Rats! It appears that the iOS 4 upgrade to iPads won’t be until Nov. I was hoping for Aug. I’m wondering if a new iPad will be introduced at the same time. FaceTime on the iPad? Could be…

     Apple’s (AAPL) iPad sales are from slowing down, more than 3 million iPads have been sold in just the first 80 days tablet computer’s launch in the United States.  The iPad past analysts’ expectations by selling million units in the first 28 days, the second million was reached in 60 days. 
According to Katy Huberty [...]

The company Canonical, which is a open source software developer is building a version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system that will run on tablet PC’s.
Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and is distributed as free and open source software with additional proprietary software available.  Ubuntu has had pretty [...]

The 405 Fwy was closed for most of the day yesterday due to a horrific accident. I was about 30 miles from home with no idea how to get there since the 405 is the main northbound route to the San Fernando Valley. Fortunately, I had my iPad 3G with me. I launched Google Maps, [...]

Steve Jobs
Apple and Microsoft took jabs at each other at the Wall Street Journal’s 2010 D8 conference in Southern California.  The conference started of with Apple’s (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs speaking with All Things Digital producers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher on Wednesday and then on Thursday with Microsoft’s (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer along with [...]

       Just before the start of Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan, a crowd of journalists almost rushed the stage with excitement as the computer maker Asustek Computer Inc. (LSE: ASKD) announced its first tablet computers that will run on Microsoft Corp’s Windows 7 operating system, called the Eee Pad.  The announcement comes after rival [...]

Nicholas Negroponte the project founder of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation announced Thursday that it has signed an agreement with chipmaker Marvell to jointly develop the next generation of OLPC XO-3 tablet and get it in prototype form by December of this year for a showing at CES in January 2011.
OLPC originally announced last [...]

An analyst reports that not only will CEO Steve Jobs return to Apple’s WWDC 2010 (Worldwide Developer Conference) this year, but that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is scheduled to make a seven-minute appearance to present a product from Microsoft: Visual Studio 2010 for Mac OS X, iPhone and iPad.
It is reported that the stage time [...]

   If your a New York Yankees fan then you may want to leave your iPad at home the next time you head to Yankee Stadium. It appears that the Apple iPad violates Yankees Stadium’s strict security policy that prohibits laptops from entering the brand new $1.5 billion ballpark.  According to the security policies of [...]

    The folks at Gizmodo, Engadget, and Netbook News got to spend some hands-on time with Nvidia’s prototype tablet yesterday at the Google I/O 2010 .
Nvidia hinted that the tablet PC would run Android OS and be powered by its 1Ghz Tegra 2 platform which combines an dual core Cortex A9 ARM-based processor with NVIDIA graphics.  [...]

      Telecom giant BT has announced it will launch a tablet PC for use in the home.
Chief executive, Ian Livingston of BT  showed off a prototype of the tablet at the company’s investor day on Thursday in London.
BT did not reveal any details or specs on the device, but is believed to be smaller than [...]

    Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam told The Wall Street Journal that his company is working closely with Google on a tablet computer that will compete with Apple’s iPad and said he believes tablets are part of “the next big wave of opportunities” for his company. McAdam hinted that the Verizon tablet would be similar to [...]