Bugatti launched in India for a price of 16 crores - India's most expensive car

The most expensive car in India, priced at Rs. 16 crore (160 million rupees) was launched by Volkswagen Group company Bugatti Automobiles. It’s marvelous quality sports car 'Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport', hit the Indian Roads.

"Bugatti has been doing well in America, Europe and the Middle East. Now we see India as an emerging market for us, hence we have decided to bring the car to India," Bugatti Automobiles Sales Market Manager (Middle East, Europe and India) Guy Caquelin told reporters here.

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport, priced at Rs 16 crore onwards, will be distributed by the company's Indian dealer Exclusive Motors. So far, the most expensive cars in India have been the Rolls Royce Phantom and the Maybach, which are priced around Rs 5 crore.

"The price of the car will be subject to foreign exchange fluctuation and the levels of customization that a buyer demands," Exclusive

Motors Managing Director Satya Bagla said. He, however, said that with the Indian luxury car market growing at about 25 per cent there is an opportunity for such expensive cars. "The Bugatti Veyron is four times more expensive than what's being sold in the India. So we are currently testing the customer response," Bagla said, when asked if there has been any order for the car.

He said delivery would take about 6-8 months from the date of order.

Caquelin said Bugatti is aiming between 60 and 80 units of the car to be sold across the globe this year and there have been queries from 3 to 4 Indians globally.

The company claims that the Bugatti Veyron is also the fastest car on production that is allowed to drive on normal roads in the world with a top speed of 407 km/hour with an acceleration of 0-100km/hour in 2.7 seconds.

The car, which uses components made of special materials like titanium, carbon fibre and magnesium is powered by an 8 litre engine with 16 cylinders and is assembled by hand at the company's hand headquarters Molsheim in France.

RIM BLACKBERRY: How Push Mail Works?

Research in Motion's (RIM) "Push Mail" for its Blackberry phones keeps its customers constantly in sync with their mailboxes. The Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) encrypts incoming mail and pushes it on to the handheld device through the mobile telephony network. Therefore, the customer does not need to "poll" the server for any new mail by checking the server periodically.

The encryption is very powerful enough to ensure the mail cannot be read by other parties. The company already provides access to voice calls, SMS and internet access. How Blackberry Push Mail Works can be understood from below points.

If anyone sends email to your mail address, it arrives to your desktop PC.

Blackberry Enterprise Server Compresses, encrypts and forwards the message to handheld device via the internet and wireless network.

Your handheld device receives decrypts and decompresses the email. You can respond to email using the keyboard on the Blackberry handheld.

PaisaGate - Expense Tracking Solution Through Mobile Phone

As the world shrinks into your handheld device, the mobile phone is becoming very increasingly popular for most of us. Yet one more application developed by Chennai based Flexscient Technologies called PaisaGate which keeps track of our daily spending through short text messages.

PaisaGate is a money management service that helps users with budget planning and expense tracking using SMS, mobile application or online interfaces. Users get daily updates on expenses and a consolidated expense report at the end of the month. The PaisaGate expenditure tracking solution has been designed with the large mobile subscriber base in India that still uses ‘basic' mobile phones.

Ideally, any mobile phone that supports Java can use the service. The first task the used have to do is to download PaisaGate application on to the phone from the website: www.flexscient.com. If your phone has no GPRS, it can be blue-toothed, or transferred via cable on to the phone from a desktop or laptop.

For a case in point, if a user types in petrol 80, indicating the amount spent on petrol during the day and sends via SMS to the server, these expense inputs are automatically categorized by the software into different expense heads and a consolidated report is sent to the users every night at the end of the month.

Standard charges are applicable to users for SMS by their mobile phone service provider, when sending SMS to the service. This service is offered in three different subscription packages — Personal, Group and Professional. The Group and Professional packages enable a group of members (e.g. a team, household, small business) to track their expenses in a centralized account.

PaisaGate is available for subscription for 6 months for a fee of around Rs. 150. Users and try for a one month free by registering with this linkhttp://www.paisagate.com/login.htm?task=register