Is snowing man , hallelujah :D. Since few weeks Mother Nature has been wearing its beautiful white dress. Everyone seems to be happy and laughing , kids who are enjoying their vacations , are playing down the streets , some of them are throwing snowballs at each other while the others are trying to make a huge snowman that looks more like an ugly fat guy than a snowman.
Everyone seems to be enjoying his time , of course except me who had to pick up the car and go bring some food for the kids from a near shop , but this simple task that may look very easy to be achieved in normal days , is a real feat when it’s snowing, it can even kill you .
And what makes it even more difficult is the fact that my jeep doesn’t have snow grips , ( in fact I used to have them but god only knows where I put them or to whom I lent them) .
But as I couldn’t  stay blocked at home until someone brings them back , I had to act and find a solution , and the solution was only few clicks away , as snow grips are car accessories , the only thing I needed to do is to search on Google for the words jeep accessories , and I found all what I was looking for ,and for a very attractive price.
Now at least I can move and go where ever I want with my jeep , and be sure that my car won’t skid due to the snow .and it’s also a great investment as I’ll be able to use them for many years .
The object is measuring only four inches but everyone is talking about it. The Bloom Box is a small cube that would be capable of producing electricity for a house via an electro-chemical reaction between oxygen and fuel (natural gas, biogas …). after eight long years of conception the start-up Bloom Energy came up with silicon box that differs from conventional fuel cell with its “solid oxide” technology. A Specificity that allows it to avoid the use of expensive materials -- such as platinum -- and makes it accessible to everyone.
right now the technology of Bloom Energy produces with the same quantity of carbon approximately twice as much electricity as a conventional thermal power plant. the difference of emission is around 20% for the most modern plants. Better still, the environmental asset of the Bloom box could be boosted by the use of biogas from the waste dumps , a solution already adopter for example by ebay , one of the first customers of the Californian start-up. Eventually, Bloom Energy could even use solar energy to make the chemical reaction of its fuel cell. But this won’t be possible before 2020.
Compete with wind and solar energy .
Despite these promises, Bloom Box is not immune to criticism. Bloom Energy has announced that the kilowatt-hours from the battery would be between 8 to 10 cents per dollar, less than electricity coal estimated at 11 cents per kilowatt hour on average, but specialist think that this is simply impossible.
Doubts are also on the commercial potential of the Box Bloom. According to some experts, the market for fuel cells for home will be attracting only after 10 years. Until then, the idea of Bloom Energy is therefore proposing large box to share with all residents of a neighborhood. Wal-Mart, Google, Fed-Ex and Coca-Cola already uses this type of “servers” to fulfill their electricity needs. Even if the price of this solution announced between 700 000 and 800 000 dollars, these companies have made thousands of dollars in savings on their electricity bills. Successful experiments have convinced Arnold Schwarzenegger to participate in the presentation of the Bloom Box. The Governor of California also added that this technology will revolutionize the energy industry.
No more big 4x4 that pollute our environment ! To avoid this caricature, the new Touareg is losing 208 kg and will be the first hybrid Volkswagen to be produced .
It is a matter of survival for the specie . More than for its capacity to cross, now the customer chose a 4x4 for its CO2 emissions to avoid penalty . The new VolkswagenTouareg was perfectly understood this fact .
wolsvagen announces a 20% reduction of fuel consumption on its new series and a hybrid version. Powered by a V6 engine with TSI gasoline direct injection, turbocharged by a compressor and developing 333 hp, the Touareg Hybrid is equipped with an architecture that allows it to evolve into an all-electric mode, but benefits from 379 hp .the new touareg reachs a top speed of 240 km / h and achieves the performance of 0 to 100 km / h in 6.5 seconds.
But more than these fulgurant performances that do finally makes sense only on the German motorways, the Touareg Hybrid is illustrated by its consumption reduced by 25% compared to that of a Touareg V6 that disappears from the range in addition to the W12 and V10 TDI. The hybrid version will be completed by launching a V6 3.0 TDI of 240 hp and a V8 4.2 TDI of 340 hp. But let’s face it the Touareg does not worry the Lexus RX. A pioneer in terms of hybrid 4x4, the latter is leading with a low record of 148 grams per kilometer, but in terms of power the RX 450h offers “only” 299 hp and does not have a real wheel drive.
the new Touareg allows crossing. Supplied on its standard version with the differential auto blocking transmission Torsen (4MOTION) and can be completed with a package called Track & Field, which configures the ABS, ESP for a off-road configuration.
