Banking on its small car to be launched early next year, Ford India is targeting over three-fold increase in its sales to over 1,00,000 units per annum. Ford’s small car will compete with the likes of Maruti Wagon R and Hyundai Santro. The small car is likely to come in both petrol and diesel versions. Read on» » » »
Looking to create a big “splash” in the super hatch segment, car market leader Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL) unveiled its second offering in the segment on Friday — the Ritz. Perhaps ironically, the new car faces the toughest competition from its own sibling, the Swift, which has a 75 per cent marketshare in the segment. Read on» » » »
Inflation fell to an all-time low of 0.44 per cent with analysts expecting it to turn negative in the next couple of weeks. But this does not mean that prices of goods have begun to fall sharply. Read on» » » »
It always gives me a high whenever I tell a slice-of- life story. When one is dealing with factual aspects, it is absolutely necessary that I research so that my audience does not feel cheated by the lack of authenticity.
All my films, right from the days of Chandni Bar, have always been researched and lived with. Read on» » » »
India having broken its nuclear shackles, the country is now racing to reach the moon. This will make India the sixth country in the world to attempt a mission to the moon. The country’s maiden spacecraft to the moon, Chandrayaan 1, was accommodated atop our workhorse rocket, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), and the journey began on the morning of October 22 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.
Chandrayaan 1 is a Maruti 800-sized unmanned satellite that will orbit the moon for two years Read on» » » »
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| Interstellar Boundary Explorer satellite Image: NASA |
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) to map of the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space will be launched on a Pegasus XL rocket. The two year mission, costing US$165 million, will study the region in space where the solar wind from the sun suddenly slows down as it reaches the thin, cold gas of interstellar space. This region, called the heliospheric boundary of the solar system, helps to deflect most of the potentially life-threatening forms of radiation coming from elsewhere in our galaxy.
IBEX will ride Pegasus to around 200 kilometres from earth, before boosting itself into its final earth orbit 322,000 kilometres away. The probe will capture energetic neutral atoms (ENAs), which are formed when positive ions in the solar wind hit neutral atoms of interstellar material and rip out electrons from them. IBEX-Lo and -Hi detectors will collect data on the ENAs to create a three-dimensional map of the heliosphere. Read on» » » »
It’s finally here. Apple Inc’s iconic iPhone debuted in India at the stroke of midnight on Friday to three lakh pre-bookings. Over 10,000 of these bookings were in Mumbai, said officials of service providers Bharti Airtel and Vodafone. This, despite it costing Rs 31,000 and Rs 36,000 (for its 8 GB and 16 GB models respectively), over three times its price in the US and Europe. Read on» » » »
After the launch of Intel Atom for low-price PCs during the 2008 COMPUTEX Taipei, Intel globally unveiled the Centrino 2 Processor Technology (formerly codenamed “Montevina”) products for laptops recently. Read on» » » »
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| In the lower left corner of the left image, a group of lumps is visible. In the right image, the lumps have disappeared, similar to the process of evaporation. Image: NASA/JPL |
For the first time ever, NASA has confirmed the presence of water ice on Mars. The Phoenix lander which landed on Mars on May 25, has confirmed to scientists that the white substance it found while digging a trench on June 15, is water ice.
“It is with great pride and a lot of joy that I announce today that we have found proof that this hard bright material is really water ice and not some other substance,” said Peter Smith, the primary investigator for Phoenix, at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
The chunks were left at the bottom of a trench informally called “Dodo-Goldilocks” when Phoenix’s Robotic Arm enlarged that trench on June 15, during the 20th Martian day, or sol, since landing. Several were gone when Phoenix looked at the trench days later. Though the chunks were visible on June 16, when Phoenix looked at the trench again on June 19, some of the material appeared to have evaporated, or melted.
“This tells us we’ve got water ice within reach of the arm, which means we can continue this investigation with the tools we brought with us,” said primary investigator for Phoenix’s stereo imager, Mark Lemmon. Read on» » » »
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Nearly 20,000 websites have been attacked by unknown hackers using a technique known as an SQL injection. The hackers have inserted code to install malware onto visitors’ computers. The code exploits a newly-discovered weakness in Adobe Flash Player, a very common web-browser plugin. The attacks prompted an investigation by the Taiwanese information security industry into the source of these attacks. Read on» » » »
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