CES 2012 – Several big themes to focus on in the following days in Las Vegas

The International Consumer Electronics Show (short as CES) is a major technology-related trade show held each January in the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Not open to the public, the Consumer Electronics Association-sponsored show typically hosts previews of products and new product announcements. The CES 2012 exhibition, started today, will last from Tuesday, January 10 to Friday, January 13. Microsoft released an official statement saying that CES 2012 will be Microsoft’s last appearance at the event.

The ZDNet Blog writer has written a post on the themes of CES 2012, which focuses on the products that may appear in this year’s CES in Las Vegas. Check the following information to get to know the detailed content.

Summary: CES 2012 is upon us, and it’s time to get ready for a whole new year in gadgetry and other tech goodness.

The world’s largest tech trade show is just about to get underway, and even though there will be thousands upon thousands of products on display, many of them can be narrowed down and traced by a few major themes.

Yes, I’m talking about the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The scale of the show gets bigger each year, and there is just so much going on that it can becoming daunting (if not impossible) to stay focused and sift through everything.

Last year, many of the world’s biggest companies tended to focus on trends such as the Internet-connected living room (meaning, an ecosystem of home entertainment within a single brand), the dawn of 4G-enabled smartphones, and just about anything to do with 3D.

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We’ll likely see continuations of these themes next week, but here are some of the bigger themes to watch out more for this year:

TABLETS: We saw a bunch of these last year, but really none of the tablets that debuted at CES last year really made a dent in the market. The iPad 2 and the Kindle Fire, neither of which had even been announced prior or around CES 2011, were the real money-makers last year.

So why should we even care about tablets at CES 2012? Well, the technology for tablets (and smartphones, for that matter) has improved significantly, and one can only hope that manufacturers have learned a few lessons in the last year. Furthermore, with the debut of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) later in 2011, there’s definitely room for more potential.

ULTRABOOKS: Poised to replace netbooks and compete heavily with tablets and other laptops in the same size range, 2012 could be the year of the Ultrabook. Intel has already boasted a bunch that there are 60 Ultrabook designs with OEM partners set to roll out this year. Thus, you can expect everyone at CES to be promoting their own Ultrabook. It remains to be seen which ones will come out ahead — if any at all if these new laptops can overcome some hurdles.

WINDOWS 8: Supposedly, some Ultrabooks are supposed to be running on this operating system, so we should see more about its launch soon. That could be as soon as next week as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is lined up (once again) to give the main keynote address. Besides Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 itself is one of the only other big-ticket items that most consumers will likely be concerned with in 2012.  If not, expect him to talk about Kinect for another hour.

GREEN: Even though it seems like old news at this point, the eco-friendly trend is never going to go away and will likely always have a growing presence at CES and similar trade shows. In a way, that’s a good thing. While the upfront costs are still rather expensive for most products that tout this facet, green technology has the potential to save a lot of money in the long run, and the more that developers keep this in mind, those upfront costs will eventually drop.

What not to look for? Apple or Google. These two prefer to host their own events — Apple doesn’t even exhibit at Macworld anymore, and there is Google I/O later in springtime.

And if you’re a Microsoft fan, enjoy them at the show while you can as they’ll be gone by 2013.

Be sure to check out CES 2012 news hub as we’ll have full coverage and special reports live from the show floor in Las Vegas next week!

Source from: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/ces-2012-the-big-themes-to-look-for-next-week/66255?tag=nl.e539

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Windows Phone 7 Mango Build 7712 jailbreak and updated new features

Most Windows Phone 7 Mango 7661 users must have received the update news about the Mango Build 7712 version. Compared with the previous 7661 version, the new updated Mango Build 7712 mainly updates in fixing some bugs and upgrading a few mobile phone functions. The Mango Build 7712 is just a very simple and little update for Windows Phone 7 users. And in this post, I would like to share some Windows Phone 7 Mango Build 7712 jailbreak directions and the new updated mobile phone features with all of you guys.

