The new ultra slim book is a 13.3 master piece measuring 15 millimeters in thickness. The battery life is subsequent at 8 hours. The new Acer Aspire S5 Ultrabook will have a set of ports identical to a MacBook Air.

Although the new Iconia tablet had a brief introduction, it is believed to have a 1920×1200 screen resolution. Acer Cloud was another eye catcher which has been launched to counter the giants like and Apple iCloud. This feature can successfully sync photos, videos, music and documents across your devices.

Acer Cloud service may come in action by the second quarter of this year. Acer loyalists are eagerly awaiting this new service.

For those in late; International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is an event held every year in Las Vegas and an exhibition that showcases the finest electronic devices from various manufacturers across the globe. Most of the biggest brands look forward to demonstrate their new and upcoming devices at the CES. So, be it is a cell phone, tablet, television set or any other electronic gadget, International CES offers companies a lucrative platform to launch their forthcoming products.

According to LG, Google TV is designed for ease of use. It features the perfect combination of Magic Remote Qwerty, specially designed by LG along with a simplified Android-based user interface. Besides multi-tasking capabilities, the main screen and user interface offers convenient browsing and ease of content selection. To access the UI, you can either use a QWERTY keyboard or LG Magic Remote (Magic Remote Qwerty) offered by LG.

LG’s Android OS based Smart TV also features CINEMA 3D technology with FPR (Film Patterned Retarder) technology. This will allow consumers to experience 3D content using LG’s lightweight, comfortable and battery-free glasses. The first demonstration of LG’s Smart TV will take place at the CES Event on 9th January in Las Vegas. To know more, you can visit here.

While we are keeping a tab on the event, you can check the official video preview below.

The reason for the company’s happiness is the fact that they have been waiting to abandon the older versions and coax

users to upgrade to the latest versions which are IE8 or 9.

While one would have expected a pensive mood at the Microsoft headquarters, in contrast it was actually upbeat mainly because the usage of the product has dropped below 1 percent.

Microsoft has stated that they hope all developers and other IT professionals would understand that IE6 is now a ‘low’ priority browser and would be a waste of time to continue working on a browser that is as outdated.

United States has joined the likes of Poland, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway as well as Finland which already had a usage that was less than 1 percent.

Mr. Vinod Sawhney, CEO and Executive Director of  Beetle Teletech Ltd, who was present at the product launch said,

“The Magiq Glide is the latest addition to our successful Magiq range of tablets which has been highly appreciated by the Indian consumers. After an extensive market research and keeping in mind the feedback received from our customers on our previous products we have come up with the Magiq Glide. The new tablet has all the features available in our previous products which our customers liked and additionally we have added a capacitive touch screen to enrich the touch experience.”

Features for the Magiq Glide are listed below -

• 2.2 Android Froyo
• 7.0-inch WVGA screen8 GB internal memory (expandable upto 16GB)
• 2MP camera (front and rear)
• WiFi and 3G2
• 200 mAh battery support
• Enabled with a 1GHZ processor for faster processing speed
• SIM calling

Magiq has already launched Magiq and Magiq 2 tablets. This tablet is priced at Rs.11,999.

Twitter has also added 3 new buttons – Home, @Connect and #Discover, which can be seen at the top of the page. #

Discover shows the trending topics and directs you to notable videos and stories. On the other hand, @Connect displays people who have mentioned you in their tweets. It also suggests some accounts that you may want to follow.

Apart from the newly designed website, Twitter has also announced the launch of Facebook-style brand pages program. Launch partners for the brand pages include, Best buy, Chevrolet, Bing, American Express, Disney, Dell, Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, McDonald’s,  Nike, Kia, Staples, PepsiCo, JetBlue, NYSE Euronext, Verizon Wireless, Subway and Heineken. Paramount Pictures is also one of the launch partners, especially for the release of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.

With the introduction of brand pages, Twitter will allow advertisers to customize their headers to make their tagline and logo more prominent. According to the Advertising Blog of Twitter, brands will also be able to control the message that is visible to their visitors. The idea is, to allow brands   showcase their best content. The Promoted Tweet on the profile page of marketer will auto-expand, thus allowing visitors to see a video or photo content that is linked from a tweet.

Here is a video that describes the new features of redesigned Twitter.

The license agreement allows for the opening up of close to 800 FM Licenses. This makes it a great opportunity for new players to enter the market and for existing firms to grow their business.

The plan by the Government is called as the ‘Phase 3′ license auction. The auction is planed to generate revenue of close to $400 million for the Government. Phase 3 will take place at some time in the second half of 2012.

There are going to be significant changes under the new scheme. Firstly, the auction allows for 227 new cities to enter the market as compared to the current 86 cities. Firms are allowed to operate multiple stations in one market.

