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Apple Sells Over 300,000 iPads First Day — Apple® today announced that it sold over 300,000 iPads in the US as of midnight Saturday, April 3. These sales included deliveries of pre-ordered iPads to customers, deliveries to channel partners and sales at Apple Retail Stores.
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Robin Wauters / CrunchGear:
Apple: 300,000 iPads sold, 1 million apps downloaded on first day — Apple has just announced that it sold over 300,000 iPads in the US as of midnight Saturday, April 3, including deliveries of pre-ordered devices to customers, channel partners and sales at Apple Retail Stores.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Trouble In Paradise: iPad Users Complain Of Wifi Issues — Just one day after launch and there are already scores of complaints on the Apple support site over faulty wifi on the iPad. A typical complaint is that the iPad shows no wifi signal, or a very weak signal, where other devices pick it up just fine:
Alexia Tsotsis / The Snitch:
iPad Has Risen: Steve Jobs Makes Easter Eve Appearance — With around 700,000 units of what was presciently called the Jesus Tablet sold yesterday, it's worth noting that Steve Jobs, wearing a black hoodie and ripped jeans, revealed himself to his flock on Easter Eve at the Palo Alto Apple store …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
The iPad and the failings of the computer industry — Steve Jobs' latest creation drew big crowds; why can't his competitors manage the same magic? And isn't it time for Apple to show who can think big inside besides Jobs? — Can anyone copy Apple's commandments?
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
At Snopes, a Quest to Debunk Misinformation Online — It is one of the paradoxes of the Internet. — Along with the freest access to knowledge the world has ever seen comes a staggering amount of untruth, from imagined threats on health care to too-easy-to-be-true ways to earn money by forwarding an e-mail message to 10 friends.
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Google Buzz Privacy Reset Coming Tomorrow — In an effort to address mounting criticism of the privacy issues surrounding Google Buzz, the search giant is going to ask all Buzz users to confirm or change their privacy settings tomorrow. — In an announcement that will be coming soon …
Barry Oneill / Recombu:
App Friday: Android's ‘flea market’ needs urgent attention — This is a guest post from Barry O'Neil (@barryoneill), ex-President of Namco Bandai Network Europe and now founder and CEO of Other Ventures. Before joining Namco Barry co-founded Upstart Games, a privately-held publisher of mobile games …
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James Niccolai / PC World:
Microsoft Ending Support for Itanium — Microsoft is ending its support for Intel's Itanium processor with the current version of its Windows Server OS, according to a Microsoft blog posting Friday. — “Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the last version of Windows Server to support …
Doc Searls Weblog:
Beyond the iPad — I was just interviewed for a BBC television feature that will run around the same time the iPad is launched. I'll be a talking head, basically. For what it's worth, here's what I provided as background for where I'd be coming from in the interview:
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
Apple's iPad A4 SoC: Faster than the Nexus One's Snapdragon? — Fresh out the frying pan and into the fire, I just finished my Nexus One review late last night only to have my iPad preorder show up early this afternoon. I had been preparing for it's arrival not by downloading apps …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Source: Elevation Partners Got About 1% Of Facebook For $90 Million — We've been digging deeper on the Elevation Partners investment in Facebook Common Stock. In our original post we had heard that Elevation Partners paid “around $30/share” for the stock in a late 2009 transaction.
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
‘Suicide’ Query Prompts Google to Offer Hotline — As with any omniscient being, you can ask Google anything. You just don't know what the answer is going to be. — That changed slightly last week when the Google search engine started automatically giving a suggestion of where to call …
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Apple's iPad Taps Familiar Suppliers — A look inside Apple Inc.'s new iPad points to more business for some familiar component suppliers to the Silicon Valley giant. — Firms that specialize in disassembling and analyzing electronic hardware say they also found some new clues …
