German automaker, Volkswagen has announced the pricing details of its upcoming ‘Volkswagen up!’ model. The car will come with a starting price of £7,995 while the limited edition flagship models will cost £11,180.

The Up! Model, which was first revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show, will be available with a choice of three 1.0-litre, three-cylinder petrol engines. The car will come in three trim levels including, Take up!, Move up! and High up!, while there are two specials edition, the up! black and up! white.

Automaker, Nissan has chosen six new dealerships in the UK, who will now offer the company’s all-electric Leaf model besides existing dealers.

The company has said that it is expanding the dealership network to improve the regional coverage of the Leaf's availability. The new six dealers will take the number of dealers offering Leaf in the UK to 32. The new dealers will be the ones to feature the new, smaller quick-charge DC equipment allowing faster charging in a decreased equipment size.

Technology giant, Apple might offer a MicroUSB charger for its newly released upgraded iPhone 4S in European countries.

The The £8 iPhone micro-USB adaptor will go on sale along with the new iPhone 4S. The move could address a general concern of Apple users who were not able to charge their deivce in common places unless they carried special Apple chargers.

UK based sport car maker, Ginetta has announced the launch of its new G60 model, which his based on the company's F400 model but comes with a host of improvements.

Ginetta G60 is powered by 3.7-litre V6 engine, basting 310bhp and 288lb ft of torque, which is also used in Ginetta G55 race car. The model is also lighter due to the extensive use of carbon fibre as well as a redesigned chassis and lightweight components.

Italian automotive major, Ferrari is planning to offer a new mid-engine V8 sports car, the Ferrari 458 Spider.

The model, which is the hardtop convertible version of the company's superlative 458 Italia, features a different rear deck with downward sloping bodywork towards meshed vents into two rear air intakes integrated into the tail spoiler.

South Korean electronics giant, Hyundai’s new i40 saloon model will come with a starting price of £17,395 in the UK.

The new model is available with the Touring’s three main trim levels - Active, Style and Premium. The buyers will have a choice two engines, including the 1.6-litre Gdi Blue Drive or the 1.7-litre CRDi in 113bhp or 134bhp guises.

Hyundai’s UK MD Tony Whitehorn said, the new saloon “shares the same qualities found in the i40 Tourer - offering outstanding levels of fuel-efficiency, comfort, quality, and a high level of standard equipment all at an accessible price.”

Fiat group’s Chrysler has announced the launch of two new models in the UK: the Ypsilon and the Delta.

The two models are already on sale with the Lancia badge in some European countries. Lancia, has withdrawn from the UK market more than a decade ago mainly due to poor reputation of its models and has chosen to launch the new model under Chryslers instead of taking the risks of a re-launch.

In order to meet pending orders, Toyota has delayed launch of first compact car Liva by at least two months. This decision comes at a time, when Toyota is working hard to meet orders of its Etios in India.

Etios was launched in January in India, and soon after its launch, the car received upper hand from customers resulting in a booking of 26,500 cars in a short span of time. These booking orders made a big gap of supply and demand resulting in a waiting period of 6 months for few customers. So the company, not willing to increase waiting period of new customers, decided to postpone the launch of Liva.

Leading telecom service provider in India, Bharti Airtel, announced launch of its 3G services in capital city of India, New Delhi and in NCR as well.

Airtel is already operating 3G mobile telephone in 7 other cities in India namely, Begaluru, Coimbtore, Mysore, Udipi, Jaipur, Chennai and Manipal. Atul Bindal, Bharti Airtel (Mobile Services), said reporters that by the end of this month, Airtel will launch its services in all 13 license circles.

Maruti Suzuki all set to enter the luxury sedan segment. The company is ready to take on Honda and Skoda. Maruti Suzuki is the leading car maker of the country with holding around 50% of the market share. It is now ready to enter the luxury sedan fragment.

Honda and Skoda had captured this particular segment by providing superior quality and higher brand value. Now it will be a real challenge for the domestic car manufacturer like Maruti Suzuki to share the stage with global biggies like Honda and other sedan series.   

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Public sector telephone service provider has announced its plan to expand its 3G services to 60 more cities, taking the number to 760 cities. According to Chairman and Managing Director BSNL, Gopal Das, this target will be fulfilled by the end of this fiscal year.

 ‘Mantri’ a residential complex promoted by Mantri Developers has been offered new broadband services through fiber-optic cables by BSNL.

