Fiat has given the Croma a makeover and relaunched it as the Nuova (New) Croma. The company describes the car as " even more dynamic thanks to a number of styling changes introduced by the Fiat Style Centre." The front of the Nuova Croma features original drop-shaped Bravo-style headlights, highlighted by a burnished finish and a new front air inlet and grille with wide links and a Chrome Shadow paint finish. Full Article

Apple''s iPhone goes on sale in the UK and Germany on Friday with thousands expected to snap up the device. The first European handsets were sold at the T-Mobile store in Cologne just after midnight. By contrast Apple fans queuing in poor weather in London will have to wait until Friday evening to get their hands on an iPhone. Full Article

New research has discovered that a large number of expensive luxury cars are being registered as private hire vehicles in London. An investigation by www.cleangreencars.co.uk has discovered that amongst the list of cars you are not likely to see parked under the flashing yellow light of a minicab office are Aston Martins, Bentleys and even Rolls-Royce Phantoms. By paying an £82 application fee and £27 per year licence, owners can avoid paying the £8 per day Congestion Charge. Full Article

A pedigree cat called Cinnamon has made scientific history by becoming the first feline to have its DNA decoded. The domestic cat now joins the select club of mammals whose genome has been deciphered - including dogs, chimps, rats, mice, cows and people. The genome map is expected to shed light on both feline and human disease. Full Article

A project that harnesses the spare processing power of Sony''s PlayStation 3 (PS3) to help understand the cause of diseases has entered the record books. Guinness World Records has recognised folding@home (FAH) as the world''s most powerful distributed computing network. FAH has signed up nearly 700,000 PS3s to examine how the shape of proteins affect diseases such as Alzheimer''s. Full Article

The unique Mercedes-Benz World (MBW) at Brooklands reaches its anniversary next month, and is throwing a party to celebrate. The celebrations take place on Sat 3rd and Sun 4th - and everyone is invited. Visitors to the centre over that weekend will have the opportunity to enter into a prize draw for the chance to win an exhilarating ride in the legendary Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren.As well as the SLR gracing the handling circuits all weekend, MBW will be unveiling the brand new Silver Arrows AMG Display Team. Full Article

Mobile phone provider 3 has launched a new handset that will allow users to make free calls over the internet via telephony service Skype. Users will also be able to use Skype''''''''s instant messaging service, 3 said. But while people using Skype on their computers are able to make cheap global calls to any phone number, this will not be possible via the new 3 handset.Skype has about 246 million registered users worldwide and is one of the firms reshaping the global phone industry. Full Article

Leopard, the latest update of the Apple Mac operating system OS X, goes on sale on Friday. The release ends months of waiting for Mac fans, after Apple pushed back the launch to finish development on its much-hyped iPhone. Early reviews for Leopard have been positive with veteran technology writer Walt Mossberg calling it "evolutionary, not revolutionary". Full Article

Grizzly slasher film Saw IV has topped the US and Canada box office with takings of $32.1m (£15.6m). The newest film in the torture-horror franchise beat family comedy Dan in Real Life, starring Steve Carrell, into a distant second place. Last week''s top film, vampire flick 30 Days of Night, held up for third in the rankings, bringing in $6.7m (£3.3m). Full Article

Boston Red Sox have won the World Series, beating Colorado Rockies 4-3 in the fourth game for a sweep in the best-of-seven series. It is the second World Series win in four seasons for the Red Sox after they beat St Louis in 2004. Before that they had to wait 86 years for a win. Veteran third baseman Mike Lowell hit a solo home run and scored twice for the Sox before becoming a free agent. Full Article

Following the up! concept shown last month at Frankfurt, Volkswagen has revealed the longer wheelbase space up! at the Tokyo Motor Show. The interior features four individual seats, three of which can either be folded or removed completely to allow for up to 1,005 litres of luggage space. Access to the boot area in confined spaces is made easier through the adoption of a pair of side hinging rear doors intersected by a Volkswagen roundel. Full Article

Microsoft has finally agreed to start complying with the European Commission's 2004 anti-monopoly ruling against it, regulators have confirmed. The commission said the US firm would now "comply with its obligations". The software giant had been accused of shutting out rivals from its Windows operating system to gain a larger share of the market for web servers. Microsoft will now take steps to give third party program developers access to Windows' internal workings. Full Article