According to experts, there might be a 20 per cent rise in the price of unhealthy drinks and food and will be called as `fat taxes' and this needs to be done to bring down obesity and illnesses that are related to diet.

A research has stated that along with this there should be subsidies on vegetables and fruits to bring a rise in healthy dietary habits.

Health-related food taxes were studied by academics led by Dr Oliver Mytton and Dr Mike Rayner of the Department of Public Health at Oxford University and every possible evidence was examined by them around the world.

According to a ZDnet report, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB)'s investigation into a `smoking iPhone' incident last fall has revealed that the Apple handset had apparently got overheated because of a repair carried out by an unauthorized repair center.

It was on a Regional Express (REX) flight from Lismore to Sydney in November last year that "dense smoke" was emitted by an iPhone 4, apparently due to overheating; and a fire extinguisher had to be used to put out the black smoke coming from the handset.

During the course of a recent wide-ranging interview with The Verge, ex-Apple engineer Tony Fadell revealed that when Apple was first working on the original iPhone, one of the options which the company was mulling was a physical keyboard for the smartphone.

Fadell - who quit Apple to found learning thermostat firm called Nest - told the On The Verge web-TV show that the idea which Apple toyed with for the original iPhone was that of giving the handset a physical keyboard, rather than the full touchscreen which eventually transformed the mobile handset industry.

With T-Mobile carrying the HTC One S - the Taiwanese handset maker's new flagship line of premium smartphones for the US market -, a new commercial launched recently by the carrier specifically touts the handset's notably speedy performance.

The new T-Mobile commercial has the leather suit-attired `T-Mobile girl' - actress Carly Foulkes - racing through town on a motorcycle; with the underlying message essentially being that the carrier boasts `a speedy 4G network to be reckoned with.'

Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo 3 open beta weekend - from April 20, 3 p. m., Eastern, to April 23, 1 p. m, Eastern – was supposed to be a stress test for the forthcoming title, but it actually ending up stressing out the gamers and testing their patience no end!

According to Forbes, the Diablo 3 open beta weekend was referred to as a "stress test”, so that developers could work out the final kinks in the title. However, the “stress test” turned out to be a rather stressful affair for the interested gamers instead.

Posting a back-to-back record operating profit for the 2012 first quarter, South Korea-based electronics giant Samsung Electronics said in a Friday statement that its quarterly profit had touched a record 5.8 trillion won ($5.1 billion); marking a notable year-on-year increase from the same quarter last year figures of 2.95 trillion won.

Revealing that the first-quarter profit figures reported by the company had surpassed analysts’ estimates, Samsung said that the analysts had, in a Bloomberg pool, projected that the company’s profit for the quarter will be 5 trillion won.