As we all know, the Indian market is flourishing with novel netbooks and the latest edition is the Dell's newly launched Inspiron Mini 12 netbook.

The new and Inspiron Mini 12 is supported by the 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530, and is equipped with a 533MHz FSB, a Intel US15W chipset, and a 1GB DDR2 533MHz and 80GB 4200RPM HDD.

Other exciting features of this 1.24 kg netbook are WiFi (802.11b/g), 1.3 megapixel webcam, and Bluetooth. Mini 12 runs on the Windows XP Home edition instead of Windows Vista offered in the US.

With the aim to become the first operators in the world to launch 4G, TeliaSonera has signed contracts with Ericson and Huawei and by 2010; the 4G network would be rolled out commercially.

It won't be wrong to say that this contract has made an important step in the evolution of TeliaSonera to the next generation network.

For the initial 4G City network in Stockholm, Ericson has been chosen by TeliaSonera, while for the initial 4G City network in Oslo, Huawei has been selected. Furthermore, it has also been learnt that the evaluation of suppliers for its 4G networks in the Nordic and Baltic countries are said to be on.

The U. K. market recently witnessed the official launch of the long-rumored 10-inch Acer Aspire One netbook by Acer. The motive behind the launch of this 10-inch screen net-book is primarily to update its popular 8.9-inch Acer Aspire One and also to serve to the needs of mobile employees.

Gianfranco Lanci, president and CEO of Acer, said in a statement, "Despite the recent problems of the financial markets and general economic uncertainty, the netbook and notebook markets will continue to grow in 2009."

The end of 2009 will see launch of a third small car by General Motors, the fifth largest car manufacturer in the country. The auto major has been enjoying the success of its two car brands, Spark and U-VA in India market.

It was reported by Karl Slym, President & MD, General Motors, India at the launch of the company's bestselling SUV Chevrolet Captiva Automatic, "The new Chevrolet Mini will not be a competition to Tata Motors Nano. We are not in the numbers game. It will be positioned above the Chevrolet U-VA."

Mirae Asset Mutual Fund, a leading asset management cum financial services Provider Company has rolled out 'Mirae Asset Gilt Fund', an open-ended Gilt scheme in the domestic market.

Through the launch, the company is offering investors the opportunity to participate in a portfolio comprising of Government Securities issued/guaranteed by Central and State Governments with varied maturity through Savings and Investment plans.

Recently, the announcement of eScan 10, antivirus, content security and firewall software was made by MicroWorld.

GUI has been simplified in eScan 10 that will now make it easier to operate for a novice user too. Furthermore, eScan 10 also provides multi-level protection with advanced configuration control apart from featuring real time network activity monitor making use of a TCP viewer utility.