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Bloom Box Concept : Bloom Energy Server

Bloom Box or Bloom Energy Server is a power station in a box which generate electricity using liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons like gasoline, diesel, propane etc produced from fossil or bio sources.

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) converts hydrocarbon fuel into electricity at very high efficiency and with significantly reduced C02, NOx and SOx emissions. Bloom’s Energy Server™ is a new class of distributed power generator, producing clean, reliable, affordable electricity at the customer site.

Bloom Energy and K R Sridhar

Bloom Box was developed by California based company named Bloom Energy started by Indian K R Sridhar. He completed his degree in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Trichy and moved to US in 1980s. He completed his master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering and Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He started Bloom Energy in 2002. Prior to founding Bloom Energy, Dr. KR Sridhar was Director of the Space Technologies Laboratory (STL) at the University of Arizona where he was also a professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering.

Bloom Box Usage

At present Bloom Box’s initial expense is very high so only few corporates are using it like Google, eBay, Walmart, Bank of America, FedEx, Coca Cola etc.

A 100 KW Bloom Server costs around 3.5 crore Indian Rupees with a 10 year life span. But Bloom Energy is expected to bring home sized 1km bloom boxes at a price tag of 1.5 lakhs in near future.

Bloom Energy Server Advantages

Some of the main advantage of this system is low running cost, environment-friendly, no volatility, quick access to power, improved energy security and reliability.

Bloom Energy in India

In India Bloom Energy Server concept has a large potential especially in rural areas. Also power cuts and power deficiency is a major problem hurting business and investments in many states in India. Even though it cannot produce large amount of power it can become an alternate source of power to businesses as well as households and can help to light up remote villages where power is still a dream.

Bloom Energy also has an office in India at Mumbai : Bloomenergy (India) Private Limited (BEIPL).

Bloom Energy official Site : http://www.bloomenergy.com/

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India’s major CDMA and GSM mobile service provider ADAG Reliance Communications (RCOM) has tied up with Taiwan based mobile handset manufacturer HTC to sell HTC’s Android based smartphones in India. As per the partnership HTC’s new Android based smartphone HTC Wildfire will soon available in India.

HTC Wildfire is a mid-range smartphone running with Android 2.1 and soon will be upgraded to Android 2.2 version. Some major features of HTC Wildfire are Better browsing with full flash support, Recommend Apps directly from your phone, 3.2” 240x 320 QVGA Display, Android 2.1 (Éclair) with HTC Sense, 512MB ROM, 384MB RAM and up to 32GB microSD support, 5 Mega pixel camera with flash, geo-tagging and auto focus etc

HTC Wildfire expected price in India : Rs 15,600/-

Currently HTC Wildfire is powered with Android 2.1 but soon expected to get the latest Android 2.2 or Froyo.

Reliance will also provide free 500 MB data access for first six months with this handset.

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Bharti Airtel has announced a new plan named “Airtel Super 5” to all its customers all over India. With a recharge of Rs 5 customers can choose SMS or Mobile Internet or night calls or Local/STD calls. Plan details varies from circle to circle.

Local and National SMS : Activation code : *555*1#

Except Jammu and Kashmir, depends on your circle you will get 150 to 500 free local and national SMS. Chennai : 500sms, Delhi : 150 sms, Mumbai : 400 sms, Kolkata : 150 sms. Validity also varies from circle to circle. In some circles the recharge is valid for 24 hours but in other circles it expires same day midnight or next day midnight.

Mobile Internet (GPRS) : Activation Code : *555*2#

Except Jammu and Kashmir Circle : 50MB mobile internet. Validity again varies : 24 hours from time of activation or same day midnight or next day midnight.

Local+STD Minutes : Activation Code : *555*5#

9 minutes or 10 minutes local and STD talk time depends on the circle except Jammu and Kashmir.

Local Airtel to Airtel Talk Time : Activation Code : *555*4#

10 paisa per minute or 20p/min or 30p/min depends on the telecom circle.

