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Apple announced on Monday that it has sold more than 1 million iPads since its announcement on January 27," Carl Howe blogs for The Yankee Group. "I’m counting since January 27 only because pre-orders are included; the reality is the most of those sales and deliveries have been in the last 30 days." MacDailyNews Note: iPad pre-orders began on March 12th, not January 27. [Thanks, Steveeee.] Howe continues, "Assuming that rate continues in May (and because even Apple Stores keep running out of stock that seems likely), we’ll see Apple having sold about 1.5 million units by the end of...

"There's an interesting chart in a report to clients issued early Thursday morning by Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty," Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune. "What caught my eye, however, was what her proprietary research shows about the impact of the iPad and other tablets on the broader gadget market, starting with netbooks. As her chart shows, sales growth of these low-cost, low-powered computing devices peaked last summer at an astonishing 641% year-over-year growth rate," Elmer-DeWitt reports. "It fell off a cliff in January and shrank again in April — collateral damage, according to Huberty, from the January introduction and April launch...

The iPad Wi-Fi + 3G, Apple's new 'magical' device, has managed to sell 300,000 units over the weekend, a respected Apple observer has confirmed, indicating at the significant demand which the device has been greeted with. According to the figures estimated by Gene Munstner, a senior bean cruncher at the Piper Jaffray & Co. in Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog, Apple has sold nearly 300,000 iPads this weekend, starting Friday. Munster has come to the estimation, which has been concluded after considering several other numbers and facts, like the count of people at the Apple store in New York and a...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs named to TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential list (with cover photo). • Leaders: Sarah Palin, Manmohan Singh and other global movers and shakers • Heroes: The inspiring feats of an urban farmer, an air-traffic controller in Haiti and icons like Bill Clinton • Artists: Lady Gaga, Conan O'Brien and others who make us dance, giggle and retweet • Thinkers: Steve Jobs plus scientists, statesmen and a Supreme Court Justice

iPad 3G now on sale! I'm in line behind about 150 people. An army of staff are pairing off with customers. The buzz is fun.

* Calls software "closed," questions reliability* Flash not compatible on iPhone, iPad * Adobe shares fall 2 percent, Apple up 2.4 pct SAN FRANCISCO, April 29 (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) Chief Executive Steve Jobs on Thursday called Adobe Systems (ADBE.O) Flash multimedia software a "closed system" that is ill-suited for the company's suite of mobile devices, escalating the war of words between the two companies. Jobs said Flash's system is closed because it is a proprietary system from Adobe, which controls everything from its features to its pricing. Ironically, perhaps, similar charges have been lobbed at Apple's products...

<p>JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel on Sunday lifted a ban on Apple Inc.'s popular iPad tablet computer, ending restrictions that had been imposed over concerns the gadget's wireless signal could disrupt other devices.</p> <p>Communications Ministry officials conducted "intensive technical scrutiny in a controlled laboratory" before deciding to allow the iPad into the country, said Yechiel Shabi, a ministry spokesman.</p>

A US gamer has been banned from ever buying another iPad. Why? He reached his "lifetime limit." Who knew that such a limit existed? ... After two Apple Employees - identified in the tale as Guy #1 and Guy #2 - check his identity via credit card, Guy #2 informs him: "There is a limit to the number of iPads that customers can buy." Our protagonist ask what that limit might be, and Guy #2 answers: "Only 2 per customer." At that point, Guy #1 returns, and the conversation takes on a Kafkaesque quality: * Guy #1: I'm sorry sir,...

Police search house of Gizmodo blogger, take Mac, cell phone in iPhone leak investigation FREMONT, Calif. (AP) -- A blogger who posted pictures and details of a lost iPhone prototype has given up his computer, digital camera and cell phone to law enforcement. A special computer-crime task force made up of different law enforcement agencies searched Gizmodo blogger Jason Chen's house and car, according to a statement and search warrant documents provided by Gizmodo. The warrant says the computer and other devices may have been used to commit a felony. Apple did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Laptop design is largely governed by heat management. There are a few key components inside a laptop that run quite hot. The CPU and GPU are perhaps the most important of these, as they focus huge energy output into a tiny square of silicon. One way that notebook designers have faced this challenge is through the use of metal laptop bodies.This works to a degree, but the unfortunate side effect is that when things run really hot the entire laptop body heats up to an uncomfortable level. This can quite easily shift a laptop from being pleasantly warm in one's...

