Hyundai, the second-biggest car maker in India by sales volume, has launched the all new Verna with luxurious interiors and improved exterior features to lure domestic customers.

The newly launched Verna range includes two petrol variants - 1.6 VTVT & 1.6 SX VTVT - and two diesel variants - 1.5 CRDi VGT & 1.5 SX CRDi VGT, which will be available with both - a 5-speed manual and a 4-speed automatic transmission.

Parsvnath Hotels Ltd. a subsidiary of Parsvnath Developers Limited (PDL), India's leading real estate and Infrastructure Company, has received 5 star category project approval from Ministry of Tourism, Government of India for its hotel project, situated at Hyderabad.

The project spread over an area of approximately 11063.68 sq. meters area would offer a judicious blend of Shopping Mall, Office Complexes and a Five Star category Hotel.

Since the 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.

Sugato Sen, senior director at SIAM, reported, "The auto industry was going, to a large extent, due to the easy availability of credit. But now banks have significantly cut their exposure to auto loans."

The desperate users 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 be make its debut at next week's Mobile World Congress expo in Barcelona.

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.

The latest rumors which are floating all around are that Nokia will soon come out with an AppStore for its Symbian OS. If the rumors are true then the latest store will be announced officially during the upcoming Mobile World Congress, which is set to take place in Barcelona from 16th to 19th February.

No doubt, if Nokia comes out with an AppStore for Symbian, it will definitely help it to gin some advantage and it won't come as a big surprise too since last year the Finnish mobile phones maker has announced the Symbian Foundation.