Local Airtel to Airtel Night Minutes : Activation Code : *555*3#

50 minutes of Airtel to Airtel local night talk time or local airtel talk time at 5 paisa per minute depends on the location.

Some locations the activation code is *222*1#, *222*2#, *222*3#, *222*4#, *222*5#. Please contact airtel customer care to find out the exact activation code applicable in your location.

This is the activation code and details of Airtel Super 5 in Chennai region.

- 500 local/National SMS FREE per day – can be activated directly by dialing *555*1#
- 50 MB of GPRS for internet usage – can be activated directly by dialing *555*2#
- All night calls between 11PM and 6 AM to local Airtel mobiles@ just 5p/min – can be activated directly by dialing *555*3#
- All local Airtel mobile calls@ just 10p/min – can be activated directly by dialing *555*4#
- 10 mins of local/STD calling – can be activated directly by dialing *555*5#

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Much anticipated Smartphone from Apple, iPhone 4G is expected to reach India by October 2010 officially.

India’s leading mobile service provider Bharti Airtel is planning to launch Apple iPhone 4 in India by October as per the plans revealed by company sources.

Vodafone Essar also in talk with Apple Inc to bring iPhone 4G to Indian customers by September or October.

iPhone 4G launched last month with much fanfare in US but failed to keep up the same momentum like iPhone 3G because of its antenna signal strength issue.

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Finally Nokia has decided to make dual SIM mobile phones to compete with Desi dual phone manufacturers. Indian made handsets are hostellers now because of their attractive price and some of their unique features like Dual SIM support

Nokia C1-00

Nokia C1 or officially known as C1-00 is a dual SIM phone. Enjoy the flexibility of two SIM cards in one phone – and switch between them at the touch of a button to stay in control of your calls.

• Keep on talking for up to 13 hours with the long-lasting battery.
• Hear every call – even in noisy environments – with the loud ringtone
• Large keypad  and Shortcut key for SIM switch
• FM radio
• Resolution: 128 x 160 pixels ,Up to 65,000 colors

Nokia C1 Price in India : Rs 2000/-

Nokia C2-00

A stylish dual SIM phone with an external hot swap-enabled SIM slot and great multimedia and messaging features.

• Swap multiple cards using the second hot swap-enabled SIM slot.
• Use the shortcut keys to swap quickly and smoothly between active SIMs.
• Stay in touch with Ovi Mail – your free email account from Nokia.
• Take the web with you – connect to the internet through GPRS.
• Store more with support for up to 32 GB of memory on a microSD card.
• GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 107/64.2 kbps (DL/UL)
• Email (SMTP, IMAP4, POP3), SMS, unified editor
• Supported for SMTP, IMAP4, POP3, MMS, SMS. SMS editor.
• VGA camera
• Music playback file formats: .mp3, .wma, .aac, eAAC, eAAC+

Nokia C2 Price in India : Rs 3500/-

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Nokia c6 is a new business Smartphone from nokia which is expected to reach Indian market soon. Nokia C6 comes with QWERTY keyboard and 3.2” touch screen and Symbian Operating System.

• TFT resistive touch screen 16.7 million colors, 360×640 pixels 3.2 inch screen
• QWERTY keyboard
• 200MB internal memory and up to 16GB microSD external storage, 2GB included.
• 3g : HSDPA 3.6mbps and HSUPA
• Wi-Fi, GPRS, Bluetooth and EDGE
• 5MB camera with fkash, geo tagging, smile and face detection
• Symbian OS 9.4 and ARM 11 434 MHz processor
• Dedicated Camera and Volume keys
• Integrated GPS/A-GPS
• Firmware update over the Air
• Personal Information Management
• Facebook, Hi5 and Myspace Applications
• Nokia Ovi Suite and Ovi Store
• Take high quality 16:9 videos

Nokia C6 Price in India : Rs 14,000 (apx)

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