HTC Butterfly: India's most expensive android phone is here..!

HTC has launched new android smartphone Butterfly in Indian market at price Rs. 45,900. With this price tag it becomes the most expensive android phone available in Indian market. Its above the Samsung Galaxy S III, Nokia 920 and Apple iPhone 5's base model. 

HTC Butterfly which is known as Droid DNA in the US, features a 5-inch Super LCD3 screen. This display has pixel density of 441ppi, the highest in any phone currently available in the market, and supports full HD videos (shot at 1920x1080p resolution). This smartphone comes with Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), layered with HTC Sense UI, out-of-the-box and can be upgraded to Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean).

The upcoming Butterfly is powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core processor with 2GB RAM. It will have 16GB in built memory and will be expanded upto 32 GB using microSD card . Connectivity options in the device include 2G, 3G, Wi-Fi, NFC, and Bluetooth 4.0. No confirmation provided by company about it's support for 4G LTE. HTC Butterfly will sport an 8MP autofocus snapper with LED flash on the back and 2.1MP camera in the front.

Toyota wins back "World's top auto sales" Trophy from GM.

Toyota Motor Corporation, Japanese auto giant announced its export, domestic sales and production figures. It's Global vehicle sales for the year 2012 stood at 9.749 Million units. And with this figure they have defeated the world leader GM (General Motors) .

General Motors had been the top-selling auto giant for more than seven decades before losing the top position to Toyota in year 2008, however GM regained the crown in 2011 as Toyota's production was hurt badly by the earthquake and tsunami in north eastern Japan. While the Volkswagen came at no. 3 position, selling a record 9.1 million vehicles around the world.

2012 Results Global (Toyota, Lexus, Dihatsu, Hino):

• Production in Japan: 4,420,158 (+26.9%)
• Overseas production: 5,489,282 (+25.5%)
• Worldwide production: 9,909,440 (+26.1%)
• Sales in Japan: 2,411,890 (+35.2%)
• Worldwide sales: 9,747,762 (+22.6%) 

Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. and Hino Motors, Ltd are subsidiaries of Toyota.

Interesting facts about car industry...!

There are always strange and interesting facts are involved with every innovation. Same thing applicable to the car industry as well.. Let's check it out some of the interesting facts about cars..

Resource: psd.fanextra.com

• The First Japanese car in the United States was the Honda Accord manufactured in November 1982.
• Chevrolet Impala was one such car that had enjoyed a breaking sales record of more than one million in 1965.


• The first cars used lever instead of steering wheel.


• The first Porsche 911 was introduced in 1964 and generated a power output of 130 bhp.


• An airbag takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate after an accident.


• Ferrari makes a maximum of 14 cars every day.


• The world's longest traffic hold-up was between Paris and Lyon on the French Auto route in 1980.


• The first auto insurance policy was purchased in in 1897 in Westfield, MA.


• Tata breaks the world records by producing the world's cheapest car, Tata Nano.


• Windshield wipers were introduced by a woman named Mary Anderson.


• The first self-propelled car was invented by Nicolas Cugnot in 1769. It was designed with three wheels and an engine in the front along with the boiler. The car was able to run at a speed of 6 km/h. The first self-propelled car was first used by French Army to move cannons.


• Nicolas Cugnot designed another steam-driven vehicle two years later after he introduced the first steam-driven car. The machine ran well but one day it met an accident with a wall and this incident is recorded to be the first motor-accident.


• In the late 18th century, Issac de Rivaz designed several successful steam-powered cars. Then in 1807 he designed the internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen to generate power. He then developed a car using this engine.


• The first practical four-stroke engine was invented by the Otto and Langen Company of Deutz, Germany. Nikolaus Otto was working in a grocery store and one day he read about Lenoir's two-stroke gas-driven internal combustion engine. Otto the started his own workshop supported by Langen in Deutz near Cologne in 1863. There he invented the four-stroke engine in 1876. Later, a German engineer named Gottlieb Daimler carried out much developments in the engine and introduced a practical four-stroke engine in that is still used in various car models.

How to Wish Happy Birthday in Different Languages!

Whether it's your birthday or the birthday of some one close to you, it'll always be an occasion that remains the reservoir of happy memories, lots of laughter and wholesome family fun! Birthday is one of thoseoccasions where the strong emotional bonds, warmth of heartfelt best wishes go beyond the barrier of language and sincere and cordial birthday wish always becomes successful in conveying....

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Research Says: People who multi-task the most worst at it!

