm dual-core processor.

During the course of his keynote address at the `Big Tent D. C.' event in Washington on Friday, Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt said that the so-called "mobile revolution" is - in the next 5-10 years - apparently set to become "the defining story" for the 57 percent of the world's population that resides in autocratic countries.