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John Boudreau / Mercury News:
An estimated 700,000 iPads bought on day one - plus a Steve Jobs sighting in Palo Alto — The iPad arrived in Silicon Valley Saturday with the usual Apple flourish: stores perfectly prepped for fired-up fans, some of whom waited in lines throughout the night to get their hands on the highly coveted tablet.
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Analyst: Apple sold 600-700 thousand iPads the first day — We don't know for sure exactly how many iPads Apple had available to sell on Saturday, but one analyst says the number beat his previous expectations. — Piper Jaffray Senior Research Analyst, Gene Munster, on Saturday …
Dan Frakes / Macworld:
The iPad's charging challenge explained — Anyone taking possession of a shiny new iPad this weekend may have noticed an odd message when connecting their gadget to some computers or USB chargers: the words Not charging in the iPad's menu bar. We experienced the same issue during our initial testing …
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Jeff Fox / Consumer Reports Electronics Blog:
Charging the iPad: Hit or miss — If you're used to charging your phone, music player, or device in the USB port of your computer, take note. So far, we've been unable to charge our iPads in any USB port on a non-Apple Computer. Apple Tech Support has told us that the iPad is designed …
Boy Genius Report:
References to new iPhones, new iPod touch and new iPad found! — While today marks the first day the Apple iPad went on sale, it also gives us a glimpse into the upcoming stuff from Cupertino. One of our connects has been digging around the iPad filesystem and found references to the following:
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple iPad review — The Apple iPad. The name is a killing word — more than a product — it's a statement, an idea, and potentially a prime mover in the world of consumer electronics. Before iPad it was called the Apple Tablet, the Slate, Canvas, and a handful of other guesses …
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Cliff Edwards / Business Week:
Netbook Sales Sag as the iPad Arrives — The sales growth of the mini-laptops has fallen sharply as buyers eye more capable portable computers — Apple's (AAPL) iPad is helping cool the computer industry's netbook fever. Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has made no secret of his disdain for the popular, inexpensive mini-notebooks.
Craig Hockenberry / furbo.org:
Benchmarking in your lap — It's been a little over 2½ years since I last looked at the performance of Apple's mobile devices. A lot has changed with the software and hardware since then, let's take a look at how the new iPad compares to the devices we're more familiar with. — Native performance
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
E-Books on the iPad: iBooks vs. Kindle for iPad — Ever since Steve Jobs first announced iBooks for the iPad, pundits have been wondering about the future of the Kindle and similar e-book readers in the face of this new competition. Now that we actually have access to an iPad …
Kdawson / Slashdot:
Print-On-Demand Publisher VDM Infects Amazon — erich666 writes “In recent months a flood of so-called books have been appearing in Amazon's catalog. VDM Publishing's imprints Alphascript and Betascript Publishing have listed over 57,000 titles, adding at least 10,000 in the previous month alone.
Cliff Kuang / Fast Company:
Facebook Sues Data Geek, but That Doesn't Solve Its Privacy Problem — A computer programmer culls data from 210 million Facebook profiles—and pisses Facebook off in the process. — Remember those fascinating graphs by Peter Warden that used Facebook data to illustrate, for example …
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Digits:
Bill Gates Remembers Personal Computer Pioneer — Bill Gates, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, on Friday sent the Wall Street Journal this remembrance of Henry Edward Roberts, who died Thursday at the age of 68. Gates, who argues that Roberts deserves to be called the father of the personal computer …
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David F. Gallagher / Bits:
Live Blogging the iPad's Big Day — Since the word “iPad” entered the collective consciousness back in January, there has been plenty of punditry about what Apple's new device means for the future of technology, media and life as we know it. On Saturday, people will finally be able to start making up their own minds about it.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Live Dispatch From The iPad Line At SF's Flagship Apple Store
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