Call Center in the Philippines

The call center business in the Philippines is booming and unstoppable. A lot of young graduates, college level, and experienced professionals venture in this job. The business environment gives you several opportunities for professional growth and provides you a relatively reasonable compensation relative to the cost of living in the country. The only requirement is you have to be proficient in oral and written English plus some basics in computer applications. There is no age limit, they employ people from 18 years of age and above. There is no discrimination regardless of your sexual preference, religion, and even if some one is physically challenged.

For those who don't know yet, "A call centre or call center (see spelling differences) is a centralized office used for the purpose of receiving and transmitting a large volume of requests by telephone. A call centre is operated by a company to administer incoming product support or information inquiries from consumers. Outgoing calls for telemarketing, clientele, and debt collection are also made. In addition to a call centre, collective handling of letters, faxes, and e-mails at one location is known as a contact centre.

A call centre is often operated through an extensive open workspace for call centre agents, with work stations that include a computer for each agent, a telephone set/headset connected to a telecom switch, and one or more supervisor stations. It can be independently operated or networked with additional centres, often linked to a corporate computer network, including mainframes, microcomputers and LANs. Increasingly, the voice and data pathways into the centre are linked through a set of new technologies called computer telephony integration (CTI).

Most major businesses use call centres to interact with their customers. Examples include utility companies, mail order catalogue firms, and customer support for computer hardware and software. Some businesses even service internal functions through call centres. Examples of this include help desks and sales support. "

See web link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_center.

There are already hundreds of call centers in the Philippines that employ almost several hundred thousands of Filipinos. A portion of the labor force that earn at least a relatively decent income, help our economy, and religiously pay taxes. Among the areas where there are numerous call centers are in Makati City that has around 270, Ortigas Center Pasig that has around 140, Quezon City that has around 70, and Eastwood Libis that has around 30. And these numbers continue to grow each year.

Therefore, for business people, the call center business is the best bet for a practical investment. For professionals who aspire for a reasonable compensation and career growth, the call center job is the best bet for your practical job.

Barabus TKR: The World's Fastest Car

Bugatti Veyron is no longer the world's fastest car! The Veyron which is said to have 250 mph top speed and 1000 horsepower is no longer the benchmark for the world's fastest car record.

Barabus TKR officially has a new 1005 horsepower and with the top speed of 270 mph beating the former by 20 mph and 5 horsepower. It is revealed by the automakers that the car can reach 0 to 60 mph in its first 2 seconds. Its power comes from a 6.0 liter V8 twin-turbocharged with dual inter coolers and its body and chassis are built from full carbon fibre. The projected market price is £360,000, which is roughly $500,000, as according to its automakers.

The car has been designed and developed for 10 years in Italy and will be manufactured for 300-400 units and the power plant is going to be in the United Kingdom. The projected production of units will run up to three years.

Now, is this car hot or what? Let us wait for further developments of this car because there are already a lot of negative reactions regarding the aesthetic design of its body. The aim may not always be the top for speed, however, if the claim is going to be the fastest car in the world, then we may look into the design of the car that we can utilize for practical purposes.

X-Hawk: The Flying Car

A flying car is no longer an urban myth nor a science fiction, it is real! It is as real as an automobile that doesn't use gasoline and diesel. Well, it does use gasoline, however, the concept of a flying car, is now being look at by several big companies for production. And production is now anticipated.

"The X-Hawk Flying Car, a revolutionary, FAA certifiable urban aerial aircraft, is being developed by Urban Aeronautics of Tel Aviv, Israel. It is an aircraft that has the VTOL (Vertical-Take-Off and Landing) capability of a helicopter, but without the exposed rotors that make it dangerous or impossible for helicopters to maneuver in complex urban and natural environments.

The first prototype should be ready in 2009. The Flying Car is configured as a tandem-fan, turbine powered vehicle. The pilot will use a "fly-by-wire" multi-channel flight control system as well as an automatic stabilization feature to help control the aircraft and maintain level flight. The ducted fan design allows the car to achieve the speed and maneuverability of a helicopter: 155 mph, 12,000-foot altitude and two hours of flight time."

