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.

On Monday, IBM, the world's largest technology services company, and German software company SAP AG announced that they are thinking to launch their first jointly developed software product in March.

SAP said, "The software -- called Alloy -- combines IBM Lotus Notes software with SAP Business Suite and will be sold by both companies."

Acer's most popular netbook, the 8-inch Aspire one, has been launched. However, as they say, every rose has a thorn, this incredibly small netbook too has some flaws. For starters, many feel that an 8-inch screen would apparently be too small and they expect a netbook with at least 10-inch screen.

But it would be really nice to know that soon Acer would come out with 10-inch version of the same model. Though there has been no word on pricing or availability, it has been learnt that the machines with 10-inches screen will run on the Intel Atom N280/N270.

With the aim to win the hearts of mid- to low-end consumer base, LG has launched two new low-end handsets. The names of these new entries in the LG's lineup are GB110 and the GB106. Both the sets that are equipped with impressive features and offer value for money.