VIA Receives Certification for USB 3.0 to SATA Bridge Chip

VIA earlier this week said its VL701 low power USB 3.0 to SATA bridge controller has been certified by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF). This makes VIA the first and only company to achieve USB-IF bus-powered certification using a traditional hard drive, which draws more power than flash-based drives. VIA’s SATA bridge will allow users to connect any SATA hard drive, SSD, or optical drive to their PC using a USB 3.0 port.

“The VL701 is an advanced, highly-integrated USB 3.0 to SATA Bridge that lets users experience the benefits of USB 3.0 using hard drives, optical drives, and even SSDs,” said David Hsu, Associate Vice President, VIA Labs, Inc. “The low power aspect is compelling for both end-users and manufacturers by enabling lower operating temperatures and longer battery life without sacrificing performance.”

The VL701 adapter is a single-chip solution and the industry’s first to feature a fully integrated 5V switching regulator. It’s based on the design of VIA’s previous VL700 controller, and according to VIA, the revised controller is now shipping with pricing available upon request.

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BitTorrent’s Chrysalis Beta Lets You Keep It in the Family

Limewire may have fallen, but BitTorrent keeps on swinging. On Thursday the BitTorrent blog announced the beta release of Chrysalis, the newest iteration of the BitTorrent software, designed to make it easier than ever before to share… erm, Linux distros with all your techie friends.

The beta version expands on the alpha version by including new “Premium Content Channels” that let you invite specific people to share your collection. The blog says it’s perfect for hi-res home movies. The blog studiously avoids saying it’s perfect for sharing hi-res Blu-Ray movies.

It sounds pretty simple, actually: after clicking the “Premium Channel” icon, a wizard helps you set up your channel and upload the files you want to share. Clicking on the channel lets you invite your friends via email, social media or a clickable URL. Your buddies get an invitation and a prompt to download Chrysalis if they haven’t done so already.

There aren’t any file size limits during the testing phases, and you can create a “virtually unlimited” number of channels – meaning you can keep your girlfriend out your “Anime Girls” channel and keep the Anime Girls out of your “Crochet Techniques” videos. Sounds good to us.

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Twitter: We’re Experiencing Site Stability Issues

Egads! Friday the 13th’s evil mojo is proving a menace for microblogging loud mouths who feel compelled to tell the world what they just ate for lunch or, unadvisedly, who they just murdered and where they hid the body (we’ll stick to using it for posting article links and contest announcements). Casual users probably didn’t notice that something’s awry, but if you stay connected to Twitter throughout the day, expect intermittent hiccups.

“We are currently experiencing site stability issues,” Twitter is telling its users. “There may be intermittent issues loading twitter.com and Twitter clients. We’re working to fix it as soon as possible.”

And that’s all Twitter wrote. It’s unknown what’s causing all the trouble, though as one online door closes (or gets jammed up every once in awhile), another swings wide open. Google today managed to get its Blogger Buzz site back up and running after scheduled maintenance work turned into an extended dark period because of an unexpected data corruption bug.

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Adobe Releases Flash Player 10.3, Solves the ‘Flash Problem’

Adobe has announced the release of Flash Player 10.3 for Android, Linux, MacOS, and Windows. The latest stable release of Adobe’s ubiquitous plugin packs a bunch of new features and security enhancements. But its most notable user-facing feature is the ability to clear hitherto hard-to-delete Flash cookies, or local shared objects (LSOs) as they are formally known, from the comfort of the web browser’s privacy settings.

Till now, there was no way of slaying Flash cookies alongside normal web cookies from within the browser’s privacy settings. Although there has been an option for clearing Flash cookies separately, it is far from convenient.

At the heart of this LSO-deletion mechanism is a new browser API. Called NPAPI ClearSiteData and developed by Adobe in conjunction with browser vendors like Google and Mozilla, it also makes it easier to delete locally stored data belonging to all such third-party web apps and plugins that use it.

Flash LSOs have been viewed as a major privacy concern due to their usefulness in tracking online user behavior and the lack of awareness about them.Last year, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz referred to the privacy risk posed by LSOs as “the Flash problem.”

“Flash Player 10.3 enables local storage clearing within browsers’ privacy settings and streamlines the controls of the Flash Player privacy, security and storage settings within the local control panel of desktop OSes,” the company wrote in a blog post.

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Blogger is Back, Missing Content to be Restored

gloggerGoogle’s Blogger is one of the most popular blogging platforms out there. As such, the cries of rage were almost audible on the Internet when the service went down Wednesday. Earlier today, service was finally restored. All told, Blogger was down for nearly 21 hours. Google is offering details on the Blogger blog.

Basically, Google was doing regular maintenance on Wednesday night, when the Blogger data became corrupted for some reason. We suspect someone spilled some Coke on the server, but that’s just a guess. The result was inaccessible sites, missing content, and account errors. The service was brought back up on Thursday as read-only, and with some missing content.

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Microsoft Updates Office Web Apps with Useful Features

Microsoft recently updated its Office Web Apps online productivity suite to add a few useful features. The service update, which was announced by the Office Web Apps team on its official blog on Wednesday, only concerns the Excel and PowerPoint Web Apps.

The Excel Web App is the larger beneficiary of this system update. The browser-based version of Microsoft’s popular spreadsheet application now allows users to “insert, delete or rename sheets in a workbook within the Excel Web Apps, and use familiar tools like AutoSum and formula assistance to crunch data more efficiently.”

The other beneficiary of this update, the PowerPoint Web App, has only received one new feature. It is now possible to change the theme of a PowerPoint presentation at any time. There are 45 professionally designed themes to choose from.

“Back in early March, we announced Office Web Apps (on Windows Live SkyDrive and Hotmail) had become available in more than 190 countries,” wrote the Microsoft Office Web Apps team in a blog post.

“As more people are trying Web Apps and providing feedback on their experiences, we’re committed to making continuous improvements that help our customers be more productive across the PC, Mac, phone and Web browser.”

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Samsung demos retina resolution 300dpi tablet display


Samsung has a new 10.1-inch “retina” resolution LCD panel ready to show off next week. It will demonstrate the 2560 x 1600 panel at the SID Display Week 2011 International Symposium starting Tuesday May 17th. And if you weren’t already thinking it—yes, this is perfect for tablets.

The panel has a resolution of 300dpi, the same as that of print, and the number Apple uses to define its Retina displays. In most uses, the pixels disappear and it appears that you are looking at a printed page.

Samsung’s new panel is interesting for two reasons. First is that it uses PenTile RGBW tech. PenTile is a way of grouping subpixels—each multicolor “pixel” on a screen is made up of several smaller single-color dots. In the case of PenTile, there are five dots (hence the “pent” or “penta” part of the name). The RGBW part means that an extra white pixel is added to the usual red, green and blue ones.

This white pixel works in conjunction with a variable, locally dimming backlight. This ramps up when bright colors are needed, but when colors are desaturated or just black and white, the backlight dims and only the white pixel is switched on. This reduces power consumption by a claimed 40 percent vs. a regular RGB stripe panel.

And that power reduction is the key to its use in tablets. The biggest draw on tablet battery power is the screen. Until a panel exists that can deliver the same battery life as today’s tablets, we won’t see a Retina display in the iPad. Of course, driving all of those extra pixels is also extra work (4x) for the graphics chips, but that’s another problem.

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