In an evident effort to facilitate the Google Drive users in collaboratively using Google's cloud-based storage service for working together on documents and files, Google has recently revealed that it has added profile pictures and 1-click group chat to Google Drive.

With the latest additions to Google Drive notably enhancing the collaborative features of the service, Google's software engineer Eric Zhang said in a blog post that when users open a file in Drive, they will be able to see the profile pictures of other viewers alongside their names.

In what marked the final step in the approval of the merger deal between T-Mobile and MetroPCS, it was announced on Wednesday that the MetroPCS shareholders have given their go-ahead to the combined T-Mobile/MetroPCS company.

The T-Mobile/MetroPCS merger deal - which is likely to close by May 1 - has already been approved by the boards of MetroPCS and T-Mobile's parent Deutsche Telekom. In addition, the deal has also got the legal nod from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as well as the US Department of Justice (DoJ).

Opponents could not succeed in an attempt to overturn the new rules regarding NHS competition regulations.

The aim of the Labour move was to throw out Section 75, and if this happens then NHS services to market competition will be opened up but this was defeated in the House of Lords.

A petition against David Cameron's `new privatization plot' was signed by about 300,000 people, who are worried about the entire thing.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog has revealed in a recent report that the Apple iPhone 4 users affected by the device's `antennagate' issue have started receiving their $15 settlement checks through mail.

The $15 settlement checks are being sent to the iPhone 4 owners who had filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple over their handset's `antennagate' problem, which underscored some signal issues in the handset. The iPhone
4 users who are getting the settlement checks can get them cashed till July 16.

According to a new study, the country's obesity crisis are being exacerbated by Nigella Lawson and other celebrity chefs as they encourage people to consume dishes packed with fat.

The government's healthy eating recommendations were outrightly avoided by 87 per cent of recipes belonging to 26 famous cooks who were renowned. For this, experts tested 900 recipes.

Ingredients that led to a healthy diet were recommended by just 13 per cent of cooks and followed guidelines devised by the Government's Food Standards Agency.

Reports are making rounds that LG's forthcoming press event, scheduled to be held in New York on May 1, will likely witness the company introducing its Optimus G Pro smartphone, the first LG handset to breach the
5-inch mark.

The most controversial issue of the NHS reforms is competition. More so, during the passage of the Health and Social Care Act.

The government has favoured clinical commissioning groups of CCGs using competition as a tool where it fits the bill and is of some help to patient care.

The members of the Anonymous hacktivist group have given a call for an `Internet Blackout Day' on Monday, April 22; a move which comes in protest of the recent passage of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by the US House of Representatives.

CISPA was passed last Thursday, after the House of Representatives voted 288-127 in favor of the act which, according to the fact sheet released to the public, is chiefly aimed at protecting networks from cyber threats and at serving as a means of protecting national security.

The 2013 Shanghai Auto Show on Friday marked the debut of the newest version of the Buick Riviera concept vehicle --- a `wireless plug-in' hybrid electric vehicle which retains most of the original exterior lines of the 2007 Buick Riviera concept, while also boasting some highly noteworthy enhancements over the original version.

Reporting its 2013 first-quarter results on Thursday, Verizon Communications said that its quarterly earnings increased 16 percent; with the company's margins witnessing a notably improvement due to the addition of pre-paid wireless subscribers.

According to the figures reported by Verizon, there was a 15.8 percent increase, to $1.95 billion, in the company net income during the first quarter, in which the bigwig telecom company not only added more wireless subscribers, but also saw a steady growth in its FiOS pay-TV and broadband business.