The front inherits the spirit initiated by the Golf VI, which has been gradually declined in all new models that have emerged since its introduction .
The interior is luxurious . The design of the dashboard is brilliant and has a huge GPS screen of 6.5 inch. The quality of materials can be felt on your first second on that car . As for modularity, it is worthy of the best minivans with a rear seat that can move about 16 cm and fall back automatically with a push of a button. From its long 4.80 m, the Touareg can accommodate from 580 to 1642 liters of capacity in the trunk.
The new Touareg is equipped with many high-tech equipment. Thus, depending on trim levels, the German SUV is equipped, among others with the system “Lane Assist” to maintain your lane in traffic, “Side Assist” to warn you the presence of a vehicle in a blind spot.
The manufacturer Nokia, the first global seller of mobile phones, announced the free availability for its Smartphones of its navigation system and pedestrian traffic “Ovi Maps”. This service is now available for ten Nokia smartphones.
After Google, which recently offered its GPS system on its Droid OS, it’s now the turn for Nokia to offer free navigation services. The Finnish firm, which until now was charging for its mapping systems, has changed its strategy due to the growing number of users of GPS mobile . according to a study made by Nokia, the number of people worldwide using GPS on their cell reached 27 million in late 2009. By providing navigation services, Nokia believes it can potentially increase its user to about 50 million.
Users of Nokia smart phones can now download the new online version of Ovi Maps. It includes features of road and pedestrian navigation with voice guidance in 74 countries, 46 languages, traffic information in over 10 countries, as well as detailed maps covering over 180 countries.
The navigation includes pedestrian shortcuts through parks and pedestrian areas in over 80 cities worldwide and 6000 3D landmarks in over 200 cities to facilitate localization.
The cards can be preloaded on the Internet so the Ovi Cards can be used in offline mode and thus preserve the phone battery and reduce connection costs when traveling abroad.
Free Ovi Maps is available for 10 models of Nokia smart phones, including N97 mini, 5800 XpressMusic, and E72. Other terminals will be added soon
I’ve noticed that the word Stock option is everywhere these days, and I’ve also noticed that when people read this word , they don’t know what it means , this was exactly my situation few days before , but I managed to read some economic books to find what It meant .
And as these books are quite boring I’ve tried to write this article  to give you the explanation in five question of what are stock options :
Let’s learn what are stock options in five questions :
1 –To whom are stock options intended?
Stock options are mainly intended to employees, usually executives of the companies working with this system, as they demand huge salaries that can’t be paid by startups .
2 – How does this work on?
The employee of a company receives a kind of purchase order to acquire the shares later at a price already fixed, sometimes much lower than the actual share price.
3 – Why stock options?
Giving stock option prevents the company from giving big amounts of “cash”.
4 – What is the risk of stock options?
If the price falls below the price set by the option, the employee may waive his option: he earns nothing but loses nothing.
5- What’s good side of stock options
Generally stock options can help their owner make a lot of money and this through  stock option trading , executives of companies such as Google or Microsoft generally prefer to be paid in stock option as they know that the latter gain value easily , buy stock option trading is not as easy as it seems and there are a lot of examples of people who have lost everything .
But of course this doesn’t affect the reliability of stock options as in most of the cases, people who do not make benefits from them are those who do not use options trading mentoring .
Google has officially launched the Nexus One, a new generation of smartphone manufactured by HTC. Following the footsteps of Apple, the Web giant has opened its own shop on Internet and will distribute itself the phone, equipped with its Android operating system. In competition with the iPhone, the Nexus One will also face other players (BlackBerry, Nokia, Palm, etc..). Here are the specifications of the new Google phone.
- Screen: a 3.7 WVGA AMOLED screen a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, larger and thinner than the iPhone 3GS (3.5″, 320 x 480 pixels)
- Dimensions: 119 mm x 59.8 mm x 11.5 mm, very close to the iPhone 3GS (115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3)
- Weight: 130 grams, equivalent to the iPhone (135 g)
- Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon (TM) 3G QSD8250 1 GHz, twice the power of the iPhone 3GS
- Camera: 5 megapixel camera with flash, autofocus and localization tools
- Video : available, but without an editing software unlike the iPhone 3GS but will be available soon.
- Shop Applications: Android Store (about 20,000 applications available), the App Store Apple has more than 100,000 applications
- Ports: jack 3.5mm headphones with four contacts for voice and remote control
- Battery: removable 1400 mAh, unlike the iPhone and its battery fixed
- Announced autonomy: 250 hours on standby mode, equivalent to the iPhone 3GS, which does not actually take more than one day.