There have been several other changes as well. Some of the significant ones being the fact that the licenses for the radio stations have been extended to 15 years from the previous limit of 10 years. Permission will also be given to broadcast news bulletins on the stations and limits for foreign investments will be extended.

Earlier, Radio used to be the biggest form of media in India, but with the television boom, the radio industry had to take a backseat. Over the years, the television industry in India has developed significantly.

On the other hand, the radio industry has not been able to match the growth rate of TV. Though many private players have entered the radio sphere, there has hardly been an upheaval for Radio in India.

With the new development, many experts believe that the new rules will let private players come in the same league as the Government owned All India Radio (AIR) and they might even be able to provide tough competition to the TV industry.

‘Pre-Family Man study‘, as the market research was called, gathered relevant information from roughly 4,200 men from Singapore, India, Taiwan, China, Indonesia and Australia.

This is the first time that single men as a target audience has been studied in detail. It is an lucrative segment of the market as this segment is more inclined to buy digital products because of their higher purchasing power. The study was carried out with the help of Market research firm Synovate

Kenneth Andrew, the Marketing Director for Microsoft Advertising said,

“The pre-family men market has undeniable influence with 20 per cent of pre-family men being classified as innovators and early adopters. With the immense growth seen amongst this group, brands and marketers need to understand their value, and how they think at the different stages of their lives or their career. These insights will enhance marketers’ communication strategies, allowing for better engagement with this highly valuable segment”

According to the study, 40% of the single men use laptops for social networking and 35% use desktop PC’s. A mere 20% use their smartphones for using social networks.

When it comes to gaming, Smartphones take the cake with 56% of the target group using gaming apps on their phones. 35% people play games on home consoles while 33% play on portable consoles. Another important observation was that majority of the target group use laptops and PC’s for business over entertainment.

Jon Wright, Regional Director of Analytics for MEC said that the study was conducted to find out the type of devices that single men use and when, why and how they use them.

With Microsoft’s latest innovation, the Windows 8 coming up, this study might just help them in engaging better with the Asian Market.

The new version, which will be known as the App World 3.0 has a lot of changes when you compare it with earlier versions of the software. Apart from being faster, the entire look of App World has been changed.

In order to make the whole navigation experience easier, App World has introduced a new search bar which can be seen at the top of the screen. Applications can be filtered according to price, rating, latest releases etc on  the newly added widget.

Another major change that can be seen on the software is the introduction of various channels dividing the applications for easier downloading. Now, apps, games and themes have separate tabs which can make browsing easier and more specific.

A new feature called as MyWorld has also been introduced which helps users to keep track of their downloads and notifies them when an update is available for an app.

BlackBerry has added another option with which users can share apps via email, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

The new version will be available on BlackBerry OS 5.0 phones and other newer models. Current BlackBerry users will get notifications of the update in a couple of days.

With Apple’s iPad and iPhone taking a lion’s share in the market with their hugely popular App Store, this new attempt by BlackBerry has just made the war of the Apps more interesting.

CyanogenMod, a firm that creates specially designed versions of Android for portable devices has managed to run a version of the OS on the HP TouchPad.

A video posted by CyanogenMod on the Internet shows the Android 2.3 Gingerbread version on the  HP TouchPad. The experimental OS run was moderately successful as there was not touch screen functionality for the loaded OS. The software has to be run manually using a external remote console.

The team at CyanogenMod said in a letter posted on the RootzWiki website said that their next step will be to make the OS run with touch screen functions on the TouchPad.

“Our ultimate vision is to create a multiboot solution where the end user will be able to boot into Web OS, Cyanogenmod, and/or other Oses” read the letter by  CyanogenMod.

Though no release date of when this could be possible was given, the developers did mention that it would take a long while for its launch.

With tablet manufacturers trying hard to place their foot in the OS market, HP can take a big leap ahead in sales if the lucrative Android OS does make it to their TouchPad tablet.

Take a look at the video posted by  CyanogenMod to see how the OS runs on the TouchPad.

ChatON will be pre installed on the new Samsung smartphone models and can run on both Android as well as Samsung’s BADA mobile OS. Many of Samsung’s feature phones will be able to run the software as well. Apart from Samsung, the software will also be available for download on other mobile platforms like Apple iOS and RIM’s BlackBerry.

While the basic Samsung phones can also be able to use features like sharing texts and contacts, Smartphone users will be able to fully utilize the software with features like posting comments on friends profiles, keeping a check on friend’s IM histories, and creating multimedia messages.

”With ChatON, Samsung has vastly simplified mobile communication by allowing users to connect to our upcoming feature phones and all major smartphones in the market”,

said Ho Soo Lee, the Chief of Media Solution Center at Samsung Electronics.

The software will be available in more than 120 countries in various different languages. ChatON will make its official debut during the IFA conference which will be held in Berlin later this week. Initially to be launched on phones, the service will expand itself to tablets and PC’s eventually.