According to a study, people who multi-task the most are likely to be teh worst at all of it. It's their illusion while doing multiple tasks at the same time that they are performing good, but it's not true as per the study by  Utah University in Salt Lake City found.

The US professors found the motorists most likely to talk on their mobile phones while driving tend to be 'impulsive, sensation-seeking' individuals who have a heightened risk of having a crash, the 'Daily Mail' reported.

Source: collegecandy.com

Some people like doing two or more things at once because it is stimulating, interesting, challenging and more exciting even if it hurts their overall performance, the findings suggested.

"What's alarming is people who talk on cell phones while driving tend to be the people least able to multi-task well," researcher David Sanbonmatsu said.

"People talking on cell phones while driving are people who probably shouldn't. We showed people who multi-task the most are those who appear to be the least capable of multi-tasking effectively," Sanbonmatsu said.

He gave 310 undergraduate psychology students tests and questionnaires to measure their actual multi-tasking ability, perceived multi-tasking ability and mobile phone use while driving.

They also had to look at their use of a wide array of electronic media and personality traits such as impulsivity and sensation-seeking.

"The people who are most likely to multi-task harbour the illusion they are better than average at it, when in fact they are no better than average - and often worse," study co-author Professor David Strayer said.

Those who scored highest on actual multi-tasking ability tended not to engage in it because they were more able to focus attention on the job at hand.

Their perceived multi-tasking ability was found to be significantly inflated, the study said. In fact, 70 per cent of participants thought they were above average at multi-tasking.

People with high levels of impulsivity and sensation-seeking reported more multi-tasking.

Those who engaged in multi-tasking often do so because they are less able to block out distractions and focus on a singular task - rather than because they have the ability, the study found.

Sanbonmatsu said that the 25 per cent who performed best on multi-tasking ability are the people who are least likely to multi-task and are most likely to do one thing at a time.

The study was published in the journal PLOS ONE.

Brain size of the biggest dinosaurs was as small as a tennis ball.

Recent research have claimed that an advanced member of the largest group of dinosaurs ever on Earth, had a relatively very small brain.

Skull of seventy million years old fossils of the dinosaur Ampelosaurus, discovered in 2007 in Cuenca, Spain was examined by the scientists.

The reptile was a sauropod, long-necked, long-tailed herbivores that were the largest creatures ever to stride the Earth.

More specifically, Ampelosaurus was a kind of sauropod known as a titanosaur, many if not all of which had armorlike scales covering their bodies. Sauropod skulls are typically fragile, and few have survived intact enough for scientists to learn much about their brains.

By scanning the interior of the skull via CT imaging, the researchers developed a 3-D reconstruction of Ampelosaurus' brain, which was not much bigger than a tennis ball, CBS News reported.

"This saurian may have reached 49 feet in length; nonetheless its brain was not in excess of 3 inches,"study researcher Fabien Knoll, a paleontologist at Spain's National Museum of Natural Sciences, said.

The first sauropods appeared about 160 million years before than this fossil. Many years, scientists have wondered how the largest land animals ever lived with such tiny brains.

Their computer model also revealed the ampelosaur had a small inner ear.The findings are published online in the journal PLOS ONE.

Mozilla unveils two Firefox OS phones!

Mozilla, a very well known name in the world on internet browsing unveils two smart phones, named Keon and Peak running on newly developed Mozilla Firefox Mobile OS.

Both handsets are being designed and developed by firm Geeksphone and will be made available in February, 2013.

The Peak will be a  mid-range smartphone and boasts of a 4.3-in qHD IPS display. Have a dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor clocked at 1.2GHz with 512MB of RAM. The Peak also has dual cameras, an 8MP primary one and a 2MP front-facing one. The Peak also has additional features such as microSD card support, WiFi (N) and GPS, light and proximity sensors. The Peak is powered by an 1800mAh battery.

On the other hand, The Keon, is clearly supposed to be a budget device. with a  single-core Snapdragon S1 1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM and a 3MP camera. The Keon sports a 3.5-in HVGA capacitive touchscreen and is powered by a 1580mAh battery. Additional features are the same as on the Peak.

Mozilla has branded these handsets as “developer phones” and they are specifically looking at developers who can use the handsets to develop apps for the Firefox OS. 

World's Largest Solar Telescope!

India is expected to start building the world's largest solar telescope on the icy heights of Ladakh to study the sun's atmosphere and understand the formation of sun-spots and their decay process.

