Boeing's 787 Dreamliner grounded - Deliveries

Boeing's 787 Dreamliner grounded

Entire 50-strong global fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners, including six of Air India, were grounded as US regulator FAA asked airlines to cease operations of these planes temporarily

 

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner, owned by Qatar Airways, performs a display flight at the Farnborough Airshow 2012 in southern England July 10, 2012.

 

The Air India's Dreamliner Boeing 787 is given a traditional water cannon salute by the fire tenders upon its arrival at the airport in New Delhi September 8, 2012. Air India took delivery of its first Boeing 787 commercial wide body airplane on Thursday at Boeing Co's final assembly plant after a months-long dispute between airline and manufacturer over compensation for a four-year production delay. Air India's Dreamliner is equipped with 18 business class seats and 238 economy class seats.

A Japan Airlines' (JAL) Boeing Co's 787 plane is seen at New Tokyo international airport in Narita, east of Tokyo Janauary 9, 2013. Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner jet on Tuesday suffered its second mishap in two days, with the same airline and at the same U.S. airport - the latest in a series of setbacks that have heightened safety concerns over the new aircraft. A fuel leak forced a 787 operated by Japan Airlines, similar to the one pictured, to cancel takeoff at Boston's Logan International Airport, a day after an electrical fire on another 787 after a JAL flight to Boston from Tokyo.

Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner aircraft stands on the tarmac at Manchester Airport in Manchester, northern England April 24, 2012.

The first Boeing 787 Dreamliner sits on the assembly line at the company's Everett, Washington plant, May 19, 2008.

An air stewardess for Qatar Airways poses in the economy class cabin of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner at the Farnborough Airshow 2012 in southern England July 10, 2012.

People view the Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane in Long Beach, California March 14, 2012.

A scale model of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner sits on a table in front of an actual aircraft during the 787's certification event at Paine Field, Everett, Washington on August 26, 2011. Administrators from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) presented Boeing executives with their certification letters of the 787 Dreamliner at the event. All-Nippon Airways (ANA) of Japan is scheduled to be the first airline to receive the first production line 787 Dreamliner.

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft (top) lands for delivery to All Nippon Airways (ANA) of Japan at Haneda airport in Tokyo September 28, 2011. The Dreamliner will go into service for Japan's All Nippon Airways on October 26.

Final assembly takes place on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger planes at the company's Everett, Washington plant, April 30, 2009. The first 787 Dreamliner is scheduled for its first test flight in June.

Global Temperatures Continue to Rise – Global Warming

Global Temperatures Continue to Rise – Global Warming

This week, scientists at NASA released their global climate analysis for 2012 which revealed that Earth continues to experience warmer temperatures than several decades ago. The past year was the ninth warmest year on record since 1880, continuing what appears to be a long-term global trend of rising temperatures. The ten warmest years in the 132-year record have all occurred since 1998, and the last year that was cooler than average was 1976. The hottest years on record were 2010 and 2005.

The analysis was done by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) which monitors global surface temperatures on an ongoing basis, comparing temperatures around the globe to the average global temperature from the mid-20th century.

In 2012, the average temperature was about 14.6 degrees Celsius (58.3 degrees Fahrenheit). This is .55 degrees C (1.0 degree F) warmer than the mid-20th century baseline, with the global average temperature having risen about 0.8 degrees C (1.4 degrees F) since 1880. The majority of that change has occurred in the past forty years.

Additionally, last week the US National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) released their latest climate report from 2012 and found that it was the warmest year ever recorded in the contiguous United States. The average temperature for the contiguous United States for 2012 was 13 degrees C (55.3 degrees F) which was 3.2°F above the 20th century average.

The data was gather by NASA GISS, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center, the Japanese Meteorological Agency, and the Met Office Hadley Centre in the United Kingdom. All four institutions tally temperature data from stations around the world and make independent judgments about whether the year was warm or cool compared to other years. Though there are minor variations from year to year, all four records show peaks and valleys in sync with each other. All show rapid warming in the past few decades, and all show the last decade as the warmest.

Scientists emphasize that weather patterns cause fluctuations in average temperatures from year to year, but the continued increase in greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere assures that there will be a long-term rise in global temperatures. Each individual year will not necessarily be warmer than the previous year, but scientists expect each decade to be warmer than the previous decade.

