Microsoft officials have confirmed to Neowin that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will be hosting the Windows Phone Press Conference at Mobile World Congress 2010 next week.

The confirmation of Steve Ballmer’s attendance signals a significant product announcement next week in Barcelona. Neowin sources have confirmed that Ballmer will unveil Windows Mobile 7 which will include a Zune HD like interface codenamed “Metro”, Xbox and Bing intergration (including navigation), Zune music software and improved games support.

Sure mobile internet usage is on the rise, more & more people are getting connected on the move. But shockingly according to Statcounter it accounts for only 1.09% of the total internet usage. This shows that its only beginning for mobile internet, leaving endless possibilites open for the mobility power. The data from Continental Research breaks the population into rough categories: whether or not they are interested in technology, and whether or not they are interested in style. Considering just the former criterion:

TProfiler is a small utility to change sound system of your windows mobile device according to the time and date. This is very useful at times i.e. I set my phone to vibrate at prayer times, during meetings. You can set your phone to Vibrate, Sound On or Sound Off. It has the ability to add upto 4 schedules. It has very small memory footprint too.

Wipro Consulting Services is conducting a market research study on mobile developer communities. They are looking for a broad range of mobile developers participate in a 1-hour paid interview session via phone that will focus on the following areas:

Google has announced their intention to bring real time translation to your smartphone during phone calls.

This could really impact on the need to learn another language, with the phone doing it all for you then there isnt going to be the need to know it yourself.

It is based on Google’s existing software which automatically converts documents into a different language, this would use voice recognition in order to translate real time speech. This amazing technology could be with us in just a couple of years.