Sprint Nextel, one of the four bigwig US wireless providers, witnessed a net loss of a whopping $1.3 billion during fourth quarter, with the key reason behind the ballooning loss figures being the ‘subsidies’ which the carrier offers to its subscribers on the iPhones sold by it.

As the first phase of a campaign by the Welsh Government kick starts, across Wales, parents and child carers are being asked not to smoke in their cars.

Cars are the main target of this campaign that is known as the Fresh Start Wales Campaign and it aims at saving kids from second-hand smoke and the risks associated with it as the smoke inside cars gets confined to one place.

According to a survey, parents fear children seeing inappropriate content over the internet the most.

The National Parents Council Primary and the National Centre for Technology in Education carried out the survey and it stated that concerns about children getting an access to inappropriate content over internet was shown by about 83 per cent of parents.

In an attempt to avoid life-threatening diseases, OZ scientists are trying to make designer babies that have the DNA of three parents.

Multi-organ failures and problems like heart problems, liver problems and muscle conditions will be eradicated by removing defective genes and replacing them with healthy DNA from a donor, IVF specialists stated.

Fraught with danger is what the procedure has been described by scientific opponents and they said that this procedure will make sure that children do not get severe genetic conditions from mothers.

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.