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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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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Piper Jaffray survey of iPad buyers: 74% owned Macs; 66% had iPhones — Who were the device's first buyers, and what do they plan to do with it? — Photo: PED — Most of the people who lined up in New York and Minneapolis to purchase the iPad on Saturday were already committed Apple …
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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:
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Boy Genius Report:
Apple's iPhone 4.0 OS to be revealed Thursday — Uh oh... Apple just sent out invitations for press to get a sneak peak at their next generation iPhone OS, 4.0. We can't wait for April 8th.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Microsoft invites us to mystery event, April 12th! — Well... we don't know what to make of this one. Microsoft just snail-mailed us a circular package with an invitation to an event on April 12th in San Francisco. They also tell us that it's “time to share,” and apparently intend …
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Phil McKinney / HP Voodoo Blog:
HP's Slate Device Delivers a Holistic Mobile Experience — Up to now, we've given you only tiny glimpses of the HP slate device coming out later this year. You saw it first in a video we released during CES and most recently in videos demoing its Web experience and Adobe Flash and Air support.
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Joanna Stern / Engadget:
HP Slate reappears for 30 seconds, shows off camera, custom interface... and iTunes
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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 …
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Zee / The Next Web:
Finally....A real test for the iPad. Will it blend? — These tests, brought to you by Tom Dickinson at Blendtec, are almost as exciting as the wait for the actual product in my book. Now, for the moment youâve (Iâm sure) all been waiting for.
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?
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 …
Nick O'Neill / SocialTimes.com:
Why I'm Returning My Apple iPad ($AAPL) — In the past 48 hours I've gone from boycotting the Apple iPad, to purchasing one, and this morning I'm bringing it back to the store. While I can explain my initial justification for purchasing the device, I should state that I could just as easily justify …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Meet the App Store Millionaires: The Brothers Behind Doodle Jump — Developers are eager to use the iPad as a chance to sell more expensive apps. But you can do just fine selling software at 99 cents a pop. Just ask Igor and Marko Pusenjak. — In the last year the two brothers …
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James McQuivey / paidContent:
Why The iPad Actually Strengthens Amazon's Position — Round 1 goes to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The iPad, as expected, has caused a big stir, and given people like Walt Mossberg reason to gush with enthusiasm about the death of laptops. Throughout, as various members of the press have mused …
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Taiwanese Website says new MacBook Pros/Airs starting production this month — Next Media's Chinese Language Taiwan Apple Daily today reports that New MacBook Pros are going into production this month. The report says delays were due to short supplies of Intel's Core iX series of laptop processors.
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Digital Arts / Macworld:
Adobe brings Ideas to iPad — Adobe has released its first iPad app for Apple's new device. Adobe Ideas is a free digital sketchbook app that's designed to allow artists to sketch ideas wherever they are, before bringing the results into Photoshop or Illustrator back in the studio.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Gowalla's Josh Williams Talks About Phony Geolocation “Wars” and More! — Last week, BoomTown had a very dulcet tea-fueled meeting with Josh Williams, the affable CEO and co-founder of Gowalla, one of the leading location-based mobile status-updating start-ups that seem to have sprouted up everywhere.
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BBC:
Google rolls out privacy reset for Buzz social network — Google has said that it will begin to roll out a privacy reset for its controversial social network Buzz. — The search giant will ask all its users to confirm or change their privacy settings, starting on 5 April.
Amanda Fung / Crain's New York Business:
Silicon Alley isn't ‘back’; it never left. And it's rocking. Why Shake Shack is the new Michael's — Trendsta, a firm that helps marketers promote products through online social networks, left East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last month for a new loftlike office in Manhattan's Flatiron district.
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Online Video Viewers: the Young, the Hip and the Well Off — The demographic of online video viewers is expanding, but it's still dominated by young viewers watching user-generated clips, according to a new research from GigaOM Pro (subscription required) written by TDG analyst Michael Greeson.
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
World's First Android TV Comes from Sweden — A Swedish company will be the first to sell an internet-connected, Android-based TV set. The TV, from the amazingly-named People of Lava, will also be the first television made in Sweden for decades. — The TV is set, fittingly …
Telegraph:
Apple blocks app that warns users of radiation levels — Apple has blocked an app for its iphone that warns users how much radiation they are exposing themselves to while on their phone. — The inexpensive application for the iPhone tells owners when radiation levels have inched up too high …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
eBay Launches One Stop Shop For All Things Fashion — EBay has never been known as the premier fashion mecca in the online retail world. Yes, you can find designer goods on the auction site, but the validity of these goods has been tarnished slightly by reports and subsequent lawsuits of fake designer items being sold on the site.
