HTC Desire-Z Launched In India For Rs 25,590

HTC has finally introduced slide-out QWERTY handset - Desire Z in India. Featuring a 3.7-inch Super Clear LCD screen display, the Desire Z comes with Google Android Froyo update on it. Carved out of aluminium, the HTC Desire Z arrives with an updated Sense UI and with HTCSense.com support.

HTC Desire Z will be sold in India at a market operating price of Rs. 25,590. This smartphone was listed almost three months ago on Flipkart. Desire Z's 3.7-inch Super Clear LCD touchscreen display supports 480x800 pixel resolution which makes text and images appear crisp.

Housing a 800Mhz Qualcomm MSM7230 CPU and a 512MB RAM, the Desire Z comes with Android 2.2 Froyo update. SMS lovers and frequent email junkies can make the best of the full QWERTY keyboard that appears when you slide the screen outwards.

The Desire Z has a 5-megapixel camera at the back that is capable of recording 720p HD video recording. It packs 1.5GB internal memory, optical trackpad, GPS for location services, digital compass, Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and DLNA support.

HTC had added 1300mAh battery to the Desire Z which offers about 9.8 hours of run time.

A Thinking Computer

Dharmendra Modha, at IBM’s Almaden lab in Silicon Valey,   is building a simulated monkey brains using images projected on flat-screen TVs.

Mr. Modha has used nanotechnology, supercomputing, neuroscience etc. in the project. If he can achieved success then computers will think link human’s brain. But to taste the fruit, you have to be patient and it will take time. 

The projects at Almaden include an electric battery for automobiles which can run 500 miles on one charge and a program showing changes in geographical data. 

IBM has boosted its earnings by taking steps like quality control and buybacks. 

Earlier, in 1990s, Almaden developed a method of encryption for media content which is used in memory cards and Blu-ray discs. This technology earned million of dollars as licensing fees for IBM. 

Other innovations which earned million dollars for IBM are as follows: 

• In 1997, IBM introduced Giant magneto-resistive heads which helped to increase data storage capacity of hard drives 40 times.

• A query system developed in 1990s, which integrates data from different sources. The technology is names as Garlic.

Technology companies continue to fund such researches. Google allows its employees to spend 20% of their working time to work on their personal projects. It is learnt that people are more productive when they are working on projects which really excite them.

Mr Modha had quit IBM a decade ago, but came back as he realized that technical projects need more money.

Science News

Paralysis: 

The person who is paralyzed, can get robotic assistance. If someone has lost ability to control an organ of the body or has lost muscle function in specific area, can use new invention to regian the original functionality. So far scientists have developed artificial muscle to replace the muscle in eyelids. 

Computers: 

New invention in computers is lip-reading computers. These computers can identify multiple languages. These computers can differentiate between 3 languages just by lip movement. So in near future, instead of typing anything, you will just speak. Typing speed will not be a constrain any more.

The revolutionary research is currently led by Stephen Cox and Jake Newman. The computer could identify Arabic, Cantonese, English, French, German, Italian, Mandarin,  Polish and Russian. The study was funded by the EPSRC and is a part of a larger project of the University of East Anglia that focuses on automatic lip-reading.

Colon Cencer Risks slashed One-third

To detect and remove growths from Colon, a single, five minute procedure is sufficient. It not only slashes cancer rates to 33%, it also reduces deaths by 43%. The procedure is known as sigmoidoscopy.

Colon cancer is the second biggest killer cancer worldwide. Out of more than 1 million diagnosed having colon cancer 6 lac die from it.

There are precancerous polyps present in the body before the person actually shows any symptom of colon cancer. With sigmoidoscopy, these pre-cancerous polyps are detected and removed.

Thousands of lives can be saved every year with this procedure, and many persons will be saved from bowel cancer in turn saving money for the Government.

A flexible tune of 1/2 millimeter is threaded through the rectum and the bottom third of the colon where pre-cancerous polyps deveop. When the polyps detected, it is either burned or removed in the next step of about 4 minutes. It is neither painful nor require sedation. But patients must take enema before treatment.

Revival of Capsule by NASA

NASA would renew a space capsule to give astronauts aboard the international Space Station an emergency escape and develop a rocket capable of deep-space missions, will be proposed by Barak Obama tomorrow.

It would spend $ 3.1 billion during coming 5 years on R & D of the rocket which can take astranauts to Moon or Mars. Design of rocket will be finalised by 2015 after the R & D. 

The space shuttle program is completing its final missions before being shut down. Obama will put the details of his space policy at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The president announced a plan in Feb to develop rockets and spacecraft for a return to the moon by 2020. Obama also advices NASA to develop rocket systems that moght take US astranuats into dep space and enterpreneurs may get into space business.

The Orion capsule was intended to take astronauts to the moon via space station and also dock with the orbiting outpost and take astronauts back to earth. The moon was last visited almost 40 years ago.

New iPod From Apple

Apple Inc.’s new iPod, which went on sale Saturday, may look like an oversized iPhone or iPod. And it runs the same operating system, and most if not all the applications already available for those devices. Yet the experience of using the iPod turns out to be surprisingly different. Almost like learning a new language. Luckily for them, though, Apple has made the new language both elegant and very easy to master.

The 9.7 Inch diagonal Backlit screen is great for watching high Definition videos, playing games or reading, at least in normal conditions. The screen is something of a fingerprint magnet, though; keep a good cleaning cloth handy. The One of Feature is a convenient backlight control accessible from the iphone books.

The iPod’s screen size makes Web surfing a nice experience, except for one thing. Like the iPhone and iPod Touch, the iPod doesn’t support Adobe Systems Inc.’s widely used Flash animation software, meaning that video clips on thousands of sites won’t play. Apple’s Steve Jobs may have his reasons Apple says Flash consumes too much power, among other alleged flaws but those empty boxes on so many Web pages really are a distraction.

The ipod is more like a hardback: substantial, more enjoyable in a visual and tactile sense, but bigger and heavier. I haven’t yet tried reading on the iPod at the beach.

The new iBook store has many fewer volumes available than the Kindle. But the books it does have, which seem to include most current titles, look like real books, with color illustrations, a paper like feel and even the ability, if you stop in mid page turn, to see the words on both the old and new pages.

That kind of slick animation, and the iPod’s general speed and responsiveness, are products of the custom designed Apple micro processor called the A4 that’s at the heart of all models. They start at $ 499 for a unit with 16 Giga Bytes of solid state storage, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity; 32 and 64 Giga Bytes models will be $ 100 and $ 200 more, respectively.

There are good reasons to be skeptical about the iPod’s potential as a device for productivity. Unlike a Microsoft Windows PC or Mac, it doesn’t run multiple applications at the same time. Storage is limited, and carrying the add-on keyboard might be a pain. With no camera, at least in version one, the iPod won’t be handling video Conferences over Skype.

Still, because the iPod is so different from what’s come before, it may take a while before we figure out just what it really is, and how it will be used. Ultimately, its users, app developers and content publishers will have more to say about that than Apple itself. Right now, the possibilities are vast.