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First iPad reviews hit the web

With the iPad a few days away, now begins one of the great rituals of the release of a new Apple product: the posting of the reviews from the lucky few journalists who were given a week to play with the product. Here are the reviews Macworld has  found so far: via this link  First [...]

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IPad’s Widely Mocked Name Won’t Stifle Sales

Branding experts say the name has punchy appeal and that jokes won’t deter women—or men, for that matter—from buying Apple’s (AAPL) tablet computer, which goes on sale in the U.S. Apr. 3. “The minute you hear it, you know who brought it to you, how it’s going to work, that it’s high quality, and how [...]

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Apple gets iPad trademark from Fujitsu

In a week’s time, Apple will have a new tablet on its way to a retail shelf near you. But it can already lay claim to something else iPad-related—the trademark to the name. That’s according to a report posted Friday at PatentAuthority.com, which says that Apple has bought the iPad trademark from Fujitsu. via Report: [...]

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FT – Uncertain debut on cards for iPad

That uncertainty is reflected in the unusually wide range of Wall Street predictions for how many of the 9.7-inch screen tablets Apple will sell in the product’s first year: anywhere from 1m to 10m units, which start at about $500. The debut weekend’s sales – whether official or estimated – therefore will be subjected to [...]

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Apple’s iPad Could Kill The Mac

The Mac’s greatest enemy may not be Microsoft Windows. It may be Apple itself. In a conversation at a Goldman Sachs technology conference, Apple COO Tim Cook said that Apple is a “mobile devices company,” and that more devices will get the iPhone OS. A bit later, AT&T’s CEO said the iPad would mostly be [...]

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ARM Sees Over 50 New IPad-like Devices out This Year

The launch of Apple’s iPad will pave the way for a slew of rival products this year, an Arm executive said Wednesday, predicting over 50 tablet PC devices will be launched globally.  The coming swarm of tablets has even prompted Arm, Intel's main rival in the mobile microprocessor business, to rent more space at the [...]

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Wired’s Chris Anderson Believes He Has Seen the Future–and It’s Tablets

Among other things, he predicts the rampant adoption of tablets will happen in less than ten years. Some other points: * Anderson believes the time is right for tablets because so much of our data is now stored in the cloud instead of on a hard drive. We don’t need to carry around laptops. This [...]

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Apple iPad to Barely Bite Market?

“The most likely scenario for iPad sales this year is 4.2 million [units],” says Gartner analyst Angela McIntyre. via Apple iPad to Barely Bite Market | Technology | Financial Articles & Investing News | TheStreet.com.

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Where will you buy iPad?

For that reason, Cook (Apple Executive) told investors he wasn’t worried about the iPad’s potential to take away sales from other Apple offerings. “I’m a paranoid guy by nature,” he said. “But I’m not losing any sleep over cannibalization.” Initially, Apple plans to offer the iPad through its direct sales channels, such as its online [...]

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Rumor: US iPad WiFi pre-orders to start on 25 Feb?

According to a rumor on the AppAdvice, a reliable source is telling them that Apple will allow people to pre-order an iPad as soon as February 25th… in other words, this Thursday. If Apple does start pre-orders on Thursday, we can probably expect the WiFi iPad to be sent out and sold live starting on [...]

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