1）据《华尔街日报》报道，宏碁计划在2013年推出售价仅99美元的平板电脑。

这款7英寸设备将运行Android操作系统（4.1版本），据宏碁为将其命名为Iconia B1，主要瞄准发展中国家的市场，目前尚不知是否将投放美国市场。

Acer-Iconia-B1-Tablet(from tecgossip.com)

2）据The Next Web报道，Facebook日前推出的Poke应用仅上线一天就晋升至苹果App Store榜首。在此之前谷歌应用Google Maps也是该榜单过去几周的冠军。

值得注意的是，在该榜单登顶的通常是游戏应用，像Poke和Google Maps这种实用或社交应用登顶的情况则较为罕见。

poke(from onsoftware.en.softonic.com)

3）据venturebeat报道，微软游戏工作室You vs the Internet最近向App Store发布首款带有Xbox成就系统的iOS游戏《Wordament》。

《Wordament》是一款即时竞争型找字游戏，玩家需在4*4网格的字母中找出单词，在为时两分钟的迷你竞赛中与全球玩家挑战，找到最佳词语。玩家下载了这款应用后，可以通过自己的Xbox或者Hotmail、SkyDrive、Windows帐号登录并开始玩游戏。如果使用Xbox帐号就可以通过10个游戏成就中赢取多达50个的积分，并且还可以同自己的Xbox好友互动。

Wordament(from kotaku.com.au)

4）Juniper Research最新报告预测了2013年科技行业将出现的十大趋势：

1.数据消费将发展成为一个重大产业；

2.智能眼镜等产品（例如谷歌的Project Glass）将在2013年公布；

Brin_glasses_Thomas_Hawk(from news.cnet.com)

3.BYOD（带你自己的计算机上班）趋势上升，信息安全问题再度升级；

4.零售商将采用商店内置移动策略（例如QR码等）；

5.运营商采用无缝隙的Wi-Fi和LTE网络技术；

6.移动平台成为科技和媒体内容的网络中心；

7.微软（Windows Phone 8）产品备受瞩目；

8.多屏幕、无缝隙的用户体验成为现实；

9.出现新的移动设备和平板电脑规格；

10.社交游戏呈向上发展趋势。

5）在本周MAU增长最快的Facebook游戏榜单上，城建游戏《Megapolis》位居榜首，新增80万MAU，增幅为62%；Social Point游戏《Dragon City》新增40万MAU，增幅2%；Nordeus游戏《Top Eleven-Be a Football Manager》位居第三，新增30万MAU，增幅为4%；King.com游戏《Candy Crush Saga》新增30万MAU，增幅为1%；Emagist Entertainment游戏《Ninja Saga》新增20万MAU，增幅为6%。

Top gainers this week-MAU(from AppData)

Zynga游戏《CoasterVille》新增16万MAU，增幅为267%；Playdemic游戏《Village Life》新增10万MAU，增幅为59%。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，拒绝任何不保留版权的转载，如需转载请联系：游戏邦）

1）Acer may launch $99 Android tablet in early 2013

Jolie O’Dell

Acer is planning to launch a $99 tablet in the beginning of next year, according to anonymous sources for the Wall Street Journal.

The seven-inch device will run the Android operating system (version 4.1, a.k.a. Jelly Bean) and will reportedly be called the Iconia B1.

However, part of the low sticker price is the marketing plan: Acer wants to aim this device at developing markets. It’s unknown whether we’ll see it in the U.S. — particularly at that price.

Seven-inch tablets have been all over the place lately, and they range in both price point and functionality. On one end, you have Amazon’s Kindle Fire, hugely popular at around $160. And Google’s just-launched Nexus 7 is selling online from around $200 to $330 or so.

And then, there’s the iPad mini, the debutante of the fall, weighing in at $400 to just under $700.

“In the past few months, we’ve made project roadmap changes in response to big changes in the tablet market,” said the WSJ’s anonymous source close to the project.

“The launch of the Nexus 10 [$500 and up online] has changed the outlook for what makes competitive pricing.”（source：venturebeat）

2）It’s A Facebook And Google World On Apple’s App Store, Poke Hits #1 A Day After Its Release

Drew Olanoff

Saturday, December 22nd, 2012CommentsRemember all of this excitement hoopla over Facebook’s latest standalone app, Poke, yesterday? You aren’t the only one that is interested, apparently.

As The Next Web reports, Poke by Facebook has hit the No. 1 free app spot on Apple’s App Store, just a day after being released.

Make no mistake about it, the big companies like Facebook and Google are going to have the best holiday season ever thanks to Apple and iOS. It’s very rare to see utility or social apps hold the top free app spot like Google Maps has over the past week, and like Facebook Poke probably will. It’s usually a game, or a boogers app that holds that down.