See web link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Hawk.

This car, categorically, a helicopter, has a lot of practical use. Its speed and maneuverability can be utilized for several rescue operations in an urban setting. Imagine if you are trapped in a high rise building due to fire or unforeseen calamities. Imagine if you are pressed for time and traffic is along the way. Imagine if the situation requires you to deliver an important drug or medicine to a dying patient. Imagine if danger is along the way but an important person needs to deliver a matter of national interest. The answer is a much faster, more maneuverable, and more efficient mode of transport, a flying car.

Although, there are still a lot of debate whether there can be a flying car or not. The debate is no longer by definition, X-Hawk, a helicopter, is a flying car. Sooner or later, vehicle designs of this sort will reveal much similar to that of an automobile. Now, on whether a flying car is possible or not, you should look and see. On whether this is not possible because of safety precautions, we need to redesign traffic and safety regulations that will accommodate flying vehicles. We can't stop this practical car to be created and be mass produced in the very near future. I have to admit though, the price right now of a unit of X-Hawk is relatively not practical.

Nuclear Car

The big problems are oil prices continue to go up and the environment green house effect is becoming worse. The causes of these problems are clear and have become our present danger. Unless we do something about these, we will continue to live in discomfort and worse suffer a much larger scale, uncontrollable, and unforeseen events.

General Motor's Chevrolet has soon their electric car, Chevrolet Volt, to dominate where the rubber meets the road, because of its practical benefit to the driving public wherein the price of gasoline is no longer reachable in their pocket and the notable concern to care about our deteriorating environment needs to be addressed. Honda has now it's hydro electric vehicle, Honda FCX Clarity, already leased to a few areas of commuters in Japan and the US, as another attempt to resolve the global crisis of oil and to provide alternative source of fuel aside from the traditional gasoline and diesel. Other giant vehicle manufacturers, such as Mercedes, Toyota, Nissan, and BMW are also spending a lot of money for research in developing their hybrid cars.

In the mid to late 1950's, there is one optimistic attempt to create an atomic vehicle, that will almost answer all problems pertaining to the high cost of fuel and the unfriendly emissions of automobiles. The attempt to build a low cost, efficient, and clean source of energy for vehicles, the nuclear car.

"The Ford Nucleon was a nuclear-powered concept car developed by Ford Motor Company in 1958. No operational models were built. The design did not include an internal-combustion engine, rather, a vehicle was to be powered by a small nuclear reactor in the rear of the vehicle. The vehicle featured a power capsule suspended between twin booms at the rear. The capsule, which would contain radioactive core for motive power, was designed to be easily interchangeable, according to performance needs and the distances to be traveled.

The passenger compartment of the Nucleon featured a one-piece, pillar-less windshield and compound rear window, and was topped by a cantilever roof. There were air intakes at the leading edge of the roof and at the base of its supports. An extreme cab-forward style provided more protection to the driver and passengers from the reactor in the rear. Some pictures show the car with tail fins sweeping up from the rear fenders.

The drive train would be integral to the power module, and electronic torque converters would take the place of the drive-train used at the time. It was said that cars like the Nucleon would be able to travel 8000 km (5,000 miles) or more, depending on the size of the core, without recharging. Instead, at the end of the core's life they would be taken to a charging station, which research designers envisioned as largely replacing gas stations. The car was never built and never went into production, but it remains an icon of the Atomic Age of the 1950s."

See web link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_car.

There are many negative criticisms regarding the radical concept of the automobile because of the historical disasters that we got from nuclear technology and the pessimistic view that we can not create miniature nuclear power source for vehicles like those of submarines. The atomic car with the steam turbine of mobile Chernobyl was referred to us, the driving atomic bomb. Well, the concept car was dismiss too fast and too short because of being too ambitious. With the advancements that we have in modern physics and nuclear technology, we need to reexamine and look at the possibility of the nuclear car, this might be a good solution for the global crisis of petroleum and the environment.