Introducing HTC Touch HD

Enjoy music videos, films and streaming like you never thought possible on a mobile device. Experience internet browsing so exhilarating... it feels like you never left your laptop at home. It’s all delivered to you on a pixel-packed 3.8” WVGA screen and seamlessly tied together with touch-responsive TouchFLO^TM 3D.

The ultrafast 3.5G technology lets you surf and download at true broadband speeds. On HSDPA networks, the Touch HD^TM delivers downlink speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps – there is no need to slow down while you work or play.

The newly added Stock tab keeps you informed of the latest stock quotes, while the connected Home screen puts e-mail, messages and calendar only a finger-stroke away.

Get directions, view satellite maps and find your location using Google Maps. The maps are bigger and crisper thanks to the expansive screen. Tap the onscreen controls to zoom in and view more detail. This is navigation taken to a whole new level.

Highlights

	3.8-inch wide, WVGA (480 X 800 pixel) display offering a cinema experience on the go
	Vibrant TouchFLOTM 3D user interface, responding perfectly to your finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, browsing the web, and launching media
	Surf and download at broadband speed with HSDPA internet connectivity
	Google Maps enhanced by the wide screen viewing platform
	5 megapixel camera for quality stills and video
	3.5 mm audio jack makes the Touch HDTM compatible with the majority of audio equipment available

Google Chrome - coming of a web browser

Google has announced that it will launch beta version of it's web browser named Chrome in about 100 countries today. Need for the another browser on the net is justified by google as

We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build.

The new browser is able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites by keeping each tab in a isolated 'sandbox'. Chrome includes a new powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers. Thus increasing the speed and responsiveness.

Apparently it is an open source browser with components from apple’s webkit and mozilla’s firefox with some new features.

Download link http://www.google.com/chrome

Superspeed USB or USB 3.0

Intel unveils the draft specification of its xHCI (eXtensible Host Controller Interface) for USB 3.0. The xHCI draft specification describes the register-level host controller interface for Universal Serial Bus (USB) Revision 2.0 and above. The specification includes a description of the hardware/software interface between system software and the host controller hardware.

This specification is intended for hardware component designers, system builders and device driver (software) developers. Specs can be checked at the link http://www.intel.com/technology/usb/spec.htm.

For the end users what does it means ? If we go along with the promoter group (Microsoft, Intel, Texas Instrument, HP, NEC, NXP) of the USB 3.0 then it means a SuperSpeed USB personal interconnect that can deliver over 10 times the speed of today’s connection. The technology will target fast sync-and-go transfer applications in the PC, consumer and mobile segments that are necessary as digital media become ubiquitous and file sizes increase up to and beyond 25 Gigabytes. USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 will create a backward-compatible standard with the same ease-of-use and plug and play capabilities of previous USB technologies. Targeting over 10x performance increase, the technology will draw from the same architecture of wired USB. In addition, the USB 3.0 specification will be optimized for low power and improved protocol efficiency.