The Rs 300-crore project is expected to come up at either Hanle or Merak, which is very near to the Ladakh's Pangong lake along the Line of Actual Control with China.

Currently, the world's largest solar telescope is the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope with an aperture size of 1.6 metres in Kitt Peak National Observatory at Arizona in the US.

"Fabrication of the National Large Solar Telescope is expected to begin in late 2013," Siraj Hasan, Principal Investigator for the project, told reporters on the sidelines of the 100th Indian Science Congress here.

The telescope, with an aperture size of two meters, is planned to be completed by 2017 and will be the largest such facility in the world at least till 2020 when US is expected to commission its four-meter telescope at Hawaii.

The main objective of the facility would be to study the formation and decay of sun spots, their subsurface structure and Why do they have a penumbra and how is it formed, Hasan said.
Most of the back-end instruments of the telescope would be made in-house and the instrument for night time observations would be developed in collaboration with Hamburg Observatory in Germany.



NLST is expected to be a unique research tool which is likely to attract several talented solar astronomers to the country and provide a superior platform for performing high quality solar research, Hasan said.

Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics is the nodal agency for the project, which also has participation from Indian Space Research Organisation, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, IUCAA, IISc and IISER.

Interesting Facts about the World!

Lets focus on some little known but interesting statistics regarding many of the world’s most famous cities, waterways and nations.

Alaska – More than half the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska.

Amazon – More than 20 percent of the world’s oxygen supply comes from the Amazon rainforest. Also, the Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that more than 100 miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon River is greater than the next 8 largest rivers in the world combined and 3 times the flow of all rivers in the United States.

Antarctica – Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. 90 percent of the world’s ice covers Antarctica. This ice also represents 70 percent of all the fresh water in the world. As strange as it sounds however, Antarctica is essentially a desert. The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches. Although covered with ice, Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.

Brazil – Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.

Canada – Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ‘big village’.

Chicago – Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest population of Polish citizens on Earth.
Detroit – The first paved road anywhere in the United States was Woodward Ave. in Detroit.

Damascus – Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple thousands years before the city of Rome was founded in 753 BC, making Damascus the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.

Istanbul – Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents – Europe and Asia.

Los Angeles – Los Angeles’ full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula.

New York – The term ‘The Big Apple’ was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930’s who used the slang expression ‘apple’ for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the ‘Big’ apple. Also, there are actually more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Ohio – There are no natural lakes within the state of Ohio. Every one is man-made.

Pitcairn Island – The smallest island designated as a sovereign country is Pitcairn Island in Polynesia. It is 1.75 square miles (4.53 square km).
Rome – The first city on Earth to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome in 133 BC. Thanks to the vastness of Rome’s historic empire, there is a city called Rome on every continent.

Siberia – Siberia contains more than 25 percent of the world’s forests.

Sovereign Military Order of Malta – The smallest sovereign country in the world is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area the size of two tennis courts and as of 2001, had a population of 80. It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican is.

Sahara Desert – In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, Algeria, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years. Technically though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic. There has been no rainfall there for an estimated 2 million years.

Spain – Spain means, ‘the land of rabbits’.

St. Paul – St. Paul, Minnesota, was originally called Pig’s Eye after a man named Pierre ‘Pig’s Eye’ Parrant who set up the first business there.

Russia – The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia. It reaches a depth of 12,261 meters, or 7.62 miles. It was drilled for scientific research and revealed a giant deposit of hydrogen gas, so massive that the mud coming from the hole was boiling with it.

United States – The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

Gujarat Tourism to organize third consecutive edition of Gujarat Travel Mart.

Gujarat Tourism has announced the third edition of Gujarat Travel Mart, India's biggest B2B travel event at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar from the 27 – 29 March 2013.

The state of Gujarat over the years has contributed towards being a large part of the India’s ever growing tourism arrival figures, both to within India destinations and overseas. The Inaugural edition of ‘Gujarat Travel Mart’, is set on a B2B platform with over 200 registered Buyers from over 30 countries exploring business opportunities for discerning travel and tourism products, will make the event one of the most sought after travel events in the country.

 

The Hosted buyers will be invited from the following countries: Netherlands, Kingdom of Bahrain, Australia, Canada, France, Greece, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, UAE, UK, USA, South Africa, etc.

Source: http://www.gujarattravelmart.com

 

The event is supported by major travel – trade and hospitality association in India such as ‘Association of Domestic Tour Operators Association of India (ADTOI), Adventure Tour Operators Association of India (ATOAI) and Indian Association of Tour Operators. 

