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Maruti Suzuki India Ltd announces to launch a transformed form of its Swift car with a better mileage, with 1.2-litre petrol and 1.3-litre diesel variants. The company claimed that the new Swift will be better than the present model of Swift.

The new model will be spacious, lighter in weight by replacing the metal fuel tank with a plastic tank and most importantly, the car will be fuel-efficient. The engineers claimed that the fuel-efficiency was going to improve by 13%. The price details about the car were not declared by the Company.

UK Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has described the telecom operator’s opposition to the published anti-privacy laws as "quite odd".

Inter service providers, TalkTalk and BT lost a judicial review of the already published Digital Economy Act. The companies say that the process requiring sending of warning letters to accused infringers and cutting off the connection of persistent offenders may be illegal and should not be funded by public sector companies.

Hewlett-Packard has hired British actor, Russell Brand for promoting its TouchPad computer tablet.

The actor features in a serious of videos offering a funny look at some of the major features of the tablet. H takes users though brief details of some of the major functionality of the tablet combining marketing talk and humor.

Glenn Mulcaire, 40, who is accused of hacking phones and was jailed in in January 2007 for intercepting the phone calls of royal aides, has said that he is sorry.

Mulcaire affirmed that he did not intend to derail the police investigation. He hacked into the voice mail for the News of the World, said “I want to apologise to anybody who was hurt or upset.

A new international body has been established in order to fight cyber criminals on a global scale with the backing of business and government agencies in different countries around the world.

The International Cyber Security Protection Alliance (ICSPA), which was launched today, is backed by several security companies including McAfee and Trend Micro, while Europol is the major law agency to join the initiative. The government of the UK has also announced its backing for the body.

PayPal UK’s Twitter account has been hacked by cyber criminals, whoa re using the account to post messages criticizing the online payment processing company.

The message claimed it is from an unsatisfied customer, who said the company "froze all my money for no reason". The hacker criticized eBay subsidiary for its poor security and encouraged users to go to PayPal Sucks, a website which claims to be focus on exposing "the nightmare of doing business" through PayPal.