New Ford Figo car production capacity is up to 200,000 units annually – doubling vehicle production at the facility. The new Ford Figo will be equipped with a standard 1.2L petrol engine developed exclusively for the India market. Four cylinder Diesel and Petrol engines in varying displacements up to 1.6 litres also will be produced for export at the Chennai facility.

DISPLAX launches a new large-format Multi-touch ‘Skin’ that Transforms Surfaces into Interactive Screens. The DISPLAX Multitouch Technology has been developed based on a transparent thinner-than-paper polymer film. When applied to glass, plastic or wood, the surface becomes interactive.

India’s major telecom players Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices launches SMS-based push e-mail service in alliance with iseemedia. It offers access to customers their Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo emails on any type of handset via SMS.

Mahindra & Mahindra launches World’s first mini-truck ‘Maxximo’ with 2-cylinder C2 CRDe engine priced at Rs 2.79 lakh. Maxximo has a large loading area of 3.2 sq mt and 850 kg payload carrying capacity and Maxximo will gives a fuel efficiency of 20 kmpl.

Qatar Airways has expanded its South East Asia operation. The airline’s flights from Jakarta to Doha have been de-linked from Singapore and the airline now operates a dedicated non-stop service between the Indonesian and Qatari capital cities. Flights from Singapore, Bali and selected services from Kuala Lumpur have been upgraded to aircraft from the airline’s growing Boeing 777 fleet.