Part 2 of our Mobile News round-up for 7 January starts with a bull invasion and ends with a clean-out.

Without further ado, let’s get started.

Bulls Invade CES 2012

Before one searches for pictures of bull runs similar to those in Spain, these bulls are trailers or huts brought into an expected high-load area, such as Las Vegas for CES 2012, to handle a temporary hub for mobile connections to the carriers.

The Consumer Electronics Show brings tens of thousands of visitors to Las Vegas each year, and almost every visitor has a mobile phone, a smartphone, a PDA, a tablet or a laptop. All want to connect to mobile networks – the same networks that cannot handle the extra load.

So carriers bring in bulls to act as short-term hubs that grant extra network connections to keep their customers talking, texting, emailing, surfing and sharing all day long.

It’s close to the opening of the CES: The bulls have invaded Las Vegas.

Apple Core Goes Quad?

Tossing seeds aside, Apple rumours now include the possibility that the iOS 5 will support quad-core processors.

The discovered code entry that implies quad-core capability is noted in the coding phrase,

“/cores/core.3.”

An entry of “core.0” means a single core. An entry reading “core.1” stipulates dual-core. The core.3 means quad-core.

Since the iPhone 5 is believed to be driven by the iOS 5, it just might come to pass that the next-gen iPhone will sport a quad-core processor.

Microsoft Closing Update Site

Microsoft starts spring cleaning early by announcing it is closing the

“Where’s my phone update?”

…web page where surfers could find information on updates, delays and other announcements. They will be maintaining their Windows Phone ‘How To’ page and will include some information there, but users have already started a grassroots movement against the removal decision for which there was no official reason given.

Microsoft has determined that it will make available – to carriers only – information on the newest update to the Windows Phone platform, the build 8107. But carriers have to ask for it.

Parts of this build address glitches and bugs not released in prior fixes, and some markets received the 8107, and some haven’t. US users, for instance, aren’t slated for the fix, so if you Yanks have a Windows Phone 7 model, contact your carrier and request the fix. If enough users request it, you just might get it.