If you don't eat, sleep and breathe cars, or devour car magazines in minute detail, there's a good chance you don't know all the technological terms that pop up in the media, new car advertising and literature.
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With new models being released all the time, the acronyms can be overwhelming.
With every new model year, it seems, there are new technology and acronyms. Here's a concise list of the terms you're most likely to see and read about in the 2008 literature.
ABS: The most common passive safety system found on cars today is ABS or anti-lock brake system. ABS continuously counts wheel revolutions electronically and when one or more wheels stops moving during a skid, the system quickly applies and releases the brakes on the skidding wheels.
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Nokia To Roll Out 40 New Biodegradable Mobile Phones This Year
May 22, 2008, 3:06 pm
In order to make mobile phones eco-friendly, Nokia has decided to roll out Nokia To Roll Out 40 New Biodegradable Mobile Phones This Yeararound 40 new green mobile phone models in the existing year (200
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The company also plans to make use of biodegradable phone covers and recyclable battery designs, which contain small amounts of potentially toxic materials such as cadmium, lithium, among others.
D Shivakumar, VP and managing director, Nokia India, satted, “We will be using biodegradable phone covers, recyclable battery designs that use less harmful toxic materials and energy efficient accessories for all our forthcoming phones. Already, we have eliminated the use of PVC (polyvinyl chloride) in all our phones.”
In markets like the US, Nokia introduces a pre-addressed, postage-paid envelope in sales packs, which will offer customers a simple means for returning used products for reprocessing without charging any cost to them.
“The consumer simply places the contents in the bag and then puts it in their mailbox. We are evaluating similar refurbishment processes for India, which is the second-largest telecom market,” Mr. Shivakumar added.
Nokia uses biomaterials, such as polylactic acid (PLA) plastics with plant or other biomass-based modifiers that helps in reducing the use of non-renewable materials.
The company also aims to set up the culture of refurbishment or recycling of mobile phone and its components in the Indian market.
Nokia is also investing in green bins across all its priority dealer centers, where the customers can drop their old phones for recycling process.
The company also plans to extend the service across all its centres. Besides this, Nokia also aims to lessen the energy consumed by mobile charger when it is left in a live power socket, by upto 50 percent by 2010.
Previously, it had launched its first eco-friendly phone, the 3110, which is claimed to be more around 65% recyclable.
"The green phones, which we will launch this year, will be introduced across all price ranges," said Shivakumar.
Nokia will also educate customers through its various training and awareness programs on the environmental and recycling issues.
.The company also plans to make use of biodegradable phone covers and recyclable battery designs, which contain small amounts of potentially toxic materials such as cadmium, lithium, among others.
D Shivakumar, VP and managing director, Nokia India, satted, “We will be using biodegradable phone covers, recyclable battery designs that use less harmful toxic materials and energy efficient accessories for all our forthcoming phones. Already, we have eliminated the use of PVC (polyvinyl chloride) in all our phones.”
In markets like the US, Nokia introduces a pre-addressed, postage-paid envelope in sales packs, which will offer customers a simple means for returning used products for reprocessing without charging any cost to them.
“The consumer simply places the contents in the bag and then puts it in their mailbox. We are evaluating similar refurbishment processes for India, which is the second-largest telecom market,” Mr. Shivakumar added.
Nokia uses biomaterials, such as polylactic acid (PLA) plastics with plant or other biomass-based modifiers that helps in reducing the use of non-renewable materials.
The company also aims to set up the culture of refurbishment or recycling of mobile phone and its components in the Indian market.
Nokia is also investing in green bins across all its priority dealer centers, where the customers can drop their old phones for recycling process.
The company also plans to extend the service across all its centres. Besides this, Nokia also aims to lessen the energy consumed by mobile charger when it is left in a live power socket, by upto 50 percent by 2010.
Previously, it had launched its first eco-friendly phone, the 3110, which is claimed to be more around 65% recyclable.
"The green phones, which we will launch this year, will be introduced across all price ranges," said Shivakumar.
Nokia will also educate customers through its various training and awareness programs on the environmental and recycling issues.
Is the IT boom back?
May 22, 2008, 1:04 pm
NEW YORK: Is the Internet boom back? No, but information technology companies have again overtaken the financial industry as the largest sector in the S&P 500 index, Standard & Poor's said.
IT was last the top dog of the index in early 2002 as tech bubble was deflating, according to Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at Standard & Poor's.
At Tuesday's close, IT represented 16.26 per cent of the S&P 500, compared with 16.19 per cent for financials, Silverblatt wrote in a report. It expanded its lead on Wednesday.
At the peak of the boom in March 2000, the IT sector made up 34.51 per cent of the index, Silverblatt said.
This time, the IT sector is not the biggest because of giddy growth, but because it's been hit less hard than the financial sector by the credit crunch and economic weakness.
Financial stocks have retreated 29.11 per cent since their peak on October 9 last year, according to Silverblatt's calculation, while IT companies have lost 8.74 per cent.
"Information Technology stocks didn't go up, the leaders went down," Silverblatt wrote.
The trend continued on Wednesday with the financial sector losing 2.6 per cent and IT retreating 1.9 per cent.
IT was last the top dog of the index in early 2002 as tech bubble was deflating, according to Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at Standard & Poor's.
At Tuesday's close, IT represented 16.26 per cent of the S&P 500, compared with 16.19 per cent for financials, Silverblatt wrote in a report. It expanded its lead on Wednesday.
At the peak of the boom in March 2000, the IT sector made up 34.51 per cent of the index, Silverblatt said.
This time, the IT sector is not the biggest because of giddy growth, but because it's been hit less hard than the financial sector by the credit crunch and economic weakness.
Financial stocks have retreated 29.11 per cent since their peak on October 9 last year, according to Silverblatt's calculation, while IT companies have lost 8.74 per cent.
"Information Technology stocks didn't go up, the leaders went down," Silverblatt wrote.
The trend continued on Wednesday with the financial sector losing 2.6 per cent and IT retreating 1.9 per cent.
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