Chevrolet completes 100 years today

Published by sri on November 3rd, 2011 - in Business

Chevrolet is completing 100 years of its existence worldwide and celebrating its centennial today.

In a short span of little over seven years, Chevrolet has also emerged as the fastest growing vehicle nameplate in India, says a press note.
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President and managing director, GM India, Karl Slym, said in the release, ‘Chevrolet is today GM’s global mainstream brand and the foundation of the company’s business in most major markets across the globe including India. We’ve sold more than 200 million Chevrolets in our first 100 years, and we’ve had a global presence for most of our history– just about everybody, everywhere, has a personal or family story involving a Chevrolet. Today, Chevrolet across the globe is much more than a manufacturer of cars, trucks and crossovers; it’s a global cultural icon embedded in the customers’ most memorable life experiences.’

Globally, Chevrolet is the fourth-largest vehicle brand and is now sold in more than 140 countries across the globe.

A new Chevrolet was sold every 6.65 seconds in the first half of 2011. And last year alone, one in every 1,619 people on the planet bought a Chevrolet vehicle. In 2010, Chevrolet sold a record 4.26 million cars and trucks globally and that pace has accelerated with 2.35 million Chevrolets sold in the first six months in 2011, added the release.

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Nokia launches ‘affordable’ Windows smartphone ‘Asha’ targeting Indian market

Published by sri on November 1st, 2011 - in Uncategorized

London, Oct 27 (ANI): Facing fierce competition to remain the world’s top mobile phone maker, Nokia has launched two new smartphones that are based on Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7.5 operating system.

The Finnish company launched its ‘Lumia 800′ and the ‘Lumia 710′ to mark the beginning of Nokia’s fightback against Apple’s iPhone and rivals using Google’s Android software, the BBC reports.

In a bid to retain its strong hold in the Indian market, the company named its new series of smartphones, which includes four other basic phones, ‘Asha’, a Hindi word meaning hope.

According to the BBC, the phones will be relatively cheap, and will sport features like touch screens, 5 mega pixel cameras, bright screens, 32GB storage for music and long battery life.

Nokia’s new boss, Stephen Elop, had previously warned that the company was stuck on a “burning platform”. Now, he said that the launch marked the “rebirth” of Nokia.

Elop said the phones would blur the boundaries between feature phones and smart phones, bringing the internet “to the next billion people”.

He acknowledged that the Lumia 800 was a design development of a previous Nokia phone, the MeeGo-based N9.

Elop said the “Lumia is the first real Windows phone” and predicted the company would be the leader in “smartphone design and craftsmanship”.

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Car windshields get a tech update

Published by sri on October 10th, 2011 - in Gadgets, Information, sports

Scientists have envisioned a future where all the information you need while driving your car is directly projected on your windscreen thanks to a new device
A navigation system making use of something called “True3D” technology has won the top prize in this year’s European Satellite Navigation Competition in Munich, Germany. The ESNC is an innovation contest that awards the best ideas for applications in satellite navigation. The winner was selected by an international panel of experts. The company that designed the system, Making Virtual Solid (MVS-California), entered its True3D Head Up Display & Navigation System, which won the Galileo Master 2011 grand prize.

The laser-based system paints a virtual ‘cable’ on your windshield – a red, 3D line on screen. The line hovers above the road, and you simply follow it – making navigating in a car as easy as following a train track. It is described as an augmented reality navigational display engine designed to provide non-distracting, translucent location guidance. Images are projected directly onto the car’s windshield.

“Non-distracting” and “translucent” are the strong attributes, as the company touts its system’s use of 3D technology to beam the display across the entire front window of the car. With a less robust readout, that would be no better than a road map over glass, but “True3D” creates a readout that blends into what the driver sees on the road in front of the vehicle.
A luminous, 3D landscape over the real world delivers information that the driver needs without the driver having to look elsewhere than on the road, and it is less distracting.

The display carries virtual road signs to warn of conditions ahead. Attractions such as service stations and hotels are identified by virtual signs floating above them. The images appear to be outside the windshield from a distance of two metres to infinity. They are described as volumetric (“truly 3D”) and they are capable of refreshing at a rate of 60 frames per second.

The designers had pilot-level situational awareness in mind when working on the display design A no-need-to-think-about-it, realtime stream of data was the goal, yet it had to be cost-engineered for the car market, where drivers could see moving, not fixed, images, constantly refreshing. Demos of the technology have shown the ‘cable’ working, but so far, have only been in red.

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Solar storms rising in a big way

Published by sri on September 25th, 2011 - in Health, Information

Washington: After years of quiet, the sun is coming alive with solar storms in a big way. The sun shot off a flare on Thursday afternoon from a region that scientists are calling a “benevolent monster”.

Scientists at the federal Space Weather Prediction Center say that area is the most active part of the sun since 2005. It has dozens of sunspots, including one that is the size of 17 Earths. Sunspots are kinks or knots in the sun’s magnetic field.
“It’s beautiful,” said forecaster Jess Whittington. “It’s still growing. The size is what blows me away.” Thursday’s flare wasn’t aimed at Earth. However, this active region is now slowly turning toward Earth, and scientists say it will be directly facing Earth in about five days. That storm region will only affect Earth if it shoots off flares and they hit our planet, which doesn’t always happen with stormy areas, said prediction center space scientist Joe Kunches.
The region will be facing Earth for about two weeks as it rotates, he said. Solar flares send out bursts of electromagnetic energy that can occasionally disrupt communications and electrical systems. For the past several years, the sun has been at a quiet end of its cycle and only recently has gotten more active. Solar cycles go in 11-year period. This cycle has had fewer storms than usual for this time in its cycle. But that may be changing.

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Birthday present

Published by sri on July 2nd, 2011 - in Information, sports

It’s my cousin brother’s birthday. I have been searching for the best birthday present. I had a discussion with my friends on what to present for a 14 year old. Whoa, the results are amazing. I narrowed my search to baseball gloves. Gloves are a style of garment to assist secure and cover the hand versus cold or heat, bodily injury which can be brought on by friction, abrasions, chemical compounds and diseases and their essential utilization is to aid secure the wearer from issues which their bare hands need to not touch.
Gloves are produced sort various products and are utilized for a amount of functions Gloves are also used whilst people today play distinct varieties of sports like cricket, football, baseball etc. A baseball gloves or mitt as it is normally named is a big glove manufactured of leather which baseball gamers have on to enable them catch and area balls which are getting hit by the batter of the other team Doug Allison was the very first guy to use a baseball glove while in a game when he was a catcher fro the Cincinnati Red Stockings as early as in 1870.
He happened to put on a glove for the reason that of an injury to his left hand. But the first documented proof of any baseball player wearing gloves is Charles Waitt who was a St. Louis outfielder/ 1st batsman who occurred to have on gloves on his hands in 1875. It was viewed as feminine to use gloves but it soon caught up with the baseball players and modified variations began to seem.In the starting baseball gamers utilized to lower off the fingertips from leather glove and wear them so that they had padding for their bare hand. The Baseball Glove began to get modified as time went by and quickly they had a big glove on an individual hand to aid them catch the ball in the webbing of the glove and the other hand to guide preserve the ball intact. A baseball player who is suitable handed will put on a glove on his left hand though a left handed baseball player will do vice versa.
The batter tends to hit the ball with excessive force and this can be pretty harmful and dangerous to the hand of the catcher if he is not sporting a perfectly padded glove on his hand when he is hoping to catch the ball.If you are considering buying Baseball Gloves for your buddies or family it is very best to go to the zephyrsports which is the best place to order online.

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