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So Apple shifted 300,000 iPads on Saturday alone and will announce/preview/tease with iPhone OS 4 this Thursday, so what? You’re reading the same goddam stuff everywhere, right? This homogenous news agenda gets so tired sometimes I just don’t wanna bother – this excites me, however, the Victorian Organ Command Desk – a Mac like no other, and equipped with an iPhone dock. Read the rest of this entry »

Mag+ live with Popular Science+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

This is very nice. Popular Science +, a new magazine concept put together for the iPad. Read the rest of this entry »

Shazam today announced its Shazam App for iPad is now available on the App Store.

“Shazam was one of the inaugural apps available when the App Store launched nearly two years ago and we are delighted to be available for iPad at launch as well,” said Andrew Fisher, CEO of Shazam. Read the rest of this entry »

We predicted this for months, people, and now it has come true – and we fear for the future of those nice enthusiastic young people who love to work in that last refuge of friendly geekery, the comic shop – Marvel (owned by Steve Jobs’ Disney since last year) has introduced an iPad application for comic reading. Read the rest of this entry »

Amazon is facing pressure to cut Kindle prices even while the eBook war between the retailer, Apple and publishing houses means Amazon has stopped selling some Penguin and Hachette e-books.

With the overwhelmingly positive reviews greeting the iPad, which is set to snuggle into US consumer hands on the morrow, Wall Street is getting nervous for Amazon.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says Amazon should cut the price of the Kindle: he suggests a reduction to $149, from the current $259.

Munster says he expects Amazon shares to be under pressure for a few weeks as the Street worries about the iPad eating into Kindle sales. Read the rest of this entry »

Look who’s back! The original iPhone fan, Greg Packer has returned to queue outside of Apple’s New York City shop for three days to get his hands on one of the first iPads, just like he did in summer 2007 to get his claws around the first iPhone.

Here’s a few of his statements, Read the rest of this entry »

You can expect at least seven million iPad sales in the US by the end of this year, say analysts at ORC – and one third of those buying will be replacing a Windows PC, read on…

They observe that 71 percent of US consumers are already aware of the product, and estimate one million initial sales of the product. Current analyst estimates conjecture five million iPad sales this year (it will vastly exceed that). Read the rest of this entry »

Good morning America, and hey, to the rest of the world it looks like the church of his Steve-ness plans to keep us waiting for the chance to press our flesh against an iPad – at least for a few more weeks… (They do this every time, so don’t act surprised).

So, big news this am is the sudden appearance of the much-awaited Amazon-killer, the iBooks App, Read the rest of this entry »