Indian equities rallied at the opening time on the back of encouraging global signals and domestic inflationary figures calming down to single digit levels.

But, stocks tumbled into the red zone because of profit booking.

Realty, metal stocks gained ground, while consumer goods, IT and oil & gas stocks have shed a major portion of their early gains.. BSE Midcap and Smallcap index declined 0.38% and 0.19% respectively.

The 30-share index BSE Sensex, today, opened with a gain of 262.92 points, at 9,799.25.

Sony Ericsson has made announcement about the launching of its much-awaited Xperia X1a phone, which will hit US market on November 28.

The phone will be available through the Sony Style stores, which have already started receiving pre-orders from Thursday (November 13).

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1a, which is focused more on lifestyle of a consumer, features a brilliant 3.0-inch 16-bit color TFT touchscreen with a full QWERTY keyboard.

A German doctor said that a patient suffering from leukemia and infected with the immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS could be cured of the virus. A bone marrow transplant from a donor who had a genetic resistance to the virus is said to be the cure.

Dr. Gero Hutter and Thomas Schneider of the Clinic for Gastroenterology, Infections and Rheumatology of the Berlin Charite hospital reported that a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, is free of HIV virus after he received a transplant at their clinic two years ago as seen in tests on the man's bone marrow, blood and other organ tissues.

An American team of researchers has identified eight genes that may play a significant role in leukemia. The study carried out at Washington University in St Louis, by Richard Wilson, who attributed the breakthrough to a fast pace of whole-genome sequencing that is now available at a low price. Wilson said the genes that cause other illness and diseases may also be discovered soon, which will help scientists not only understand the disease but to find a treatment for it as well.

The technology seems to be advancing day by day and it brings happy news for all those who are Gizmo freaks.

To add more to their wardrobe, technology giant LG recently has launched its latest LCD Monitor called ‘LG W1941S’ in the Indian market.

Targeted at office and home users, the plug-and-play LCD from LG comes equipped with a 18.5-inch screen, 1366 x 768 pixels of resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio, 8000:1 DFC, 5 ms response time and viewing angle of 160/160.