As they did with the first iPhone ad, Apple yesterday aired the first iPad ad during the Academy Awards. No new information was revealed about the device, although the ad shows off many of the included applications and serves as a public announcement of the April 3rd launch date. The ad can be viewed on [...]

It’s official: Apple finally announced that the Wi-Fi models of its long-awaited iPad will go on sale in the U.S. on Saturday, April 3rd. 3G-capable models of the device will be available in the U.S. and other countries in late April and Apple will begin taking preorders for the both models on March 12th.
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Although Apple officially announced that the iPad would go on sale at the end of March, the actual release date may be a few days sooner. According to a blog post from The Examiner, an Apple Store employee commented that Apple is planning on launching the iPad on Friday, March 26th at 6 P.M. in [...]

Digital Daily is reporting that, according to Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek, Apple might be facing manufacturing problems that will lead to constrained supplies of the iPad, or even a delay in its launch:
“We have … heard that the upcoming iPad launch may be somewhat limited as a manufacturing bottleneck has impacted production of Apple’s [...]

We suspected that because of it’s larger size, the iPad would be able to fit more powerful components into it’s frame, with the obvious result being more speed, better graphics and longer battery life. Now Apple saying that is only partly the case. While it’s got a more powerful processor and bigger battery, the iPad [...]

Apple’s Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook spoke at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2010 today. Here is the “LINK” to listen
Overall, Cook came off extremely well. He talked about the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad extensively as well as their iTunes content, app ecosystem, and carrier partners. His key points included Apple saying [...]

Word on the street says that iPad pre-orders may be starting as soon as next week, according to the usual unnamed “source familiar with the matter.” The sales would allegedly be starting in the US only on February 25. That’s roughly one month in advance of the release date that was projected, which would give [...]

The Boy Genius has been hearing from his AT&T contacts that it is highly likely AT&T will be selling the 3G version of Apple’s iPad in their corporate stores across the country.
Don’t get too excited thinking AT&T will offer any sort of subsidy, however, because that is simply not in the cards. The rumored plan [...]

Windows Weekly co-host Paul Thurrott, who was initially nonplussed about Apple’s iPad but is slightly warming to the device, has linked to a blog post from Bill Hill, former head of ClearType at Microsoft, who offers:
I predict it will be a huge success. It will cause the same kind of mayhem among TabletPC and eBook [...]

It was easy to guess that because of their affiliation with Apple’s CEO, Walt Disney is in support of the iPad. They expressed this during a financial call last night in which they complemented the device for how it promises to change the way some people consume media.
“We find that the iPad has a lot [...]

While much of iPad presentation thus far has been focused on content consumption, Apple’s iWork demo and the ability to run iPhone productivity apps — and eventually iPad-specific apps — as well as 1024×768 web apps means it’s got a fighting chance in business, especially key verticals like medicine, and with developers like Omni Group.
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According to Mission Repair, Apple’s iPad has a space for an iSight webcam/camera inside the device. Based on parts seemingly obtained through unofficial channels, the frame appears to have a very similar area to the MacBook’s existing iSight webcam enclosure.
If true, this is almost the exact same situation that occurred with the iPod touch G3, [...]

Apple’s new iPad tablet is essentially a larger form-factor iPhone 3GS or iPod touch G3 which leverages both the bigger, 1024×768 screen and an updated iPhone 3.2 OS with enhanced versions of existing apps like Mail and Calendar, new offerings like the iBooks e-book reader and store, low-cost 3G data plans, and a 1GHz Apple [...]

The recent flurry of rumors predicting the end of AT&T’s arrangement as exclusive provider of the Apple iPhone were apparently false. In fact, not only did Apple not announce the demise of exclusivity, it doubled down on its exclusive arrangement with AT&T by revealing AT&T as the sole provider of 3G wireless access for the [...]

If you’re still holding onto hope that the the iPad will have Flash, it’s time to let the notion go. In response to Internet-wide confusion, the iPad intro video which initially prompted us to think that the wonder pad would have Flash has been updated to show a “missing plugin” icon in place of would-be [...]