Indian Stock markets opened strong on Monday and gained further ground during first few hours. The markets, however, could not sustain at higher levels and slipped during the last one hour of trading session. BSE Sensex closed at 9161 with a gain of 196 point. NSE Nifty closed 70 points higher at 2784. Buying was witnessed in select counters in Power, Telecom, Real Estate, Metals and Capital goods sectors.

BSE Sensex touched and intraday high of 9432 and a low of 9095.

BSE Auto index started the day stronger but towards of the end of the session, ended only 1.2% up. Banking, Capital Goods, Metals, PSU and Technology counters ended the day stronger. Midcap stocks were marginally down while smallcap stocks gained.

At the Effie 2008 awards, JWT India and Bennett, Coleman & Co managed to gather the limelight. The agencies were awarded last night at Mumbai’s Turf Club. The moment was a perfect replay of this year’s Cannes Lions awards. 

The Lead India campaign for The Times of India, revived its magic all over again by claiming four big awards—including the prestigious Grand Effie—that were given last night, following making a good impression on Cannes juries and winning India’s first ever Grand Prix Lion in June this year. 

Soon, the Asus Eee PC 1000H model of netbooks would be replaced by the company with the 1002HA. Though almost similar design is featured by the new netbook, it has a thinner profile.

A brushed metal external shell and front mounted speakers and the same system specifications as the older model with a 1.6 GHz Intel N270 Atom Processor, 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard disk would also be featured by 1002HA. The new model will be powered by Windows XP.

Google is all set to open its search results to annotation, alteration, and public comment with the aim to enhance user engagement and improve ad revenue potential. 

On Thursday, Google unveiled SearchWiki, a way to customize search results as they appear to one specific Google Account. The good thing is that users can re-rank search results, delete them, add new ones, and maintain notes about specific sites. 

On Friday, Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled its first touch-screen BlackBerry device in the U.S. market. The launch saw long queues of customers standing in lines to grab their very own touch screen BalckBerry Storm. However, the question still remains that how will the new touch screen BlackBerry Storm compete against its biggest rival Apple-iPhone. 

The users of Apple iPhone can now download iPhone 2.2, which helps would help them a lot in navigation as it offers easy way to find directions to a particular place. All the users need to do is click on Google Maps once they have downloaded iPhone 2.2. 

Moreover, Apple has even added novel podcast availability and e-mail functions in iPhone 2.2. One good thing is that users don’t need to learn a lot and won’t have to sit for long period of time in order to download and install it. It works just right away.