According to report that earlier this week, the folks at OLPC unveiled their brand new XO 3, a tablet aimed at children in the developing world. However, OLPC isn’t the only company working the low-cost educational PC market. This week at CES, Lenovo unveiled its new Classmate+ laptop and convertible notebooks, which promise to be even more rugged and affordable than the last Classmate PC while providing longer battery life and improved ease of use.

Based on Intel’s N2600 Atom CPU (which just started shipping last month), the Classmate+ features a 10.1-inch anti-glare screen (with touch capability on the convertible model) as well as optional high-brightness or HD on both, as well as the option for a capacitive touch screen with a pen stylus on the convertible version. It boasts up to 2 GB DDR3 memory and up to 320 GB in HDD storage. Solid State storage is also available, up to 32 GB of it, and the whole thing runs on a 6-cell battery that provides a maximum 10 hours of usage.

If that wasn’t enough, you’ve also got three USB ports, VGA, and an optional HDMI port for transferring data and outputting standard and high definition video to an external display. As for that extra-ruggedness we were promised, the Classmate+ keyboard packs enhanced water resistance, as well as a tougher corner design, a reinforced steel hinge and a strengthened DC jack.

“As the world’s #1 PC maker in education, we’re committed to enhancing learning via our platform of PC solutions designed for students,” Michael Schmedlen, director of worldwide education at Lenovo, said in a statement. “By joining with Intel to create the new Lenovo Classmate+ Clamshell and Classmate+ Convertible laptops, we’re demonstrating how mobile computing fits into any learning environment, no matter the location or budget.”

The price of the Lenovo Classmate+ laptop and convertible laptop will vary depending on the individual market’s taxes, tariffs, and configuration options, but it’s available this month for governments and qualifying educational institutions.

Acer in Las Vegas in the United States of new product display, in addition to Ultrabook pen electricity and acer clouds technology (AcerCloud) outside, also published three of new flat computer and 2 of intelligent mobile phone, in order to show acer in the field of the results, and the continuous development of introducing new products of the action.

Acer the display of the 3 kinds to flat computer, according to the different models have their special features, including have 1920 x1200 resolution, suitable for high ornamental 1080 p Full HD movies, photos and reading ebooks model; And emphasize the battery is long and the expansion of strong effect of the model.

These new tablet computer screen resolution, better battery performance dramatically than ever before, the more frivolous, the operation is convenient, and hold four core CPU, a new generation of operating system, and provide Wifi and 3 G two versions.

In the new published two of intelligent mobile phone, listing the characteristics include can have better video and audio, provide the user more pleasant high-quality multimedia feeling; Can wireless link printer and the projector, play more convenient action effectiveness; In addition, also carry acer clouds technology application.

Acer, the company said it show flat computer and intelligent mobile phone’s latest lineup, shows that the company’s research and development ability and speed. In the future, acer will practical development in this field, focus on strategy, in view of the needs of the consumers, roll out more competitive products.

Microsoft said on Thursday that it signed a patent agreement with South Korea-based LG Electronics that will allow the latter company to use Android and Chrome OS on tablets, mobile phones and other consumer devices in exchange for paying Microsoft’s licensing fees. As of this writing, the financial details of the agreement were not revealed.

LG is one of many companies that have seemingly been pushed (bullied) into signing a licensing agreement with Microsoft to use Android and Chrome OS, an agreement based on claims that certain aspects of Google’s open-source operating systems violate the Redmond company’s patents. And now, thanks to LG’s signature on the dotted line, more than 70-percent of all Android smartphones sold in the U.S. are now receiving coverage under Microsoft’s super-sized patent portfolio.

“We are pleased to have built upon our longstanding relationship with LG to reach a mutually beneficial agreement,” said Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel, Intellectual Property Group at Microsoft. “We are proud of the continued success of our program in resolving the IP issues surrounding Android and Chrome OS.”

In addition to Android and Chrome OS, Microsoft has also previously sought out licensing agreements with vendors that use Linux on their products (which is technically the foundation of Android and Chrome OS anyway).

Microsoft launched its IP licensing program back in December 2003, and has since entered into more than 1,100 licensing agreements. The company said that it continues to develop programs that make it possible for customers, partners and competitors to access its IP portfolio. The program itself was developed to open access to Microsoft’s “significant R&D investments and its growing, broad patent and IP portfolio.”

Thursday’s announcement in regards to LG signals that the company may be working on Chrome OS notebook or tablet. As of this writing, LG hasn’t revealed anything, and a Chrome OS device was not on display at the CES 2012 tradeshow this week. That said, we’ll have to keep a close eye on this little sliver of information and see if it comes to anything.