“One more year of numbers isn’t in itself significant,” GISS climatologist Gavin Schmidt said. “What matters is this decade is warmer than the last decade, and that decade was warmer than the decade before. The planet is warming. The reason it’s warming is because we are pumping increasing amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.”

Top 10 Sites For Online Mobile Recharge In India

Top 10 Sites For Online Mobile Recharge In India

Online Mobile Recharge in India started the ecommerce revolution in India and now more and more people are shopping online. And with the ever increasing number of mobile services providers in the market in India, a user is exposed to a variety of choices. In this digital era where everyone is busy with so many tasks in hand, pre-paid mobile service seems to be an attractive option considering the flexibility it offers. Also they are always on the lookout for an easy way to recharge their mobile phones, either from the comfort of their homes or offices.

 

1.Rechargeitnow.com

A Gurgaon based company; the site offers 24×7 and instant web based pre-paid recharge service for multiple mobile operators in India. It also provides online DTH recharge service.

 

2.FastRecharge.com

A Chennai based company; the site offers online mobile recharge service for all pre-paid mobile services. It also provides the service for VoIP and DTH.

 

3.Indiamobilerecharge.com

A Chennai based company; the site caters to the online recharge of most of the major providers in India. It also has an additional service of bus ticket booking on its home page.

 

4.Rechargeguru.com

A New Delhi based company; the site supports most of the Indian mobile operators. Apart from this, it also provides Online DTH recharge service, Electric Bill payment, webhosting services and ticketing services.

 

5.Onestoprechrge.com

A Surat based company; the site facilitates online recharge for all mobile and DTH services across India.

 

6.Mobikwik.com

This site support majority of the mobile carriers in India and accepts many form of payments for its service.

 

7.Erecharge.in

A Puducherry based company; the site offers online recharge service for Airtel,Vodafone, BPL Mobile, Tata Indicom and Reliance Mobile in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka only.

 

8.Ezrecharge.in

A Chennai based company; the site offers SMS mobile recharge service apart from the online recharge service for most of the mobile service providers.

 

9.Easymobilerecharge.com

An Una, Himachal Pradesh based company; this is a multi mobile operator and instant pre-paid recharge portal.

 

10.Anytimerecharge.co

A Hyderabad based company; the site is powered by mobikwik.com and provides online recharge service for Indian prepaid mobile phones from anywhere at any time.

Top Visited Free SMS Sites in India/2013

Top Visited Free SMS Sites in India/2013

Google SMS Channel

Google allows users to register their mobile numbers and send free SMS after creating a channel.

Ibibo.com

Ibibo’s iSMS service allows users to link their mobile phones to their respective ibibo accounts. Apart from free SMS, it also allows them to make free phone calls.

160by2.com

160by2 is very popular today owing to its features. It allows users to send 80 characters long message. It also gives advertisers an option of 80 characters long advertisement in every message.

Way2sms.com

It is better than 160by2 as it supports 92 characters of text messages. The rest of the characters are for advertisement purpose. It also allows you to get email alerts.

IndyaRocks.com

IndyaRocks is also quite popular since the website is a social networking site targeted towards youngsters. In fact, it is a popular networking site, if not the best. It allows users to send up to 140 characters of message.

Youmint.com

Youmint allows users to send up to 160 characters of message. It also has attractive schemes to win awards and money.

SMSgupshup.com

A social messaging service that allows sharing and connection between friends or fans, apart from sending free interactive messages. Many enterprises also seem to be using its service.

SMSTI.in

An interactive site, this site offers free SMS service. Apart from that, it also has greetings, videos, games and news among others.

Atrochatro.com

This site offers free SMS service across India. Apart from that, it also has E-Cards, SMS Collection, Horoscopes, Entertainment News and Games.

SMS7.in

SMS7 allows users to send up to 440 characters of messages. This site has certainly won over the above nine sites in terms of SMS lengths.

Top 10 Classified website in India/free Classified

Top 10 Classified website in India/free Classified

Online classified advertising in india is Rs. 800 crore business. Because of the sheer volume of growth of small scale industries and businesses in india , classified websites tend to grow at a very fast rate. That is the reason many classified portal which were launched in many countries became most successful in india . The indian arm of ebayclassifieds is quikr which is 10 times more successful than its father.

