As demand fell due to economic uncertainty and tight credit, there was a fall by 3.2 percent in January in the sales of cars in India, which marked the sixth drop in seven months.  

On Monday, data from the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) displayed that 110,212 units in the month were sold by car makers, down from 113,894 sold a year earlier.

These days, the market has been flooded with new and novel Netbooks. To fit the pocket of the consumers, the companies are coming with smaller screen Netbooks, which carry a reasonable price tag. But still users prefer at least a 10-inch screen when it comes to choosing Netbook with small screen; and keeping this thing in mind, Acer that owns a huge chunk of the growing Netbook market and had the Acer Aspire One with a 9-inch screen, is coming out with a 10-inch model.   

The Phenom II lineup by AMD was updated by the company on Monday with latest quad-core and its first triple-core Phenom II processors, across the DDR-3 memory transition in the process.

Other than this, five new Phenom II processors, three of which are quad-core chips: the 2.5-GHz, Phenom II X4 805; the 2.6-GHz X4 810; and the 2.6-GHz X4 910, were also launched by AMD. The 2.6-GHz Phenom II X3 710 and the new 2.8-GHz X3 720 "Black Edition", included in others, are basically the maiden triple-core Phenom II microprocessors by AMD.  

Mobile manufacturers are trying to beat slowdown by launching more models with interesting features. Consumers were provided a glimpse by LG of its new flagship multimedia cell phone, dubbed as Arena on Sunday. It has been learnt that the set would make its debut at next week's Mobile World Congress expo in Barcelona.

On Sunday, a well known paper put forward the latest piece of news that Microsoft Corp is mulling to provide new programs and services for mobile phones, including an “online bazaar” for software. 

The report published in the paper said that the online bazaar would be for phones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system.

It said, “Microsoft will also soon offer its latest version of Windows Mobile, which the report said would have a more sophisticated interface.”

Indian Public Sector Undertaking Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), has received an order worth Rs 1672 crore from Bangalore Metro Rail Corp to supply 150 metro rail coaches by October 2010.

In addition, BEML is also likely to get an additional order for 63 Metro coaches for further expansion and extension of proposed Metro lines in the city. The value of order will be about Rs 600 crore.

It may be noted that Bangalore-based Company earlier won an order worth Rs 1365 crore from Delhi Metro Rail Corp to supply rail coaches.