The Indian market has witnessed the launch of the Inspiron Mini 12 netbook model by the US based company Dell Inc. At Rs 31,000, the Inspiron Mini 12 is not cheap by Netbook standards. It is available in India's retail market through select Croma stores.

Virgin Mobiles has introduced a new scheme in India that will allow its customers to send up to 200 SMSes per day, which includes 100 local and national SMSes free by paying for just 3 SMSes of each leg (National and Local) with no other hidden conditions applied.

Chandrayaan-1's Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer (C1XS) has successfully detected the first X-ray signature from the Moon.

HTC has announced that it will launch its new communicator, the 2009 HTC Touch Cruise, by late 2009.

Continuing its thrust to offer unmatched value through innovative propositions, telecom services provider Tata Indicom has introduced an attractive bundled Surfathon offer along with USB Modem called Plug2Surf for a price of Rs 2769.

To increase their sales and observing the trend of increased market demand for low end-mobile phones, LG introduced two new handsets, the all new LG GB106 and LG GB110.

Italian auto major Ducati Motor has picked India's Tata Consultancy Services for a multi year, multi-million dollar deal for its technology based services aimed at enhancing customer responsiveness and business efficiency.

Infosys Technologies has kicked off a relationship with United Stationers Supply Co, North America's largest broadline wholesale distributor of business products, to implement a centrally-managed electronic catalog system that presents and makes United Stationers' content available to its resellers through a suite of web services.

More news on the Chandrayaan-1 front.

  Proving to be a hit in the southern region of the country, Big TV has clocked a figure of 500,000 subscribers in the four southern states within five months of its launch. The company said that this has also placed it in the unique position of being the fastest growing DTH player in the country.