Google Inc.'s video-sharing site YouTube has become a major platform for news as more and more Internet users are turning to the site to access news, a study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism revealed.

After studying the most popular news videos on YouTube for around 15 months, researchers found that a growing percentage of videos being posted and viewed on Youtube are serious news.

While Nokia described the Lumia 900 price cut as a `normal strategy,' the move apparently shows that the Finnish handset maker's woes are worsening.

Nokia slashed the price of the Lumia 900 from $99 to just $49.99, a little more than three months after the smartphone hit AT&T stores in April.

Confirming the price cut, Nokia spokesperson Doug Dawson said, "This move is a normal strategy that is put in place during the life cycle of most phones. [It] allows a broader consumer base to buy this flagship device at a more accessible price."

According to a Saturday post on the Japan-based Apple fan blog Macotakara, some unnamed Chinese sources have revealed that the much-awaited Apple iPhone 5 is now in the production stage --- a revelation which coincides with the availability of third-party cases that have been designed for the forthcoming iPhone.

With the Macotakara blog post disclosing that the production of iPhone 5 has been ramped up by China-based manufacturers of the device, it has also been reported that there probably will be some minor design changes coming aboard the smartphone from parts allegedly leaked in May.

According to a recent report from USA Today, software giant Microsoft will likely introduce the next version of its money-making software suite - which will probably be officially labeled as `Office 2013' - on Monday.

Going by the newspaper report, citing details shared by unidentified sources, it will be during the course of a July 16-scheduled news conference that host Steve Ballmer - the CEO of Microsoft - will take the wraps off the software, which has been codenamed "Office 15" by the company. In fact, the sources said that the conference will pivot around the new Office offering.

It has been reported that heart attack symptoms differ in women. As compared to men, the chances of having a chest pain during a heart attack are lesser among women.

There are various symptoms that a heart attack can cause in different people and these can be tingling in the limbs to crushing chest pains along with nausea and breathlessness.

To examine these differences, US researchers made an attempt to figure out just how common chest pain and discomfort is for each gender, and if there were indications following this that a patient might die.

Melinda Gates has attracted both applause and criticism for her generosity expressed at a summit in London where she expressed her willingness to help women in the developing countries with access to contraceptives.

Being rich is not easy and especially when you enjoy the tag of being the richest woman in the world. Her husband Bill Gates has a fortune of about $53bn and it becomes all the more difficult when you decide to go ahead with your decision of helping people at the cost of upsetting religious institutions and offending the forces of conservatism.

Apple Inc. suffered a fall in PC sales in the United States in the second quarter that ended June 30, according to market research firms IDC.

According to figures compiled by IDC, the Cupertino, California-based computer maker sold fewer Macs in the country in the three months to the end of June as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year.

The figures show that Apple shipped 1.81 million Mac computers in the United States during the concerned three months quarter, down 1.1 per cent from the 1.83 million Macs sold in the corresponding period of 2011.

The bug that allowed hackers to steal more than 450,000 passwords from one of Yahoo's services has been fixed, the Internet search firm claimed.

Some unknown hacker/s recently breached the cyber security of Yahoo, and stole a file from the Yahoo Voices that contained thousands of users' credentials.

Since the Legionnaire’s outbreak that started in Edinburgh in May, there has been one more confirmed case and this makes the total number of cases to 100.

For some time the person was not well, according to the health secretary and the treatment was going on in hospital.

This makes the number of confirmed cases to about 52 and it has been reported by figures that the total number of suspected cases are 48.

This outbreak has taken away three lives and it is being suspected that it took place due to a cooling tower in the city.

According to market research firms IDC and Gartner, the slumping PC sales have delivered a blow to the entire tech industry, with the impact of the slowing consumers sales being felt not only by a number of OEMs, chiefly HP and Dell, but also by chip makers like AMD and chip equipment vendor Applied Materials.