The Apple tablet is well into the construction process, and no mere pipe dream, it appears: you can now even buy parts for the mystery iPad, iSlate, iTablet online. Does this SIM tray mean the Apple slate will be a network subsidized, 3G toting affair?
Head on over to the ChinaOntrade.com, and you’ll find the SIM [...]

The Apple Tablet rumors had been flagging over the past few days, so it’s handy that the Wall Street Journal has come along with a shot of adrenaline and some interesting suggestions about the scale of Steve Jobs’ involvement.  In a piece that has already seen Jobs fire off an email suggesting “much of your [...]

“A couple of years ago, a company called Axiotron announced an aftermarket modification for the MacBook that converted the Apple laptop into a tablet. The modification remains for sale at $699 and takes a stock MacBook, removes the keyboard and screen, and adds a Wacom pen-based screen to give the device a tablet form factor,” [...]

Apple insiders for more than three year’s have predicted a release date, and all of them have been wrong.  So what has changed that makes the insiders predictions this time sound correct? Well for starters it is rumored that Apple has already contracted Taiwanese firms for key components and manufacturing of a the iPad tablet device that is [...]

New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Time, People could be available via iTunes style store
Nick Spence, Macworld U.K
Rival publishers including Time, Condé Nast and Hearst are expected to team-up to offer a range of best-selling high-profile magazines on the iPhone, BlackBerry and other mobile platforms.
More than 50 magazines including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Time, [...]

This story comes to us from the Huffington Post:
Recently I was given just 24 hours to explore a first production build of theApple iPad and here are my first impressions and discoveries. First, it’s more like an iPhone than MacBook. The operating system depends on gestures, and expands the vocabulary. Your hand is going to [...]

A new Apple patent application describes a system for simplifying the task of syncing devices and choosing which files to share between them and describes in detail a role for near field communication in enabling devices to be synchronised easily. The publication of the patent last week follows the news that Apple is believed to [...]

by Jim Dalrymple

A new report from Digitimes on Thursday says Apple’s anticipated iSlate, iPad, iTablet, iTab, tablet will not be released in the first part of 2010 as originally thought, but rather in the second half of the year. One industry analyst said the timing of the release is irrelevant to Wall [...]

MediaMemo by Peter Kafka
Here’s yet another content creator convinced that Apple has a tablet device in the works: Condé Nast says it will have a digital version of Wired magazine ready for the rumored gadget by the middle of next year and will eventually create similar versions for all of its 18 titles.
But Condé, like [...]

CNN seems to be in the know. An article today predicts it will be the “must have” device for virtually everyone.
“If the rumors are true, the tablet will be able to do basically everything a gadget could possibly do. It’s an e-reader, a gaming device, and a music player. You can watch TV and movies [...]

Notes company was on verge of collapse
Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, speaking on a Thursday-night CNBC program, is noted to have complimented Steve Jobs on his return to Apple, crediting him for effectively saving the company. Gates was on TV as part of a “Keeping America Great” town hall event, paired with billionaire investor Warren [...]

…And to pour some more fire into the Apple Tablet rumor mill, we have a new patent application by Apple.