I would firstly introduce the steps to update your Windows Phone 7 Mango 7661 to 7712. The premise of updating your Windows Phone 7 to 7712 version is that the existing mobile operation system is 7661 version. For users who would like to install jailbreak apps, please make sure you have made successful jailbreak. Taking Samsung Omnia 7 (i8700) as an example, when you connect your phone to your computer, Zune 4.8 would automatically remind you the available new update, click “Update Now” and wait for the update completed.

When the update is successful, your mobile would restart automatically and you would find your staring up logo of your mobile phone turns to red. After the update, your jailbreak would be default as ineffective. You need to restart them. Input “##634#” on the dialing interface to enter Service Menu and input “*#9908#” to enter GPRS Manager, then choose previous imported unlock configurations and click “Save” to restart jailbreaking.

After that, return to the main menu and select the previous installed Samsung Tools (if not able to enter this app, do the above settings again), and check all 4 options to confirm. When the prompt shows the mobile phone needs to restart, confirm that. Now, the jailbreak of your Windows Phone 7 Mango Build 7712 update has been jailbroke successfully.

Well, now, let’s take a look at what new updated features the Windows Phone 7 Mango Build 7712 brings. Firstly some major updates for some popular apps:

1. Twitter has been consolidated to the “What’s New Feeds”, with the instant upgrading notice showed in the big “Me” icon on the screen.

2. Five Hubs (People/Zune/Pictures/Zune/Marketplace hub) owns more vivid dynamic effects.

3. Visual Voicemail interface adjusted for more convenient use.

4. Supports to share Twitter page links through Twitter.

5. Multi-task Manager interface rolls fast with up to 5 apps available to start, not slowly rolling one by one, and less screen space required.

Other minor updates:

1. Consolidated LinkedIn.

2. Paste icon shows only content copied or cut in clipboard.

3. Copy and paste sounds better, like digital water-drop.

4. New Windows starting-up logo.

5. No square icon for People Hub in Groups.

6. In Music + Videos Hub, the random play button moved to the bottom and previous triangle icon changed to music marks, and the Marquee content has been arranged in alphabetical order.

7. In Bing Maps, Me button icon has been changed.

8. Optimized Bing Map search results.

9. When the text inputting jumps to a new paragraph, the first letter would be automatically capitalized.

To sum up, the Windows Phone 7 Mango Build 7712 mostly upgrades in minor functions, no new apps along. In the end, let’s watch the Build 7712 operation demo to get a close look:

Related readings:

How to Install Mango Build 7712 On Any Windows Phone 7 Device

How to rip DVD to WP 7 Mango phones to watch DVD movies on Mango phones

How to rip Blu-ray to WP 7 Mango phones to watch HD Blu ray on Mango phones

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New Windows Phone 7 Mango Specs: User friendly Custom ringtones are coming

It has been all known that the next generation of Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7 Mango, will come out this fall. Right yesterday, the Windows team blog released another great improvement of Windows Phone 7 Mango, which has settled the long anticipated custom ringtone problem. The upcoming Windows Phone 7 Mango would provide users with user-friendly ringtone customization function.

One possibility of this long expected upcoming function is that an additional option “Save as Ringtone” will be added for you to add your customized sound, audio or music, which would help you turn your customized files into a unique ringtone on Windows Phone 7 Mango. In Mango, any Marketplace app that revolves around sound or music—karaoke apps, sound effect apps, DJ apps, music instrument apps—potentially become a source of new custom ringtones for your phone.

Yet, the Mango will provide users the chance to customize ringtones with some restrictions, shows as bellow:

1. 39 seconds or shorter

2. Smaller than 1 megabyte (MB)

3. Saved in MP3 or WMA format

4. Not copy-protected (i.e. DRM free)

The detailed tutorial of how to do this would be out along with the street date of Windows Phone 7 Mango. For Zune users, when you have customized an audio file that meets the above conditions, just save it in the Genre of Ringtone and then you could sync your customized ringtone to the Windows Phone 7 Mango, showed in the bellow picture:

Besides the function of customizing ringtones in Windows Phone 7 Mango, it also provides some new native Microsoft ringtones for users.