- Trackball: LED notification light, alerting the arrival of new emails and instant messages and SMS
According to Google, the Nexus One introduces new applications and features. Here is the information provided by the Web giant:
Entering text without typing
Keyboard Voice-Activated for all text boxes: you can now just dictate text messages, instant, electronic, Twitter and Facebook.
Tell your phone what to do
To search on Google, call your contacts or instructions on the route to follow, just ask your phone.
A further step in personalization
The dynamic and interactive wallpaper react to touch. New widgets and five home screens let you further customize your device.
Photos and video quality
The 5 megapixel camera includes an LED flash, an autofocus, zoom, white balance and color effects. Watch your pictures and your Picasa albums in the new 3D gallery. Record high definition MPEG4 video, then upload them to YouTube with one click.
it’s perfectly clear that google is giving some serious trouble the apple’s iphone, but only customers will give the answer whether or not nexus one is the real iphone killer.
Google has finally unveiled its future operating system, OS chrome. Largely inspired by its Web browser Chrome, the software is somewhat minimalist. Its goal? provide a lightweight, easy and free operating system to Netbooks, an OS that starts in a wink. Anders Sandholm, Google Chrome OS product manager is “very excited” by this product. But upon closer inspection, innovation is perhaps not so gigantic.
Chrome OS is simply the Chrome browser, but that would not need Windows to run. Derived from Linux, it starts in few seconds: it is an enhanced browser, which allows (only) to navigate. What to do with such a system? Using online services from Google, of course!
Chrome OS is a completely new way to use a computer. No need to worry about updates and management of installed programs ; because it is impossible to install other applications. The browser must be sufficient to perform all common tasks, at least those that run on a netbook: navigation, office, etc..
An OS carved by Google for Google
The strategy of the web giant, is since several years , to make all the content of its users accessible and modifiable from Internet. The e-mail, and office documents or photos are no longer stored on the user’s computer, they are stored online on Google Docs, Picasa, or Gmail. No need for a special software such as Word or Excel: Google can do everything via the browser. A Guidance that Microsoft has also followed on its Office Web Apps on Office 2010. The idea is innovative, but the connections do not always follow, and those living in the countryside or who travel frequently can’t be connected whenever they leave their homes.
It’s by proposing an operating system that is no more than a browser that Google hopes to rally the users to its online services. An unstoppable logic, which will also allow Google to increase its presence in the browser market, where Chrome barely move against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
The system is very specific, it can be installed only on computers for which it will be developed. It remains to be seen whether the netbook buyers prefer to pay a Windows license to install their own software, or opt for the free Google Chrome OS, but know that they will be locked into a browser. Or Alternatively, use a version of Linux which offers many advantages: free, open source, with potentially tens of thousands of software (also free).
Who doesn’t have a Facebook account ??? everyone has one .
Facebook has in the last few years been able to provide to its users , a new way to discover internet , to make new friends and to share our lives.
But recently the whole world was just saying that facebook was not protecting the data of its users.
The 350 million Facebook members can now claim to have a better protected privacy.
While Facebook has just taken the helm of 350 million members, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the imminent arrival of new tools to better protect your privacy.
In an open letter to its users posted on the famous community site, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO, says that Facebook now gathers more than 350 million members.
The milestone of 300 million members has been reached in September 2009.
In addition, Facebook is thinking about improving the protection and management of the personal data of its users. In this view, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the regional networks would soon be removed.
Since the creation of Facebook, these regional networks allow students to whom the network was initially intended to easily find colleagues by their names or by the mane of their school which they belong to , their university or city of residence. The main Reason behind this decision: these types of networks have become so big that they have no reason to exist, and these networks are also not protecting the confidential information of members.
It’s also the why Facebook is strengthening its rules of privacy on the social network by defining new parameters of use. The community site will deal with new filters giving to the member a way of defining the access rules to each element of their profile.
Facebook members can use some new tools on their page, some very easy to use tools “ as Mark Zuckerberg said” , which will restrict or open wider the access to different parts of their profile to specific users by adjusting the level of confidentiality.
For example, information about career will be open only to friends, while the photo albums can be accessed by all the network.
Facebook hopes to keep the confidence of its members at a time where social networking is headed for profitability. Facebook thinks about making a turnover of around 500 million dollars this year.
