"People-pleasers"- who put their own needs behind the needs of others- tend to overeat in social situations, a new study says.

The study, published in the Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology, says people-pleasers tend to overeat in social settings to make sure others feel more comfortable.

According to the information shared by the people involved in the project pertaining to the deployment of smartphones to US government and military, some US officials will likely be given smartphones equipped with the capability of handling classified government documents over cellular networks.

During the course of a Friday briefing for analysts in Tokyo, console-maker Nintendo's President, Satoru Iwata, said that his company had plans underway to launch its new Wii U home console in time for the 2012 year-end holiday shopping season.

Celebrity chef Paula Deen, celebrity TV chef who aggressively promoted her butter-heavy Southern cooking over the past years, recently pledged to donate a fraction of her earnings from a well-paid endorsement deal with a diabetes drug-maker Novo Nordisk to the American Diabetes Association (ADA).

In what came as a disquieting surprise for most investors, Internet search giant Google Thursday reported weaker-than-projected results for the 2011 fourth quarter, largely due to lower advertising prices and the debt woes that hit Europe.

In what apparently will be a notable setback for Apple in its attempts to prove that the Android-based devices ‘copy’ the iPhone, the US International Trade Commission (ITC)’s early ruling in the Apple-Motorola Mobility patent infringement battle has gone the way of Motorola Mobility.

At the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the charge in the operating systems (OS) arena was led predominantly by the increasingly popular Google Android OS, which powered a horde of smartphones and tablets displayed at the show.