Leawo DVD Ripper

Powerful yet easy to use DVD Converter that can freely rip DVD to videos and extract your favorite music out of DVD to create customized ringtones for Windows Phone 7 Mango to enjoy DVD musics on the go.

price: $29.95

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Top 10 New Features of Microsoft Mango OS – the Upgraded Version of Windows Phone 7

A new version of the Windows Phone operating system, called Microsoft Mango OS, isn’t too far off, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed. The new Windows Phone platform is said to be coming this autumn, filling in many of the missing pieces that made Microsoft an also-ran in the smartphone wars. Talking at a Tokyo press conference, Steve Ballmer said that the new OS “is now much more global” and would add “over 500 new features”.

Here is a rundown of the top 10 new features of Microsoft Mango OS:

Multitasking
Finally, Windows Phone apps will be able to run in the background, so if you’re listening to some tunes in Slacker Radio, the music will keep playing even as you switch to other apps. The multitasking menu is accessed by holding the “back” button on the phone’s hardware.

Consolidate Multi-channel Information

Mango is quite powerful in information integration which allows users to carry out communications among text information, FaceBook social chat and LiveMessenger, without activating the main service program for they will be in the same dialog box.

Local Scout

The function of Local Scout is similar to Bing “nearby”. It provides you with search information based on your location. To search results by clicking, it can also offer you with some related information and comments about the search results.

Internet Explorer 9

Microsoft’s revamped mobile browser brings support for HTML5, used on the mobile versions of video sites like YouTube and Vimeo. Speed is also improved, with Microsoft claiming that its browser loads pages faster than iPhone, Android and BlackBerry devices.

Contact Group

Got a group of friends that you stay in touch with? Windows Phone’s Mango update lets you throw them all into a single Live Tile, showing their latest e-mails, messages, status updates and photos. Through this tile, you can quickly fire off a message to the entire group.

Integrated Inbox

Integrated Inbox is a masterpiece from Microsoft development department, supporting to display emails from various email accounts within one inbox. Users can also get access to the historical mails through email server.

Personal Information Card

Within Mango, users can upgrade personal information to the latest social status and IM through Personal Information Card, without additional operations.

More Powerful Bing Search Function

Although the market share of Microsoft Bing Search cannot match with Google Search yet, it owns series of features which can satisfy the users to the utmost. Within the upgraded Bing Search, you can conduct searching by means of pictures or audios.

Smarter Tiles

Live Tiles are a big part of Windows Phones. With the Mango update, users will be able to control the types of information that third-party apps display through these tiles. For instance, you can bookmark a specific product in Best Buy’s app, and the Live Tile will tell you where to find that product nearby.

App Connect

App Connect function can be used in the third-party applications in search results. By inserting applications in Mango system to Bing search results seamlessly so as to provide users with quick service.

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Angry Birds is pushed back to land on Windows Phone 7 on June 29th

The landing time on Angry Birds game on Windows phone 7 platform was set to be May 25^th. And for some reasons, the company had to wait until the official release date was close to announce the delay, so it could be that the Angry Birds team, Rovio, was unsure of the delay until recent days. Now, Angry Birds is made clear to land on Windows Phone 7 platform on June 29^th, more than a month later.

It has been a long time for Angry Birds to land on Window Phone 7 platform, ever since February. However the cooperation between the Angry Birds team and Microsoft seems to be not as fluently as people anticipated. Until April, the official landing date was released. Now, the landing time has been delayed.  

Angry Birds is a cultural phenomenon of a game, with fanatic users cross a half-dozen platforms all around the world. Its entrance into the world of Windows Phone 7 has been hotly anticipated by both expectant users. Due to the delay, Windows Phone 7 users may have to wait for a little long time experience Angry Birds game on Windows Phones.

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