Mr. Gopal Das said that new broadband service make use of fiber-optic cables and optical electronics instead of copper wire and DSL equipment. The company is planning to provide FTTH service to the appealing customers in 127 cities across the country.

Technology major Apple plans to launch an entire re programmed dual GSM-CDMA iPhone, an iPad comprising a increased-resolution screen and an SD card slot, and a fresh and new Apple TV along with an A5 processor competent of giving out 1080p video, as stated by a fresh statement.

Technology blog Engadget on Friday made available a lot of chit chats regarding Apple's forth coming product line for the year 2011, comprising the iPhone 5, iPad 2 and the 2nd generation of the re developed Apple TV.

The news states that the fresh iPad is on the line for a launch in April this year, and the 3G edition shall be including both GSM and CDMA radios by Qualcomm.

Spice Mobiles has launched its multi-SIM phones M-6363 & M-5161.

These mobiles are equipped with wide screens with making video and image viewing a pleasure. It has a great battery which is capable of viewing a full movie without any charging.

Spice Mobiles have kept these mobiles at Rs. 2499 & Rs. 2999.

M-6363 has 2 inch screen with 2 mega pixel camera, Video player with multiple format support, MP3 Player, FM recording with Wireless FM, Dual Expandable Memory Slots & Bluetooth.

A new Android handset Galaxy U (SHW-M130L) is all set to launch by Samsung Electronics in their home country South Korea by the end of this week. Samsung has announced its features and capabilities officially and it is expected that it supports wireless carrier LG u+.

Galaxy U will be available in two colours, black and white and the price tagged with the device is Rs 80,000 i.e. $682.

Talking about its specifications, it has 1GHz S5PC111 processor with Samsung preloaded on it, which is friendly to work with Google's Android 2.1 OS.

Samsung has officially proclaimed of two new models of smartphones in India. The models to be released are Samsung Champ and Omnia Lite.

Samsung Champ is deemed as the smallest and cheapest touchscreen handset available at the moment.

The features of the phone include a 2.4-inch resistive touchscreen with a QVGA resolution, a 1.3 megapixel camera at the back side and come with connectivity options like Bluetooth and USB. The phone is priced at Rs. 4,100 only, making it as aforementioned the cheapest touchscreen handset.

A new range of three handsets are publicized by Videocon, namely; Qruz V1425, V1424 and V1430.

All the three phones have separate highlighting features like Qruz V1425 is a 100W PMPO Music Output phone with large speakers. It will be a treat for music lovers who love to hear music with incredible loud speakers. The device is loaded with extra large boom speaker with a back cover mesh grill, a VGA camera, Bluetooth, 1200 mAH battery, an MP3 player. This dual SIM phone possess 2 inch TFT screen with high resolution.

The National Capital is set for another scorching day Saturday with the maximum temperature expected to float around 40 degrees Celsius.

While the city still keenly awaits the rainfall, a thunderstorm is expected in some regions, a weather representative said.

An India Meteorological Department (IMD) official stated that Delhi registered a minimum temperature of 30.5 degrees Saturday - three notches above normal for this time of the year.

But, regions of the city could see a thunderstorm.

Lemon Mobiles has introduced its all new Smartphone, the iQ 707 for the Indian markets. Opera Mini Browser is preloaded in this handset. So it will provide easy internet access to its users at point of time at any place.

The mobile has a QWERTY keyboard and a 3.2MP camera. Apart from that it has all other features that can attract the Indian consumers. It has Java features with quadband and EDGE.

iQ 707 has a2.2 inch display with facilities like FM, Voice Recorder, MP3 Player and Bluetooth. Opera Mini Web browser has been the main advantage of this phone over its contemporary rivals.

G-Fone has launched the G-Fone 571, its all new dual SIM handset in India. Dual sim handset market has grown up in India exponentially.

This has made the company to come up with is a full QWERTY handset with a decent spec sheet. The dual sim phone is expected to attract the Indian consumers.

So far as the features of the phone are concerned, it has a 2.2 inch, 64K screen that displays at QVGA resolutions. It is powered with a 208 Mhz processor.

On Tuesday, Venus Remedies said that it is going to launch a new pain killer in India. The drug would be once-in-a-day dose, which will be injected inside a patient's body.

Name of the medicine is Aceclofenac OD and it is the first of its kind painkiller in the market.

The pharmaceutical company took this step after it managed to get a patent for the drug from the Indian authorities.

Venus plans to hit the market by the end of 2010 and aims at grabbing a market share of 10 per cent in the painkiller segment.