 

EXCLUSIVE GUJARAT PAVILION: Gujarat Incoming

 

Gujarat has been one of India’s biggest tourist attractions with its wide arena of attractions. The exclusive pavilion of Gujarat shall showcase the different facets of Gujarat such as festivals of Gujarat, its beaches, the land of the Mahatma: Mahatma Gandhi oriented tours, Heritage Hotels, Buddhist Trails in Gujarat, wildlife Resorts and National Parks, Medical Tourism, Destination Management Companies, Travel Agents and Tour Operators, Religious Tourism, Handicrafts, Cultural Vistas, etc

Hosted Buyer Program:

 

The Buyer Program at the last year’s edition of ‘Gujarat Travel Mart’ had for the first time in the country a refundable caution deposit system for all buyers to enhance the seriousness of the event. The amount will be refundable on the successful completion of the mandatory seller appointments. Buyer Registration forms are available on www.gujarattravelmart.com or mail at buyer@gujarattravelmart.com

 

The event shall be managed by 'Sphere Travelmedia & Exhibitions Pvt. ltd.,'

 

Gujarat: A Business Profile: The state of Gujarat has been impressive with an achievement of an average annual growth rate of 10.4 % in the last five years, a figure that is higher than that of the "Asian Tigers". Gujarat also contributes to 16% of the industrial production of the country and has also mobilised the highest share (12.7%) of the investments in the country.

 

The economic growth indicators of Gujarat have been impressive with an achievement of an average annual growth rate of 10.4 % in the last five years, a figure that is higher than that of the "Asian Tigers". Gujarat contributes to 16% of the industrial production of the country and has also mobilised the highest share (12.7%) of the investments through lEMs in the country.

 

Ahmedabad:  Forbes lists Ahmedabad as among the world's fastest growing cities included Ahmedabad at number 3 after Chengdu and Chongqing from China. Ahmedabad is the sixth largest metropolitan city in India and largest in Gujarat, with a population of approximately 6.2 million. Ahmedabad has a thriving chemicals and pharmaceuticals industry with a few of the biggest pharmaceutical companies of India located here. The GDP of Ahmedabad was 65 billion USD in 2008 and is the growing state in India at present.

 

EXHIBITOR PROFILE:

 

• National Tourist Organizations, State Tourism Boards & Trade Associations, 

• Transportation: Airlines, Charters, Railways, Ground Transporters, Car Rentals, Shipping, Cruise liners, etc

• Travel Agents & Tour Operators: Travel Agents and Tour Operators, Destination Management Companies, Online Travel Agents, Inbound Tour Operators

• MICE Operators (Meetings, Incentives, Conference& Exhibition Organizers), Convention and Exhibition Centres, 

• Technology Providers: Online Travel Portals, Hotel Reservation Networks, Property Management Systems, etc, 

• Hotels & Resorts 

• Health Tourism: Ayurveda and Holistic Medicine Centres, Health Spas

• Adventure & Eco - Tourism: Adventure and Sports: Aero – Sports, Aqua – Sports, Terrestrial Adventure operators (trekking, mountaineering, jungle – camping, adventure gears, wild life and eco – tourism resorts, Golf Resorts, etc.

• Specialty niche Products such as Luxury Trains, Cruises, etc

 

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Sticking with a job you hate 'may cause health issues’

If you don’t like your job and still you are stick to it can lead you to several health problems, it’s confirmed in resent research.

 “Our study examined whether some forms of commitment to an organization could have detrimental effects, such as emotional exhaustion and, eventually, turnover,” study co-author Alexandra Panaccio from Concordia University in Montreal said.

“It may be that, in the absence of an emotional bond with the organization, commitment based on obligation is experienced as a kind of indebtedness — a loss of autonomy that is emotionally draining over time,” Panaccio said.

Study found that the employees with higher self-esteem were widely affected by this; Researchers based their findings on a study of 260 employees from a variety of industries.

 “When employees stay with their organization because they feel that they have no other options, they are more likely to experience emotional exhaustion,” Panaccio said.

“This feeling, in turn, may lead them to leave the organization,” she said.

Employers, however, can fight these problems by working with their employees.

“The implication is that employers should try to minimize this ‘lack of alternatives’ type of commitment among employees by developing their competencies, thus increasing their feeling of mobility and, paradoxically, contributing to them wanting to stay with the organization,” Panaccio added.

The study has been published in the journal Human Relations.