Posted on Friday, 15th January 2010 by Neeta
Last six months has seen tremendous activity in NCR Noida region near Delhi. While the real estate launches in Gurgaon and Faridabad have been very few, Noida region has stolen march over their compatriots in Northern Capital Region during this period. Expressway and area on the either side of FNG has seen many launches by [...]
Tags: NCR Flats and Housing, NCR Water Table
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Posted on Sunday, 10th January 2010 by Neeta
Private Sector is going to be the key to India’s Power Generation Story in 12th plan. There will be more projects coming up in private sector than in central and state sectors combined together. The era of EPC ( Engineering, Procurement and Construction) it appears is over. There would primarily be two models through which [...]
Tags: engineering, Power Projects India, private sector power projects, Technology
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Posted on Wednesday, 6th January 2010 by Neeta
Solar Water Heating Systems are an integral feature of any green building. Solar water heating systems are employed even in conventional buildings for energy efficient measures. Today, there are many solar water heating systems which can be employed to even get temperatures more than the boiling water temperatures. But the common ones which are in [...]
Tags: Green, Green buildings, Green living, solar power, Solar PV Mission
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Posted on Tuesday, 5th January 2010 by Neeta
Google has offered many free goodies. One such application is Google Maps. This application is being put for many versatile usages in almost every part of world. Google Maps was primarily meant for Googlers to help them in finding out the distances and directions of locations. Even the most die hard fans might not have [...]
Tags: Google, Google maps, Technology
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Posted on Monday, 4th January 2010 by Neeta
Occupancy or Proximity sensors are automatic scheduling devices that detect motion and turn lights on and off accordingly. We all are aware that lighting constitutes about 15% of the total energy requirement of any typical commercial building. There are many energy efficient ways through which lighting can be controlled to get the desired energy savings. [...]
Tags: Energy consumption, Energy efficient buildings, Energy Management, Green Building
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Posted on Sunday, 3rd January 2010 by Neeta
Green technologies are expensive. At a time when India is focusing on providing affordable housing to the masses, adoption of green technologies by developers and builders will add to the construction costs making the housing unaffordable. This is a dilemma which the authorities have to confront with. Simplest way for the authorities to deal with [...]
Tags: Green living, Green Technologies, NCR housing, NCR Water Table
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Posted on Friday, 1st January 2010 by Neeta
I received a mail today which asked me to sign a petition on “Save MySQL” campaign. No doubt databases are very important for knowledge based industries and help web developers & custodians of knowledge management groups in handling, organizing and archiving the data. MySQL has a deadly combination with Linux. LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) [...]
Tags: linux, mysql, Oracle, sun takes over MySQL
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