The first one i.e the Turtle resembles the Palm Pre to some extent. It comes loaded with a slide out keyboard and a nice vibrant looking screen. The other one i.e. Pure will remind of possibly every other smartphone available in the market these days. Reportedly both the phones have been targeted towards the youth.

Well, by the looks of it this one doesn’t look even a bit of the iPhone killer it was being touted to be. And anyways it doesn’t  look like Microsoft really cares about being the iPhone’s challenger. So any kind of clash between the Pink phones and the iPhone looks unlikely in the near future atleast. PEACE!

This means that in all there will be seven versions of the windows being launched. The news doing the round in the first half of the year was that Microsoft was likely to cut down on quite a few applications in its Windows 7 version for netbooks just because with the charge of the entire OS the pricing of the netbook would also rise to a totally new level.

What is left to be seen is how Microsoft manages to adjust the Windows 7 pricing when it comes to the netbooks. However there is pressure being applied by Intel and the Original design manufacturers who build the machines and are in a tizzy over the fact that the machines would be considered inferior if the functionality is reduced. So let’s just wait n watch as to what trick Microsoft comes up with to solve this conundrum.

A Microsoft representative stated that the offer was designed specifically for those students who won’t be going in for new PC’s or laptops this year but would like to have the advantage of using the new windows7. The students who order the new software from the 1st of October will be able to download it on or after the 22nd October when it is officially launched to the public. But to avail of this deal, a valid, college e-mail address is required.

Similar plans are to be announced in Canada, Germany, Australia, Korea, Mexico and France, although the prices for which the windows 7 may retail will vary from country to country. Most of the offer validity also varies, for most countries it will be available till Jan 3rd while in countries like Australia the offer will be valid all the way through March.

The offer was publicized on a Microsoft fan site Neowin.

However, most of the users wouldn’t even notice the change in the version because Google automatically updates the browser. Though most of us would agree that its one of the fastest browsers available today, with the Chrome 3.0 its performance has improved more with Google claiming to improve the Javascripts by about 150% since the launch of the original Beta version.

Following Microsoft, Chrome supports themes as well now. So you could change the themes everyday by selecting from one of the 28 available themes. Also continuing with the visual tweaks, the new tab section can be easily customized now and has also got a nice sleek look.

This one also supports HTML 5 video and audio tags which means that the user can now easily embed videos without having to download plugins like the Adobe flash player. With around 3505 bugfixes since the beta release it looks like Chrome is surely trying to be the best browser around or may be with this one it already is…

The Apple’s site still has the 160GB model listed and also it offers a new software upgrade to its users. With the help of this software, the users can create movie wish lists and watch their favourite regional movies with subtitles. This software can be checked for by the Apple TV and it will download it automatically.

However Apple has always maintained that the combined category of TV and media players is still a hobby. Also this combined genre faces tough competition from the cable set boxes and according to most analysts Apple is going through the same phase as Microsoft went through once upon a time with its Windows Media Center.

Talking about the media extender category Rob Enderle chief analyst at Enderle group added that most of the companies who have tried their hands out at this category have mostly failed because when there are cable set top boxes the use of the media extenders becomes almost redundant. He also added that except for the Microsooft Xbox none of the other manufacturers were actually successful and also the success of the Xbox was largely due to its gaming component.

However when asked if Apple could succeed in making the Apple TV consumer friendly, Enderle answered saying that Apple has probably done the best job so far as far as media extenders are concerned.

Supposing you want to search for the variety of flowers then it pops up the images of the various flowers and all you have to do is click on the picture and view the related details. When you move the cursor over the image the name of the flower gets flashed into the search box. Also the image results can be sorted according to size, colour and bing popularity.

The database has loads and loads of such image galleries which have been categorically arranged. According to the type of search the sorting categories also change. So incase you want to browse through cars then the sorting would take place according to release date, company etc.

This visual search engine makes use of the Silverlight technology because of which the animations get better and the visual rendering is also made possible.

The aim of this new graphic search engine is to change the way the world searches for online information. And according to Mr.Yusuf Mehdi, this one is surely going to be revolutionary.

Even when the Zune HD was not even named there were rumours that the new hardware would be international. But looking at the way things are taking shape at the moment, that seems unlikely. For those with a strong memory the older zune didn’t see a launch beyond Canada which took place almost two years after its launch in the U.S.

Well, the only reason I see behind this is that probably the people at Microsoft want to test the Zune on a small ground and then take the launch ahead if it is successful. Well all I hope is that this one does well, and we get to see an overseas launch soon.