Microsoft on Monday offered its HealthVault as a new care center for digitized medical records kept at Google's dying Health service.

Google announced last month that it is pulling the plug on its free Health service because it hasn't flourished since its launch in early 2008.

Chinese search engine Baidu.com says it is launching a music download service with three global music labels in China in a deal that ends legal disputes with them.

Baidu said Tuesday it will distribute music online with Universal Music, Warner Music, and Sony Music and pay them for the content. The downloads are available only in China and will compete with a similar service run by rival Google Inc.

At the end of a long day, many gamers zone out by competing in online death matches, or they check out by escaping to virtual realms. Spiritual leader Deepak Chopra is hoping gamers will instead choose to chill out with "Leela," his ambitious new effort to combine gaming and meditation.

"I personally believe that you can accelerate neural development and biological evolution through video games," said Chopra. "Unfortunately, that's not what we're doing right now. What we're doing is creating addictions to violence, adrenaline and mindlessness, rather than mindfulness. That was my personal motivation to get involved in this medium."

South Korean student Hwang Jin-Joo no longer sends text messages to his extensive circle of friends, he "KaTalks" them.

Kakao Talk, a mobile messenger Smartphone application, has enjoyed phenomenal success since it was launched 16 months ago and has spawned similar apps in the world's most wired nation.

South Korea's Samsung LED said on Sunday it had asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban U.S. imports of goods made by Osram due to a patent row with the German lighting firm.

Samsung, in a complaint filed on Friday, accused Osram of patent infringement in eight core light emitting diode (LED) technologies and also filed a suit in the U.S. District Court in Delaware seeking damages.

An UltraViolet platform for letting people buy lifetime viewing rights to films is poised to launch in the United States.

The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) alliance said Friday that it is licensing the technology to retail businesses and that UltraViolet offerings should be available by October.

Apple on Friday released a software update to patch a vulnerability that hackers could use to break into the company's popular iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch gadgets.

The flaw made it possible for hackers to infiltrate Apple mobile devices by duping users into opening PDF document files booby-trapped with malicious computer code.

Opera Mini web-browsing software for smart phones has become an antidote for congested telecom networks and carrier bills that rise along with the amount of data streamed to handsets.

As the popularity of smart phones and tablets continues to surge and telecom carriers shy away from all-you-can-eat wireless data plans, Opera is wooing users with technology that minimizes bytes of data streamed over the air.

Google chief Larry Page said Thursday that the Internet giant's freshly launched Google+ social network already has more than 10 million members.

"Over 10 million people have joined Google-Plus," Page said during a quarterly earnings conference call. "That is a great achievement for the team."

Even with a fee hike, millions of Netflix subscribers will be spending less each month than what it costs two adults to watch a single movie in a theater.

Yet the company, which is usually well-liked, managed to irk many of its 23 million U.S. customers by raising what it charges for streaming movies and TV shows over the Internet and sending DVDs by mail. The increase is as high as 60 percent.