And they get massive downloads because of it, especially during this time of the year.

What does this mean for consumers…and for Apple? Most iOS users who are getting new devices, or even first-timers, are swayed by what’s hot on the App Store. The leaderboard is very important to onboard new users into the app ecosystem. Apple likes to highlight the best and brightest that shows off their technology, but the leaderboard shows what users are really interested in. Today, it’s all about Poke.

When Facebook said it was focusing on mobile, it wasn’t kidding. Holding the No. 1 free app spot is like having the biggest kiosk in a mall during the biggest rush of the year. This type of crowding from big companies isn’t what the App Store has seen over the years, as we usually have a big game launch right around Christmas, thus ruling the charts since Apple freezes new submissions and releases during the holidays.

Note that Snapchat is holding the No. 9 spot, and is clearly slipping in popularity, and Google is sitting pretty at both No. 2 (Maps) and No. 5 (YouTube). Even Pinger’s free texting and calling app is right up there at No. 6.

It’s also important to note that the new “hot” apps tend to surge up to the top quickly, as Poke clearly has, but remaining there for more than a few days is a real feat. Can Facebook do it? Let’s see as all of those new iPads, iPhones, Touches and iPad minis get opened next week. Also, having a billion users surely doesn’t hurt your distribution and marketing efforts.（source：techcrunch）

3）Microsoft launches first game for iPhone, iPad with Xbox Achievements

John Koetsier

In an extension of the Xbox gaming ecosystem to iOS, Microsoft game studio You vs the Internet has launched Wordament, the first-ever game for iOS with Xbox Achievements, on the Apple app store.

Wordament is a real-time competitive word-finding game. Players find and trace out words in 4 x 4 tiles of letters, competing globally with other players for the most and best words in two-minute mini tournaments.

This is Microsoft’s first foray into extending its game universe on to Apple mobile operating system. Once users download and install the app, they can sign in to their Xbox account — or any Hotmail, SkyDrive, or Windows  account — and start playing. Using your Xbox account will help you earn up to 50 Gamerscore from 10 in-game achievements, and will give you access to your Xbox friends.

Apple, of course, has set up its own gaming hub for iOS for friends, achievements, and leaderboards, called Game Center. Launched in 2010, it still has not really found its way — with industry experts calling it “years behind industry standards,” and an outage a month ago hardly drew any notice.

So extending the Xbox gaming ecosystem to iOS is an interesting move by Microsoft. Realistically, of course, for now it is simply a toe in the water, from which Microsoft will gather data, gauge interest, and plan next moves.

Regarding the game itself, it’s the same game that is already available on Windows Phone and Windows 8, accessing the same game servers, and featuring the same players. Wordament is available for English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish, with puzzles in five more languages.（source：venturebeat）

4）Juniper makes top ten predictions for 2013: Data becomes big business

by Zen Terrelonge

Juniper Research has produced numerous reports across the mobile market this year, exploring augmented reality, VoIP usage, roaming, gambling and more.

And in the first of a series of predictions for 2013 from industry specialists, Juniper has submitted its thoughts about what we can expect from the year ahead – top ten below.

1. Big data consumption to become big business

2. Smart glasses & other wearables (such as Google’s Project Glass) will make 2013, the year of ‘announcements’

3. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend on the rise, as security issues escalate

4. Retailers to embrace the in-store mobile strategy (QR codes et al)

5. Operators to adopt seamless wi-fi and LTE connectivity

6. Mobile becomes the connectivity hub for tech and media usage

7. The year of Microsoft (Windows Phone 8 adoption)

8. The multi-screen, seamless user experience becomes a reality

9. New mobile and tablet form factors to emerge

10. Social gaming is on the rise（source：mobile-ent）

5）Megapolis the fastest-growing Facebook game by MAU, just in time for Christmas

Mike Thompson

This week’s fastest-growing Facebook game by monthly active user was the citybuilder Megapolis, which took in 800,000 MAU for a 62 percent gain this week.

Social Point’s Dragon City was up by 400,000 MAU, a 2 percent gain that let it snag the No. 2 spot. Nordeus’s Top Eleven- Be a Football Manager came in at No. 3 with 300,000 MAU for a 4 percent gain. King.com’s Candy Crush Saga is also continuing to dominate the games scene on Facebook with 300,000 MAU, a 1 percent gain that let it take the No. 4 position. Emagist Entertainment’s Ninja Saga reappears on our gainers list with 200,000 MAU, a 6 percent increase that snagged the No. 5 spot.（source：insidesocialgames）