Wireless Batteryless Switches!!!

Schneider Electric unveiled the prototype of the world’s first ZigBee-compatible self-powered switch at the ZigBee European Forum in Munich, Germany, on June 29 2009.

With this wireless, batteryless switch based on ZigBee technology, Schneider Electric is responding to market expectations for a product that is: 
- easy to install, as it is wireless,
- reliable, as the switch operates continuously and requires no maintenance, 
- green, as there are no batteries to recycle.

The switch illustrates two aspects that Schneider Electric feels are indispensable in the design of more energy efficient solutions for residential and commercial buildings: true interoperability of networked equipment and the confidence and foundation for upgradeability provided by a shared technological standard.

The prototype presented in Munich grew out of Schneider Electric’s involvement in the HOMES program (www.homesprogramme.com), a European project comprising 13 manufacturers and researchers that is designed to create solutions for achieving optimal energy performance in all buildings. Emulation and knowledge sharing within this ecosystem considerably speeded the development of the ZigBee-compatible self-powered switch.

Software Reviews 2009 !! looks quite interestin

Top 10 Browser reviews 2009: click here


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Top 10 Antivirus reviews 2009: click here

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Ease of Use
Effective at Identifying Viruses and Worms
Effective at Cleaning or Isolating Infected Files
Activity Reporting
Feature Set
Ease of Installation and Setup
Help Documentation

U.S recession ends Unofficially - Jobs r back !!!!!

India Inc on the road to recovery

Wed, Nov 4 05:10 PM

India Inc is on the road to recovery from the global downturn struck he world economy, with companies showing buoyancy on hiring and salary increases, a survey by global HR consultancy Mercer says.

Corporate India is expected to witness an average eight per cent salary increase this year and as much as 50 per cent of companies have strong hiring plans for the next three months.

India Inc's hiring activity has picked up 4.1 per cent with IT, BPO and real estate sectors turning bullish after a long time, according to a report by job portal naurkri.com. Meanwhile, officials from several colleges say that firms such as TCS, Wipro, Infosys, HP, Cisco, Sapient, IBM, Convergys BPO and Symphony Services plan to hire in a big way.

Infosys has announced an across-the-board salary hike and promotions with effect from October 1. When domestic salaries have risen by 8 per cent, onsite remunerations have gone up by 2 per cent. This is expected to reduce the company's margins by 2 per cent in the next two quarters. Wipro is also looking forward to campus hiring by the end of the year.

Outsourcing giant Accenture and India's largest IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have approached HR firms for large scale recruitment. In response to a rebound in IT outsourcing contracts, IT services provider iGate has also announced it plans to hire 1,500 people in the calendar year 2010.

India's fourth-biggest software exporter, HCL Technologies, said its revenues for the first quarter ended September 30, 2009, rose almost 29 per cent and is planning to hire 2,600 software engineers in October-December quarter to cope with a growing demand by expanding its existing service lines.

The ITeS/BPO sector saw an increase of 18.3 per cent in hiring activity in September, while real estate and retail saw a rise of 36.8 per cent and 12.2 per cent, respectively.

However, students are aware of the weak dollar and the impact of the credit crisis, and are ready to get placed with salaries ranging between Rs 1.8 lakh and Rs 5 lakh.

Kamalahasan and Rajinikanth hugging each other

          
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At kamal50 function Rajinikanth and kamalahaasan hugging and kissing each other wonderful moment of the whole function for a legend.        

Fancy Pinkish Circles in FaceBook Scroll..

Fancy Pinkish Circles in FaceBook Scroll..
Hey Guys try this while on facebook: On your keyboard, press UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A, ENTER and then scroll up OR down. You'll see something amazing...!!!

Sky Drive Explorer

SkyDrive StorageMicrosoft SkyDrive offers a generous 25 GB of free online-storage but lacks the simplicity of having the online-storage mounted as an local disk-drive for easier access like the one offered by ZumoDrive and LiveDrive, however, the same can now be achieved by using free Windows utility - SkyDrive Explorer.

SkyDrive Explorer enables users to use SkyDrive online-storage like a local disk-drive attached to the computer, user's can perform all the actions as they are working on a local disk-drive including full drag-n-drop support and multi-operations like renaming objects or deleting a group of files/folders.

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