Everyone is talking about it, and everyone wants to know more about it , that’s why i’ve decided to write a bit about it so you can have a little idea about the new baby of the swedish phone manufacturer
it’s first at the MWC 2009 that Nokia had announced the its new flagship phone  the N97, so what so special about this phone you may ask ? the answer is :
The new Nokia N97 is equipped with the 3G/3G + technology , a 3.5 ”  16 / 9  touch screen with a 640 Ă— 360 and 16 million colors resolution  , a QWERTY and sliding keyboard, 32GB of internal memory, a Memory microSD / SDHC port, a 5 Megapixel camera Carl Zeiss optics with a LED flash, video recording in DVD quality (VGA 30fps), a compatible GPS A-GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi and a battery that can last up to 5 hours in communication , 4.5 hours displaying video, 1.5 day listening to music or 400h on standby mode , all this in a dimension of 117.2 Ă— 55.3 Ă— 15.9 mm for 150g.
The Nokia N97 manufacturing quality is exemplary and unmatched , once you take the phone on your hands you notice On the left side of the phone the  lock / unlock button and the Universal USB in addition to the also speakers ,On the right side are the volume buttons and the shutter of the camera. On the upper side is the power button (which can also be used to choose the Mode as on all Nokia (General, Meeting, etc …) and a 3.5 mm music jack .
Concerning its size and weight, it is not the smallest or lightest, but in a pocket, it doesn’t feel heavier or larger than a iPhone, and its size allows a good grip in hand.
In terms of connectivity , you will for sure appreciate the mini-USB ,the TV output and the 3.5 mm jack .  And in terms of wireless connection , this phone is equipped with the latest technologies like the  3G +, Bluetooth , WiFi and GPS-compatible A-GPS.Regarding GPS localisation , no problem and no differences with the previous Nokias, the signal is quickly recovered, whether in the nokia’s applications or Google Maps. , the 32GB internal memory are very sufficient , but in case you find it not enough,  you can add more memory via the memory microSD / SDHC
the operating system of the nokia N97 is the the new Symbian S50 5th Edition which is the same  as the system equipping the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music and Nokia E75.
On the homepage of the N97 nokia has proposed widgets that are a little more sexy than what we were used to on the other versions , you can configure the widgets of your choice, and retrieve new ones from OVI Store which  is Nokia’s answer to Apple’s AppStore but that is a bit empty for the moment.
I’ve searched through youtube and found an interesting video of the N97 , i invite you all to watch it so you can have an idea about it :
Well, I already know what you think about it , it looks simply amazing , this is exactly what I think too .
Fifty-five years after the launch of the legendary 300 SL, Mercedes has decided to revive the myth of the gull-wing doors with a new sport coupe. Named AMG SLS but already called Gullwing as reference to its famous doors.
Stung by the limited success of the SLR developed in partnership with McLaren, Mercedes has given the study of the this project to its subsidiary AMG sport based in Affalterbach.
Unlike the Audi R8 and Porsche 911 Turbo that it is actually targeting, the SLS AMG remains faithful to the concept of the ancient sport car: long wheelbase, huge hood, large front central engine and occupants sitting on the rear wheels.
Completely developed by AMG, the SLS is a true showcase of the expertise of the brand. The engineers have for a transaxle architecture and a gearbox rejected at the rear to ensure excellent weight distribution (48% front, 52% rear). Desired to be an ultra sportive car , one of the main challenge of the designers of this new coupe has been to hunt extra pounds.
The use for the first time of an aluminum frame space by Mercedes has lowered the weight of the chassis to 241 kilos. The double wishbone suspensions are also in aluminum. the carbon fiber transmission shaft connecting the transmission to the engine weighs only 4 kilos. Finally, the SLS AMG weights only 1 620 kilos on the scales.
To use a chassis built for the competition, AMG has completely renewed its latest 6 208 cm3 V8 atmospheric. Now it delivers up to 571 hp at 6 800 rpm and 650 Nm of torque at 4 750 rpm, which means 46 hp more than the SL 63 AMG. Another first, this V8 is mated to a dual clutch 7 gears gearbox designed in partnership with Getrag.
It has four modes: comfort, sport, sport + and manual. Theses performance will allow the craft to 315 km / h on race track and go from 0 to 100 km / h in just 3.8 seconds.
With a pattern similar to the SLR (4.64 x 1.93 x 1.25), but for a more reasonable price, the SLS AMG will for sure seduce a lot of fans of the German made sport cars .
