SKODA’S SMALL CARS IN INDIA

Czech Automobiles giant Skoda is planning to launch five e new launches in India. The launching also involves its global small car that will be debut next year I.e. 2009.Thomas Skoda who is the board member of Skoda Auto India, said “We will launch a compact car in the Rs 3 Lakh to Rs. 5 Lakh segment, below our existing small car segments.”

 For Skoda, India will be a key focus market. In the next 5 years it plans to sell 100,000 units, up from the current figures of 13,000 units.   

MARUTI SWIFT RECORD BREAK SUCCESS…

India’s number one carmaker Maruti Suzuki’s success with Swift has sold two lakh units. In this way this car has become one of the fastest selling models in India since its three years of launch. The car was launched in 2005.

BT TO SEEK HP

British Telecom is in a talk to sell its British data centres to Hewlett-Packard for $1.5 billion in a deal that will significantly deepen its tiers with the American computer giant. The company is concentrating its global services division on simplifying networks for corporate customers.

RANBAXY DRUG DEAL WITH MERCK

Ranbaxy has signed a deal with the US based Merck for dru discovery and clinical development in aniti-infective drugs.

            The two big companies willwork togetherto develop clinically validated anti-bacterial dn anti-fungal drug candidates. Ranbaxy will carry out developments in the discovery and clinical through Phase IIa clinical trials while Merck will conduct development and commercialization of drug candidates after that. The collaboration will begin with an initial term of five years and can be extended further with mutual

Airtel ties up with Apple for iphone

 India’s largest company in telecommunication has announced a tie-up With US based Apple Inc to bring the popular GSM-based iphone in the country.

            According to reliable sources, Airtel may start offering iphones around Diwali festival to its over 65 million GSM-based subscribers. The telco said in a statement, “ Bharti Airtel has signed a deal with Apple to bring the iphone to India later this year”.

            The ties-up between the duo will be beneficial for the consumers who can now avail the products from legal channels and avoid opting for the grey market.

TECHNOLOGY TO BUY POWER FROM PLANT

The news is of India’s NRI City Gurgaon. Meeting 75% of Gurgaon’s need of electricity has become and headache of the Haryana Electricity authorities. To meet up this many bulk consumers in gurgaon are now seeking a new option of buying electricity direct from plants through power traders.

            According to calculations, daily business in the sector could grow to Rs 2 crore in just Gurgaon and Faridabad. So seeing this upcoming business in the future these units are seeking such direct deals at the behest of Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam.

            The fees charged will also be very nominal for this. Apart from the industrial units and factories, apartments and societies can also avail this facility of power consumption directly form the plant. But for this their power consumption should be more than 1 MW. Any power plant with surplus electricity can be directly tapped by societies and RWA’s.

Mobile Phones

Mobile Phones:

Mobile phone is an electronic device used for mobile communication. It is also called by other name slike wirelss, cellphones etc. Its used has widely increased all over the world. The mobile phone has made our life very easy as we can reach to any one at an instance. Now a days mobile phones are coming with many features like text message, camera, radio etc. Some mobile phones are even built with GPS and GSM technology also.

Few functions of mobile phones are

·   Store contact information

·   To do task risk

·   Alarm Clock

·   Calculator

·   Download and internet browsing facility

·   In built games and online games(if support internet)

·   Text messaging facility

These are few of the functions that a mobile phone can have.

  

How does a mobile phone work?

Modern Technology-Boon or Curse

What do you think about Modern Technology? Do you think it’s good or bad? Do you think it has made our life more convenient and easy or do you think it has made our life more complicated?

  Everyone will give you different definition for Modern Technology. For someone it’s a boom and for someone it’s a curse.

 

Technology is a boom when it is good for mankind. When it helps us to save our time and increase our efficiency then it’s a good thing. For example Cooking in a microwave helps us to save our time and retain the quality of the food. This way it’s a good thing.  Life more difficult and more dangerous? But when it’s harmful for the mankind then it’s a bad thing or a curse. Like the pollution, noise, crime etc. cause by the technology is a bad thing.

So decision should be made by thorough analysis whether you want to go with the technology or not.

Modern Technology

What is Technology?

Technology can not be defined in a single word. Technology can be defined as Objects, Activities, Process, and Knowledge and likewise in other ways also. In a broader sense technology can be defined by the process which human beings use and modify as per their requirements.  Since beginning human has been using this technology in his lifetime activities. It is this technology mainly which shows how improvement has man made from his past.

 

 

 Nature of Technology.

 

Science and Technology are in relation with each other. Technology can be used as per one’s requirement. It involves designing, making also. Technology is often associated with values. These values can be the ethical also for rightness or wrongness of anything. Technology is highly shaped by the society. This is because society is made up of humans and its humans whose choice changes with time. This give rise to new technology. When ever there is a change a technology is formed.

 

 

Technology in Modern Society

 

If we do comparison between the present technology and the old technology that man used to have in his past then we would definitely find many differences. In very older time mainly stones were used as tools but with time the needs of humans has changed and he has gone far away of his stone age. Fridge, Television, Space Satellites, Rockets, etc all are modern form of Technology. They have a very impact on the society. Life has become very comfortable with their use. We are just a switch away from any thing. We can cover a long distance of many kilometers within a no time. So life has become easy we can say

 

 

Benefits of Technology

Benefits of technology can be seen from the fact that we are saving our time in everything. We can cook our food fast in Microwave, store surplus and perishable foods in the fridge, get cool air from Air Conditioners, and Cover long distances in Vehicles. With the help of technology we can know well in advance about the metrological news also. We know about our space and outside space with the help of technology only. We can play songs, save our work on devices like, laptops, ipods, computers, etc. We can talk endlessly on mobile phones. So there are many benefits of Technology.

 

Disadvantages of Technology

Like benefits technology has certain disadvantages also. Like Nuclear fuel technology can be used in power plants for energy generation but same nuclear fuel can be proved dreadful and life threatening when used in the nuclear bombs. Likely the chlorofluorocarbons used in the Air-conditioning and Refrigeration are depleting ozone layer. The increase in the number of cars on the roads is misbalancing the atmosphere by releasing more harmful gases. Deforestation for factories, mines, buildings etc are causing biological imbalance. Similarly there are many ways in which the technology is affecting our lives