It been less than one week since the iPad debuted and there are already rumors that Apple is planning a smaller version of the iPad that could arrive as soon as the first quarter of 2011.
According to DigiTimes, citing its own research arm, says Apple is scheduling a 5-inch to 7-inch version of the [...]

A week before the iPad release, Apple (AAPL) was assigned the trademark of ‘iSlate,’ on  March 20, 2010 according to Chinese Trademark Records discovered by Patently Apple.  The Apple trademark application is dated March 25, 2010 and on this same day the iSlate trademark carried by Slate Computing in the US was granted a third [...]

Apple’s production is done by Foxconn Electronics and Foxconn’s component suppliers are telling reporters that they are on schedule, according to this DigiTimes.com article. By the end of this month, Foxconn should be delivering 600,000 to 700,000 iPads to consumers and around 1 million in April.
According to CNet News, a Canaccord Adams analyst named Peter [...]

       
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                  The Chinese company Hanvon, known as Hanwang in China, is the largest ebook reader manufacturer in China.  They are reportedly the founder of the national patented Chinese Handwriting Recognition Technology and a leading company in intelligent pattern recognition technology.
They have introduced their revolutionary Hanvon Touchpad which consists of an ultra thin 10.1-inch [...]

               
                While the whole world was in a craze over Apple’s unveiling of the new iPad, we were all assuming that regardless of the name, they would be announcing the same device that we were expecting the iSlate to be.  When we ended up with missing features we started asking questions.  Now, we have [...]

While the whole world was in a craze over Apple’s unveiling of the new iPad, we were all assuming that regardless of the name, they would be announcing the same device that we were expecting the iSlate to be.  When we ended up with missing features we started asking questions.  Now, we have had time [...]

Patently Apple reports on two new patents, intelligent bezel and line controls.
Essentially Apple applied for patents regarding a device such as a tablet with a bezel that has touch sensitive controls which change according to orientation.
“The bezel is touch sensitive and is used to obtain touch data from the user in response to touch events [...]

          Amazon has reportedly acquired Touchco, a New York start-up that helps build touch-screen technology. According to the New York Times, Amazon has plans to fold Touchco into its Kindle hardware division. The acquisition indicates what Amazon might try to do next in response to Apple’s aggressive entry on the e-book reader market with the [...]

Rupert Murdoch believes that were it not for content from companies like News Corp , the iPad and Kindle devices would be “unloved and unsold,” according to a report Wednesday in the Sydney Morning Herald. He then goes on to say that, company’s earnings call, he said “Content isn’t just King, it’s the Emperor of [...]

According to the Wall Street Journal, several major textbook publishers have begun collaborating with software company ScrollMotion to adapt their textbooks to a electronic page in hope that digital devices such as the Apple iPad will transform the classroom. ScrollMotion already makes an e-book reader application for the iPhone. “This is the beginning of handheld [...]

Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial Co. had launched their version of  iPad more than three months ago according to Shanghaiist.com. The makers of the Chinese device called the Apple iPad a copycat and an executive from the company said that the iPad like was launched in August last year and was also showcased in the [...]

Finally! The anticipation was killing me. Apple today announced their tablet device: iPad.   The iPad? Really? That was the best name you could come up with? Regardless… I want one! With 3G connection (optional) and 802.11n wifi it should be a winner. I would have liked a camera for Skype calls and a GPS for [...]