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9:25 AM ET, January 28, 2010

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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
The Apple iPad: starts at $499  —  After nearly a decade of rumors and speculation, Apple's finally unveiled the iPad.  Apple says there's room for a third device between the smartphone and the laptop, and that it has to be better at tasks like browsing, email, photos, e-books …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Apple iPad event video now online  —  Sure, you lived through every harrowing moment live with your friends from Engadget, but if you're dying for that direct dose of RDF, the video from Apple's iPad event is now live and streaming away.  You know what would be perfect for watching this?
Colin Smith / Apple:
Apple Launches iPad  —  Magical & Revolutionary Device at an Unbelievable Price  —  Apple® today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books …
Arn / MacRumors:
iPad SDK 3.2 Details: External Display, File Sharing System, No Multitasking  —  Apple has unleashed iPhone OS 3.2 SDK to developers today to prepare for the launch of the Apple iPad.  The new iPhone OS 3.2 only runs on the iPad device and will not run on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
Ray Wenderlich:
A First Look at the iPad SDK and the iPad Sample Code
Discussion: O'Grady's PowerPage and MacNN
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The iPad Big Picture  —  There was a meta-message in today's Apple event, not about the iPad in particular, but rather about Apple as a whole.  Jobs's brief preamble included a bit of extra emphasis on the fact that the Apple now generates over $50 billion per year in revenue.
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Walter S. Mossberg / Mossblog:
First Impressions of the new Apple iPad  —  It's about the software, stupid.  While all sorts of commentators were focusing on how much Apple's new $499 iPad tablet computer looks like an oversized iPhone, the key to whether it can be the first multi-function tablet to win wide public acceptance probably lies …
David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
The Apple iPad: First Impressions  —  Today Apple finally unveiled its tablet computer, the iPad.  Thus concludes Phase 1 of the standard Apple new-category roll-out: months of feverish speculation and hype online, despite any official indication by Apple that the product even exists.
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Apple iPad First Hands On  —  It's substantial but surprisingly light.  Easy to grip.  Beautiful.  Rigid.  Starkly designed.  The glass is a little rubbery but it could be my sweaty hands.  And it's fasssstttt.  —  Apple didn't really sell this point, but it's the single biggest benefit of the iPad: speed.
Ted Schadler / The Forrester Blog …:
Apple's iPad Will Come Into The Enterprise Through The Consumer Door.
Discussion: Computerworld and ReadWriteWeb
Telegraph:   Is gaming the Apple iPad's ‘killer app’?
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
McGraw-Hill axed from iPad launch after CEO leaks on TV  —  This is one of Steve Jobs' slides from this morning's iPad launch presentation.  Can you tell what's wrong with it?  —  The awkward array of five logos used to be a tidy lineup of six.  The day before the show, Apple removed McGraw-Hill …
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Stephanie Clifford / Media Decoder:
Condé Nast and Time Inc. Cheer iPad; Others Have Doubts
Discussion: MediaPost and New York Times
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
The iPad Is a Multimedia Device. So Where Are the Media? Be Patient.
Discussion: Telegraph, Bits and Digits
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
8 Things That Suck About the iPad  —  A lot of people at Gizmodo are psyched about the iPad.  Not me!  My god, am I underwhelmed by it.  It has some absolutely backbreaking failures that will make buying one the last thing I would want to do.  Updated  —  Big, Ugly Bezel
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Greg Kumparak / CrunchGear:
The iPad may not have a camera, but it sure thinks it does  —  Surprised that the iPad doesn't have a camera?  Yeah, so are we - and if these screenshots of the just-released iPad emulator are any indication, so is someone on Apple's software development team.
Discussion: Gizmodo Australia and Electricpig
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Could No Camera Be an iPad Killer?
Brad Stone / Bits:
Three Reasons Why the iPad WON'T Kill Amazon's Kindle  —  It may be suddenly fashionable to say so, but the new Apple iPad tablet won't kill Amazon.com's Kindle.  Here are three reasons.  My colleague, Nick Bilton, has weighed in on this topic from the opposite side.  Please add your thoughts in the comments section below.
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Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon: You can read Kindle books on the iPad too
PR Newswire:
Apple Lifts 3G VoIP Restrictions, iCall with 3G Support Available Immediately  —  iCall VoIP services for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch are now available for use over 3G networks such as AT&T wireless.  —  Apple Computer, Inc. has updated the iPhone developer SDK to allow VoIP …
Michael Chou / Adobe Flash Platform Blog:
Building iPad Applications with Flash  —  Today Apple announced the Apple iPad and like many of you, we at Adobe are looking forward to getting our hands on one of these devices.  This is an exciting time to be a software designer with an explosion of new devices and we look forward …
The Official Google Blog:
Search is getting more social  —  Late last year we released the Social Search experiment to make search more personal with relevant web content from your friends and online contacts.  We were excited by the number of people who chose to try it out, and today Social Search is available to everyone in beta on google.com.
Timothy B Lee / Bottom-up:
The Case against the iPad  —  Apple released a new product, called the iPad, today.  For those of you who don't spend your days glued to Twitter, you can view all the details at Apple's website.  I'm not impressed.  I'm a lifelong Mac fanboy, so I'm not averse to buying Apple stuff.
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Nicholas Carr / The New Republic:
The PC Officially Died Today
Electronista:
Microsoft roadmap has Windows 8 shipping in 2011  —  A new discovery of a recently-departed Microsoft employee's blog has revealed a rough version of Microsoft's roadmap for key software, including Windows 8 (PDF).  If a reflection of Microsoft's tentative plans, it would have Windows 8 released …
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Oracle murders Sun's copycat Amazon cloud  —  Back to reality  —  It took a major acquisition to finally deliver a dose of reality, but Sun Microsystems' me-too Amazon-style cloud is finally dead.  —  On Wednesday, Edward Screven, Oracle's chief corporate architect, said unequivocally …
 
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How a stray mouse click choked the NYSE & cost a bank $150K
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Amazon and Others Slam Revised Google Books Deal
Discussion: Media Decoder
 Earlier Items: 
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
New Firefox Email Is Easier to Use, But Not Easy Enough
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Think iBooks Looks Familiar? You're Not The Only One.
Discussion: Gadget Lab, Thanks:atul
The Official Google Blog:
Google's Privacy Principles
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Microsoft Sues Prominent BitTorrent Tracker For $43m
Discussion: Neowin.net and Techdirt
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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