Commemorating Earth Day and supporting a worthy automotive institution, Nissan yesterday donated a display version of its Xterra Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV) to the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. The body of the vehicle mock-up is raised up, revealing the fuel cell technology underneath. It will be on display beginning with the opening of the forthcoming Alternative Power Exhibition at the museum. “We are pleased to donate this important piece of automotive technology to such an important organization — Nissan values museums like the Petersen with a strong focus on educational programs,” said Jack Collins, vice president, product planning, Nissan North America, Inc. “Nissan is actively engaged in the development of many clean technologies such as fuel cell vehicles, which will be a clean power source for the future.” Continue reading…
ABB today published its 2004 annual report, revising its previously announced full-year and fourth-quarter results to reflect the accounting impact of its recent agreement on a term sheet intended to resolve the asbestos claims of two U.S. subsidiaries, Combustion Engineering (CE) and ABB Lummus Global.
One of the really nice products of ABB recently announced is the e=motion; the high speed electrical car. The 32-foot long car will try to beat the current official FIA electric land speed record of 245 mph and become the first-ever electrically powered vehicle to break the 300 mph barrier. It has already delivered spectacular acceleration during tests in the U.K., easily reaching 146 mph in just 1000 yards - the longest distance available to the team in the U.K. - and unofficially breaking the 139 mph U.K. record for an electric vehicle. Continue reading…
Who says the keys on a computer keybord are only for entering an internet address or data to a program? and who thinks that an old or broken keyboard is useless? If you consider your keyboard like this, not bad to rethink about it!
What you find here is when a simpsons fan computer expert, decides to decorate his car you may find something not so general: a car covered with keyboard keys! The photos are taken in Hollywood with a cell phone camera (click on each to view in real size).
Opera has released version 8 of its browser. It comes with an interesting innovation in security UI - it displays the “O” or “Organisation” field of the certificate in the URL bar (screenshot), ostensibly to help the user in making security decisions about a site.
I’ve just downloaded it, and have found some interesting points in it: Easy Switch: Opera can import your existing bookmarks, contacts, and e-mails. Continue reading…
Though almost everybody (I mean the more experts) prefers Firefox to IE, Fernando Cassia writes those eleven as:
1. The concept of “language packs” lost in the “one Firefox installer for every language”.
2. Why deliver security fixes as “new versions”, instead of patches?.
3. Mozilla Foundation should offer users the option an integrated solution for Web browsing and e-mail, delivered as a single download and install.
4. If Thunderchicken is the buddy program for Firefox, and it does e-mail, isn’t it just logical to name it Firefox Mailer?
5. What happens when you run two or three applications at once for the GRE “runtime engine”.
6. No splash screen as a minor annoyance.
7. No “CCK” like what used to exist in Netscape.
8. NO FTP UPLOADS.
9. BRING BACK THE TABBED SIDEBAR.
10. Outside voices have little saying in the future direction of Firefox, or Thunderbird.
11. An INSTANT MESSENGER (coded in xul) should be integrated.
No way to disagree with some of them, as the others does not seem so important.
What’s happening?! After getting flikr by yahoo, this is the second -and for sure greater- shock; adobe took micromedia.
I’m not sure can we find any successful company except of those 3-4 in near future. Seems something like what happened in traditional business for the stores against McDo or Walmart! Just hoping this makes more satisfaction for the users :)
The new a.d. Tramontana luxury sports car has been developed in Spain with a combination of the philosophy of hand-craftsmanship and aeronautical engineering. Seeing this vehicle on main street, however, will not be easy, as the company will produce only twelve units a year — and each will cost 600 thousand dollars. The Tramontana combines exclusivity and differentiation with the best materials and a handmade production. Continue reading…
One of the friends sent this story to me today. The story about how easily a computer science graduate at Boston’s MIT university fools the conference in US, and they accept his worthless paper randomly produced by a software! It was really funny. As we are trying to publish some journal papers with our professor, that made our day. We were joking about cheating the journal instead of replying the comments :)
Btw, even before this we doubted about the value of sending ours to the conferences.
Commemorating Earth Day and supporting a worthy automotive institution, Nissan yesterday donated a display version of its Xterra Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV) to the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. The body of the vehicle mock-up is raised up, revealing the fuel cell technology underneath. It will be on display beginning with the opening of the forthcoming Alternative Power Exhibition at the museum. “We are pleased to donate this important piece of automotive technology to such an important organization — Nissan values museums like the Petersen with a strong focus on educational programs,” said Jack Collins, vice president, product planning, Nissan North America, Inc. “Nissan is actively engaged in the development of many clean technologies such as fuel cell vehicles, which will be a clean power source for the future.”
Though almost everybody (I mean the more experts) prefers 
What’s happening?! After getting flikr by yahoo, this is the second -and for sure greater- shock; adobe 
The new a.d. Tramontana luxury sports car has been developed in Spain with a combination of the philosophy of hand-craftsmanship and aeronautical engineering. Seeing this vehicle on main street, however, will not be easy, as the company will produce only twelve units a year — and each will cost 600 thousand dollars. The Tramontana combines exclusivity and differentiation with the best materials and a handmade production.