Thursday witnessed the launch of touch-screen smartphone, ‘Xperia X1’, by Sony Ericson, a 50:50 joint venture between Sony and Ericsson. Carrying a price tag of Rs 44,500, the latest smartphone is equipped with lots of multimedia features. It is basically aimed to serve the needs of the users related to converged entertainment and mobile web communication experience.

Anil Sethi, Sony Ericsson India President, said, “Xperia, aimed to offer energizing communication and premium mobile experience, with the promise of quality and functionality.”

The latest reports have informed that soon, the iPhone users would be able to use their voices to browse the web with the help of a new application from Google.

A well known newspaper has revealed that an online voice search application for Apple’s mobile phone is all set to be launched by the company as early as this week.

This entry of search engine giant with a free iPhone application will prove to be the first venture of the company into voice-based search.

The Oscar Winning and Hollywood's most powerful and famous actress for years, Angelina Jolie has declared that she wants to retire and take over the role of 'Mother' in real life. The actress and husband Pitt have six children namely a 7 year old son Maddox, whom Jolie adopted in Cambodia in 2002, a 3 years old daughter Zahara, whom she adopted in year 2006 from Ethiopia, Pax, 4, from Vietnam, a 2-year-old biological daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt and the newly born twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.

The famous reality show on entertainment channel Colors, 'BIGG BOSS 2, is once again the talk of the town as its last four inmates Raja Chaudhary, Rahul Mahajan, Zulfi Sayed and Ashutosh Kaushik jumped walls and sneaked out of the house to eat some good food. They were sick of cooking and decided to venture out. They were immediately traced by the cameras and brought in by the security. The production house says, "We were following their every action, but waited for them to leave the house as we are prohibited by contract to enter."

Indian tyre manufacturer Apollo Tyres, has announced an investment of Rs 3,000 crores in the next five years to establish greenfield plants in India as well as abroad, along with expansion of existing production units.

The company, by doing so, is targeting to join the league of top six tyre makers internationally. Apollo is aiming at a $4 Billion turnover in the next five years, by setting up units in Chennai and East Europe.

British director Danny Boyle's latest offering, 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a film the critics in the US are raving about. An adaptation from Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup's bestselling novel - 'Q & A' - the film is being predicted to go all the way to the Oscars!

Critical acclaim for the film, starring Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Dev Patel, has come from all over - from syndicated film critic Roger Ebert, whose reviews get published in 200 US newspapers, to mainstream dailies like the New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today.