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 [...]

Apple (AAPL) has had a difficult time lining up TV programming, digital newspapers and other content with just weeks to go before the the iPad’s April 3 release.
The Wall Street Journal cites people familiar with the matter as saying that electronics maker is now asking that television networks agree to drop the price of their [...]

Quoting unnamed industry insiders, LA Times reports that E-books sold via the iPad’s iBook store will be wrapped with FairPlay DRM to the publishers that want it, though there’s some question about who will and won’t be using the world’s “most popular” form of DRM, some publishers like publisher O’Reilly Media, have publicly stated their [...]

For anyone following the tech news today, it would have been hard to miss Apple’s quarterly financial report.  They had their best quarter ever by a large margin.  They now have $39.5 Billion in cash assets.  To put that in perspective, Microsoft only has $31 billion and change in cash assets.  I don’t know how [...]

The Appleblog offers up an interesting op-ed piece today regarding the future of desktop Macs as their portable, iPhone, iPod and soon to be tablet computers take a larger and larger share of the pie, literally.
The trend lines are no friend of the Mac desktop. For 2009, seven out of ten Macs sold were laptops, [...]

According to an unnamed source speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Electronic Arts has been working with Apple to optimize the tablet’s gaming abilities. EA game has already been producing games for the iPhone and iPod Touch format, So creating games for a larger screen device shouldn’t be such a large jump for the company.  [...]

It’s becoming a feeding frenzy with all the iphone and tablet related rumors popping up.  The latest is about the name of the upcoming tablet device from Apple.  Personally I think it is horrible.  Macrumors is running a story about the name iPad being trademark registered recently around the world.
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/19/will-apples-tablet-actually-be-called-the-ipad-new-trademarks-filed-this-week/
It also makes note of the [...]

Here’s a set of patents that Apple has filed for that may give us some insight into what they are planning for their upcoming tablet and future iPhones.
Intelligent power monitoring
“An electronic device operative to monitor and control processes and operations based on the power cost of those processes and operations are provided.” and “the electronic [...]

It looks like the name iSlate has gone mainstream.  We over at iSlate.org put all the dots together more than 2 years ago.  One of the connections that all other news site have left out is the “Record Last Updated” date on islate.com has always been the same as all of Apple’s other sites like [...]

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 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 Peter Kafka
Leave it to the Apple-obsessed to go nuts over a three-word phrase in a week-old video of a two-week-old event. But that’s what they did yesterday.
The text in question: The passing reference to an “impending Apple slate” by New York Times (NYT) executive editor Bill Keller in an address to his staff. That’s [...]