by Paul Joseph
September 23, 2011
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Nissan launched the Nissan Sunny sedan with the petrol engine on Tuesday. After checking the sales ratio between the petrol and diesel cars , which earlier stood to be 45:55 has now reached to 20:80; Nissan learnt this trend in India. The corporate VP of Nissan for Middle East and India has engaged the engineers to get a move on the requirements for an early launch of the Nissan Sunny diesel variant by the end of the current fiscal year. Nissan, the Japanese automobile brand is set to the launch the diesel variation as soon as possible. Dinesh Jain of Hover Automotive Ltd, a Nissan dealer in the country has stated that Nissan predicts to bring the diesel variant of the Nissan Sunny as early as possible against the usual trend adopted by any automobile brand to launch a new variant with a gap of at least nine months. See More Nissan Sunny Pictures Read More on Nissan Sunny There has been repeated revision the petrol prices by the OMCs to bring parity with the international crude oil price subsequent to decontrolling the petrol price in last June. The current difference in the diesel and the petrol price now stands to be Rs 26 following the hike in petrol price by Rs 3.14. This has prompted the automobile makers to increase their production of diesel cars to launch more diesel cars also at the same time placing the petrol car prices more competitively. To tap this, the Toyota Motors Corp had recently launched the diesel variants of Toyota Etios sedan and Toyota Etios Liva hatch in response to a tepid reaction received by their petrol variants in the market. Honda Siel cars has offered good discounts on their petrol model cars including on Honda City in order to overcome the demand for the diesel alternatives. See More Nissan Sunny Pictures Read More on Nissan Sunny Nevertheless, the market experts consider that the consumer’s partiality towards the diesel cars is not lasting and the moment that the difference between the diesel and petrol prices is reduced, the change in the market dynamics in bound to happen. For this reason, the Japanese auto manufacturers like Nissan and Suzuki are most probable to delay their investments in the diesel technology and would rather look for purchasing the technology from the European manufacturers like for example the Fiat . The sedan is likely to compete against the rivals Toyota Etios sedan, Mahindra Verito and Maruti Swift Dzire with Nissan Sunny price of Rs 5.78 –Rs 7.78 lakhs. The Japanese manufacturer expects to sell around 40,000 units by the end of this fiscal year.
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by Paul Joseph
September 14, 2011
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Love it or hate it, the dominant PC Operating System has always been and may always be Windows. Windows 7 was definitely a bigger success than Vista, and finally made people leave XP, we now have Windows 8 to look forward to. We last reported Microsoft previewing Windows 8, at that time thought to be its tablet OS , back in June. Last night at a Developer’s BUILD Conference, Microsoft released their latest test build of Windows 8, the code name for Microsoft’s next OS. Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division at Microsoft, in his keynote address to the thousands of developers, said , “ We reimagined Windows, from the chipset to the user experience, Windows 8 brings a new range of capabilities without compromise .” Here are some of the upgrades and improvements of Windows 8: Windows 8 will be for desktops, laptops, netbooks, tablet PCs, servers and media centers. It will finally have support for ARM microprocessors in addition to Intel and AMD. There will be an extensively redesigned Ribbon User Interface to suit touchscreen input better, in addition to keyboard and mouse. This Ribbon UI will be based on their Windows Phone 7 User Interface. Live Application Tiles with constantly updating information and a new Home Screen, Start Menu. New lockscreen showing notifications, date and time with customizable backgrounds. Internet Explorer 10 was shown, with fullscreen support and multitouch gestures. Though it is an upgrade, Windows 8 will use less RAM and CPU resources than Windows Vista and 7. We find this impressive as other companies like Apple exclude older devices in updates instead of including more. Their is a Reset option to remove all junk files that make your computer slower. It is said to make your PC feel fresh in under 10 minutes without losing data or programs in the process. According to Microsoft VP Christoper Ham, Windows 8 has a whole new developer platform, based on Javascript and HTML5. They also demoed a Snap function to display apps side by side, similar to Win7′s. It will by default be at an Aspect Ratio of 16:9 Resolution, with support for different resolutions. Shorter Boot Time by saving kernel memory to the hard drive on shutdown, similar to what Hibernate does on today’s computers. Here is what will make many happy: the Hardware Requirements. The 32 Bit version needs a 1Ghz Processor, 1GB RAM and 16GB of HDD space. 64 Bit will require 2GB RAM and 20 GB HDD Space. This means almost all current computers will be supported. Here are some screenshots of Windows 8 running on a Tablet PC. Here is a Video Preview of Windows 8 running on a Samsung device by ThisIsMyNext. You can read Microsoft’s official release on Windows 8 here . You can also try the Windows Developer Preview of Windows 8 for yourself from here . What do you think of Windows 8 so far? In the post-PC Era, will it dominate over Apple’s iOS? Do let us know.
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