Microsoft executives on Thursday suggested that, a new generation of Windows 8 (hereinafter referred to as “Win8″) operating system will be released in October of this year.

Microsoft Windows business group public relations executive Janelle Poole to Win8 system in short demonstration of the new system when spoke about the release schedule.

“We generally will not discuss specific release date, but we discuss (representative Win8 the development process) milestone, so now we are going to discuss the next milestone will be held by the end of February the consumer preview.” S&p said.

“But I think a very good guidance is forecast, we have always said Windows about every three years will be a major release, October this year is exactly the Windows 7 release 3 anniversary, so it is a worthy of consideration guiding time.” S&p then said.

This is Microsoft executives for Win8 release time of the most strongly suggests that, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last may in Microsoft developers BBS, said Win8 will release this year. “Win8 will be released in the next year, we are looking forward to, there will be a lot of new features appear.” Ballmer said.

Acer WangZhenTang CEO in Las Vegas on exhibition of consumption acer conference said, Win8 will be released later this year. “The current generation Windows system in the second half of this year after release, we will launch a wave of Ultrabook products.” WangZhenTang said.

In the ten years most of the time, and in the previous international consumer electronics show (CES), each lecture, each a solo exhibition seats were only one purpose: to create ecological system, encourage consumers into the group. Year after year, a speech and a speech, someone stand up to show you how the phone and refrigerator connection, refrigerator and what and TV connection. But year after year, they failed.

Until now, samsung and other producers finally succeeded. In the past few years, apple in the media sharing and remote control aspects of these manufacturers surrounded by offensive formation. Obviously, apple system is limited to iPod/iTunes/iPad/Mac, but as the white goods and mobile products mainly producers of samsung now could have it all.

First of all, number can illustrate this point. Samsung for year keep TV sales in the first, November sold per second about 2 TV set. Despite previously sold a minority of TV is samsung called intelligent TV, but by 2012, samsung all new TV will be no box of interactive TV, it shows some meaning. First of all, this means that Google and apple face trouble. Samsung sold per two television, it definitely is beyond Google platform to any performance. More important, samsung media transmission in the family living room in than apple has the lead.

Second, samsung mobile phone sales in also lead. When many people think that samsung is only good at imitating when, in 2011, the company sold 60 million mobile phones and not lucky. It is not about Android, iOS or Windows Phone operation system, this is about samsung production and sales to innumerable numerous mobile-phone consumers. Samsung value is profit, the company is willing to use any operating system, as long as the operating system can the phones in the packing box, then the shopping bag packing into consumers.

Thus we can see, samsung is the world’s largest mobile phone and TV makers. In addition, samsung also produce tablet computer, washing machines and provide software, to form a real, energetic ecological system. The next year, many manufacturers association to streaming media into family, but already in this aspect of the manufacturers will eventually win out.

In the iPod before launch, although MP3 music player market has many producers, but no one really made his mark. The market size is very small. At present, the market has emerged the next generation of television. When people begin to understand the fourth generation of samsung the value of the intelligent TV, to tell you the truth, all the big manufacturers launched the most early intelligent TV is very bad. Consumers will see TV manufacturers happy every year will launch the extra upgrade package, in order to improve the processing power and provide additional functions.

Obviously, these new TV is consumer electronic products, few upgrades, almost is never out of season. Until the children want to see the home version of the Walt Disney cartoon or hd people oneself want to see 3 D version TV, TV upgrade market demand will produce. This is why apple never launched the cause of the TV, because the market do not need the company launched a new TV every year.

Samsung’s success is not in the bag. Existing manufacturers have been almost can’t in the apple design team brings the innovation wave of live. If apple introduced intelligent TV, the samsung all efforts may be the retina display screen will be apple technology, built-in coffee machine forgotten. But, if samsung mobile phones and tablet computers can and samsung smartphones and samsung submersible interaction, when faced with the consumer of multiple choice, consumers may choose to stay in the same ecological system inside.

Apple may also do that, and they are trying to. Samsung is responsible for TV manufacturing, responsible for all accessories production, including display screen, circuit board and housing. And apple will put products manufacturing outsourcing, not in price competition and samsung, especially apples are from samsung aspects buy flat. Apple in this race if you can beat the other consumer electronics manufacturers? The answer is no doubt for sure. But samsung, SONY and LG have a lot of time with two per second the speed of the sales, apple will need to make great efforts to catch up with them.