CeBIT 2011, the world's largest computer expo (1/3/2011 - 5/3/2011), CeBIT mean

CeBIT (World Center for Office, Information and Communications Technology).  German (Centrum für Büroautomation, Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation). Lit. (Center for Office Automation, Information Technology and Telecommunication) is the world's largest computer expo. It is held each year on the world's largest fairground in Hanover, Germany, and is a barometer of the state of the art in information technology.

With an exhibition area of roughly 450,000 m² (5 million ft²) and up to 700,000 visitors, it is larger than COMPUTEX and the no-longer held COMDEX.
- By 2007 the CeBIT expo attendance had shrunk to 'more than 200,000' from those all-time highs, it was held from 15 March to 21 March 2007.
- The 2008 expo dates were 4 March to 9 March 2008, with a notable event being the police raids of 51 exhibitors for patent infringement, something that is traditionally not a criminal matter in most jurisdictions, and is likely to further affect attendance figures in the future. The CeBIT is organized by Deutsche Messe AG.
- The 2010 expo was held from 2 to 6 March 2010
- The 2011 dates will be from 1 to 5 March at Hanover, Germany.
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What does CES (Consumer Electronics Show) stand for?

The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a major technology-related trade show held each January in the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada. Not open to the public, the Consumer Electronics Association-sponsored show typically hosts previews of products and new product announcements. CES rose to prominence after COMDEX was canceled.

The first CES was held in June 1967 in New York, New York. It was a spinoff from the Chicago Music Show, which until then had served as the main event for exhibiting consumer electronics. The event had 17,500 attendees and over 100 exhibitors; the kickoff speaker was Motorola chairman Bob Galvin.From 1978 to 1994, CES was held twice each year: once in January in Las Vegas known as Winter Consumer Electronics Show (WCES) and once in June in Chicago, Illinois, known as Summer Consumer Electronics Show (SCES).

The winter show was successfully held in Las Vegas in 1995 as planned. However, since the summer Chicago shows were beginning to lose popularity, the organizers decided to experiment by having the show travel around to different cities starting in 1995 with a planned show in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. However, the inaugural E3 gaming show was scheduled to be held on the West Coast that same weekend and many exhibitors protested, causing the Philly Summer CES show to be cancelled. The 1996 Winter show was again held in Las Vegas in January, followed by a Summer show this time in Orlando, Florida, however only a fraction of the traditional exhibitors participated. Again, the 1997 Winter show in Las Vegas was very successful. The next "Summer" show was scheduled to be held in conjunction with Spring COMDEX in Atlanta, Georgia, however when only two dozen-or-so exhibitors signed on, the CES portion of the show was cancelled.

In 1998, the show changed to a once-a-year format with Las Vegas as the location. In Las Vegas, the show is one of the largest (the other being CONEXPO-CON/AGG), taking up to 18 days to set up, run and break down.

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As of today, true nerds, geeks, and Internet trolls can perform their Googling tasks straight from their Terminal window with a new program called GoogleCL. The GoogleCL tool can be used for your Blogger, Calendar, Contacts, Docs, Picasa, and YouTube and is supported by Windows, Linux, and Mac.

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During Microsoft's fiscal third quarter, which ended March 31, the Online Services Division, or OSD, reported a 12 percent increase in revenue, which rose to US$566 million on the back of higher advertising revenue. That wasn't enough to offset a surge in operating expenses during the period. The division's quarterly loss grew by 73 percent to $713 million, compared to a loss of $411 million during the same period last year.

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Billions of Twitter posts will no longer fade into obscurity now that Google is indexing them all in a massive, searchable database.
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Google has a bold strategy to tackle Android's biggest problem: that the OS is available in too many versions, spread across a range of devices. In a bid to end the fragmentation, Google will attempt to carve major features out of the OS into downloadable updates, according to Engadget .

The Android army is not equal - it has four different OS versions (1.5, 1.6, 2.0 and 2.1) spread across around 20 devices, and some phones that are not even available yet (such as Sony Ericsson's Xperia range) will come with outdated versions of Android. That's confusing for consumers, and it seems Google got the message.

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Mobile carrier app stores are a long way from dead. Despite the fanfare around application stores tied to specific mobile devices such as iPhones and BlackBerries, a new Nielsen survey finds ongoing loyalty to carrier stores.  As of the end of 2009, half of all applications users were accessing carrier app stores according to Nielsen’s new App Playbook.

That said, the Apple App Store was the clear leader in preferred application stores in the United States and, combined with the dedicated AT&T Application Store, devices running on the AT&T network have the most popular stores.

The relatively new BlackBerry App World Store was the second most popular app store due to BlackBerry’s industry-leading installed base.

Carrier application stores come in next on the rankings due to the size of their subscriber base, suggesting users of more standard feature phones drove much of this ongoing popularity.

Nielsen’s App Playbook  surveys more than 4,000 application downloaders in the United States every six months about their mobile application usage. It allows companies in the mobile ecosphere to monitor the transition and growth of the application market as mobile users shift from feature phones to smartphones.

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HTC CEO confirms Windows Phone 7 device for late 2010

HTC CEO Peter Chou confirmed taht HTC intend to release a Windows Phone 7 series device by the end of this year. This statement ends the speculations that HTC may drop the new OS until Microsoft permit custom UIs.

As you already know, Microsoft have very strict rules for what goes and what doesn't on their new Windows Phone 7 OS and for one, home-brewed user interfaces are forbidden. No manufacturer will have the right to customize the Windows Phone 7 in any way so Microsoft can deliver uniform user experience throughout various devices.

 

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Meet PlayStation Move, Sony's PS3 Motion Controller

Sony's upcoming motion controller finally has a name--the PlayStation Move--and it looks like a pair of aircraft traffic wands with glowing blue and pink bulbs on the ends. The company announced the name during the 2010 Games Developer Conference before proceeding to demonstrate several games and inviting attendees to give the technology a spin for themselves.

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