Staff Reporter

The US Supreme Court has ruled private businesses cannot patent human genes.

The decision, scientists and civil rights campaigners said, removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.

Web giant Google is reportedly laying off 1,200 employees from its Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc, which the company bought in 2012 for 12.4 billion dollars, according to a source.

 The source claimed that the majority of the latest round of layoffs, which comes seven months after Google said that it was eliminating 4,000 jobs from the newly acquired Motorola, will occur outside the U.S, The Washington Post reports.

 Motorola Mobility spokesman Gabe Madway said that the cuts are a continuation of reductions announced last year, and added that the company is committed to helping the affected employees through the transition.

H.E. Vishnu Prakash, Indian Ambassador to Korea, will present a lecture entitled ‘India’s Ties with South Korea and East Asia: Present and Future’ at Asia Society Korea Center’s Monthly Luncheon Series.

Chinese tech giant Huawei is preparing to overtake Apple and Samsung in the mobile phone market, a report has said. Wan Biao is the chief executive of Huawei Devices, the division of the company leading the charge to move from controversial infrastructure provider to a top global company whose products consumers aspire to own.

Conceptualised and manufactured in India, this indigenous on board bus surveillance solution is set to impart a greater sense of security among the commuters and make bus journeys a safer experience.

 Keeping in mind the growing demand for on-location surveillance systems for buses, Gurgaon based Shyam Networks (a division of VNL) has announced the availability of its “On Board Bus Surveillance Solution”. Conceptualised, designed and manufactured at its facility in Gurgaon, India, this solution is perfect for Indian conditions and comes at a time when the public transportation sector is seriously looking at enhancing the security cover inside buses. The IP based On Board Bus Surveillance Solution helps transport authorities meet their surveillance goals effectively and ensures better safety for the passenger community.

The eventual fate of our Universe may be determined by probing the properties of the Higgs boson, scientists have said.

 They believe that a concept known as vacuum instability could result, billions of years from now, in a new universe opening up in the present one and replacing it, the BBC reported. It all depends on some precise numbers related to the Higgs that researchers are currently trying to pin down. A "Higgs-like" particle was first seen at the Large Hadron Collider last year.

Associated with an energy field that pervades all space, the boson helps explain the existence of mass in the cosmos. In other words, it underpins the workings of all the matter we see around us.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has said he is determined to make it easier for Indian businessmen and students to work, study and invest in the UK, as he arrived in India for a three-day visit.

 On his arrival to Mumbai as the head of the largest trade mission ever, Cameron made clear that in return, he wanted India to tear down outdated barriers to investment and help UK-based companies in areas such as insurance and banking to establish a foothold in the fast-growing economy.According to the Daily Star, speaking on the first day of his second visit to India as PM, Cameron revealed he was talking to the government in Delhi about the prospects for a new corridor of development between Mumbai and Bangalore.

Sales of mobiles phones have fallen for the first time since 2009 as consumers opt for expensive smartphones rather than cheaper handsets, a report has said. According to the research firm Gartner, overall in 2012, 1.75 billion mobile phones were sold, down 1.7 per cent from 2011.

Samsung and Apple continued to dominate the market, with the Korean giant selling 385 million phones in 2012, of which 53.5 per cent were smartphones.According to the report, with Apple sold 130 million smartphones in the same period.

The iPhone 5 has been a massive success since its launch in the middle of last year. As with all the products in the Apple stable the iPhone 5 was a perfect mix of innovation and style giving it the “must have” factor that so many handset manufacturers strive for. As well as this, the larger screen and improved operating system meant big things for gaming, particularly for those who enjoy taking their games with them wherever they go.