The basic reason for the success of classified websites is that in order to advertise their products , people tend to create lot of content on the website. That means a lot of food for Google, although of low search value they add up bit by bit to make it grow through search engines. This is known as hump and tail philosophy for search engine marketing. Rather than having few pages having high search value , classified websites grow with the help of huge number of pages having low search value.

 

1. ClickIndia.com

• Alexa rank – 975
• Daily income – $3000
• Founder – Pankaj agarwal ( an IIM indore passout)

This is the most popular classified website in india with the worst design adapted and i must say its indian craiglist (Ugly but popular) . First of all if you will go to this website through search engines, searching for some thing, chances are you will click on the adsense ads wisely placed around the content. Its quite easy to develop a feeling after visiting this portal that ” why i came here”.

Clickindia was founded somewhere in noida with 5 people and grew without the fuel of advertisement to the top most slot in india . Amazingly they did it in just two years.

 

2. Quikr.com

• Alexa rank – 1100
• Daily income – $2500

What Clickindia did in two years , quikr did it in one year with the power of money. On the month of its launch they spent a huge amount of money and pumped it in top 10k websites in the world. After that it grew due to its SEO friendly structure and gathered customers made through advertising. Nowadays also quikr spends a huge sum on adwords and is growing on to break on through to the other side.

 

3. Olx.in

• Alexa rank -2200
• Daily income -$1300
• Founder -Fabrice Grinda

Fabrice grinda founded olx in year 2006 and now it is present in 90 countries. The overall revenue of olx is $5 million each year and its growing at an astronomical rate. The indian venture that is olx.in is one of the most successful business and have a huge share in its overall revenue. Fabrice grinda is an economics graduate and showed the world that how its possible to earn a huge revenue with a few PHP pages. Olx consists of 140 employees and Fabrice is CEO and founder of this crocodile website.

4. Click.in

• Alexa Rank – 3962
• Daily Income – $700

Click.in is the 4th most popular website in india. Its a venture of OneIndia.in , a famous news portal with a world rank 600. Clearly it gets a lot of referral traffic from oneindia.in , thats why i don’t respect websites like these with existing godfathers. Although the design is cool and easily crawlable by both Google and users.

5. Locanto.in

• Alexa rank – 5348
• Daily Income – $500

Locanto have launched itself in 40 countries and five major languages. Locanto.in is indian classified and its also quite popular. As tha name suggest locanto gives lot of sh** about putting location while posting. For example its mandatory to put pin code while posting your ad. Who will tell them that half of india do not know their pin code.

6. vivastreet.co.in

• Alexa Rank – 7500
• Daily Income – $400

Vivastreet operates itself in 17 countries with its most successful venture in india. The unique feature of this classified is its browsable map like structure. Go on the home page and you will see the map of india along with small links of categories and locations.

7. Adoos.in

• Alexa rank – 11,000
• Daily Income – $250

Adoos was founded in 2003 and started its classified business from spain. Now it have spread its feet over 60 countries and 13 languages. Not at a faster growth rate like other big players, adoos still is stable at its current position.

8.  Indialist.com

• Alexa Rank – 17,000
• Daily Income - $170

Indialist is a classified business of BharatMatrimony.com. Although the website is still seo friendly but not good looking with the worst color combination possible. Whether it will remain at this spot or slip below by upcoming competitors, that is a thing to watch in near future.

9. Khojle.in

• Alexa Rank – 17,000
• Daily Income -$140

Khojle is the online startup of dainik jagran group. Clearly another offline godfather and even after its seo unfreindly structure it have made it to the top 10 list in 2 years and now growing at a fast rate. I wonder why they have given the search box in the size of an elephant and wanna force users to search.

10. adeex.com

Adeex is the freshest and looking forward to make it big in the indian classified market. The best things about this website is that although its new it have hugely invested in adwords campaign and tried its best to make it a better place to search for classifieds.

What Craters on the Moon Teach Us About Earth

What Craters on the Moon Teach Us About Earth

Some questions about our own planet are best answered by looking someplace else entirely… in the case of impact craters and when, how and how often they were formed, that someplace can be found shining down on us nearly every night: our own companion in space, the Moon.

By studying lunar impact craters both young and old scientists can piece together the physical processes that took place during the violent moments of their creation, as well as determine how often Earth — a considerably bigger target — was experiencing similar events (and likely in much larger numbers as well.)