Although its name suggests perhaps even grander capabilities, Windows enthusiasts are excited over the discovery of a hidden "GodMode" feature that lets users access all of the operating system's control panels from within a single folder. By creating a new folder in Windows 7 and renaming it with a certain text string at the end, users are able to have a single place to do everything from changing the look of the mouse pointer to making a new hard-drive partition.

Pundits are declaring mobile the new PC. The number of mobile phones far outstrips the number of desktops. Mobile phones are available to people in the developing world who never had an opportunity to buy or even use a PC. With phones becoming smarter, there will be even less need for people to own PCs. Microsoft has dominated the PC-based world ever since it drove Apple close to extinction in the mid ’90s. But with Apple’s strong footing in mobile, its recent release of a larger, tablet form factor, iPad, also based on its mobile iPhone OS, and more form...

The naysayers who argue it's only for consuming digital content are wrongComputerworld - You've heard the case against Apple's iPad. It's a media consumption device for mindless couch potatoes. It's a step back in the evolution of computing, because it turns users into passive consumers of content, rather than creators. "The iPad," journalism professor and blogger Jeff Jarvis proclaimed, "is retrograde. It tries to turn us back into an audience again." His evidence includes the TIME Magazine app, which lacks links and reader commenting, and the iPad's lack of iPad camera and USB port. O'Reilly Radar blogger Jim Stogdill argued...

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Shares of Apple Inc. today rose $3.23, or 1.31%, on lighter-than-average volume of 13,298,650 shares to set a new all-time closing high of $248.92. Apple's previous closing high was $245.69 set yesterday. Apple's all-time high (intraday) stands at $249.03, set during trading today. Apple's 52-week low is $115.76. At market close, Apple's market value stands at $225.72 billion. The top five U.S. publicly-traded companies: 1. Exxon Mobil (XOM) - $322.27B 2. Microsoft (MSFT) - $270.74B3. Apple (AAPL) - $225.72B 4. General Electric (GE) - $208.12B 5. Wal-Mart (WMT) - $203.48B Selected companies' current market values: • Google (GOOG) - $189.29B...

Comment Good versus not so good THE CAPPUCCINO COMPANY Apple updated its line of laptops aimed at creative professionals. But what the launch of the latest Macbook Pro serves to illustrate is how underwhelming the Ipad really is. Apple's portable PC lineup has always been strong and ever since its move to Intel processors back in January 2006, not only have they looked the part but they've also performed very well. The latest crop incorporates Nvidia's Optimus graphics switching technology to build on the previous generation's dual GPUs. That Nvidia feature enables 'in line' switching between an integrated GPU, which...

In its first 10 days, Apple's iPad has captured almost as much online usage share as the BlackBerry or Google's Android operating system, a Web metrics firm said In its first 10 days, Apple 's iPad has captured almost as much online usage share as the BlackBerry or Google 's Android operating system, a Web metrics firm said today. According to data from Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based NetApplications.com, the iPad's share has averaged 0.03% since April 3, the day Apple started selling the media tablet . Although that number is puny compared to the major operating systems -- Windows XP, for...

All he needs is an iPad and an electrical outlet to run the country. Norway's prime minister, Jens Stotlenberg is again grounded in New York as volcanic ash from Iceland's tempermental volcano continues to close European airspace, but that didn't stop him from doing the daily business of Norwegian govemernment from his iPad in an airport lounge. Stoltenberg, who traveled from Oslo to participate in President Obama's nuclear summit, was stranded along with many thousands of others and will probably be waiting for at least another day before flights can resume, authorities said Friday. The FAA is working to move...

The latest version of Apple’s 15-inch dream machine delivers Core i7 power and automatic switchable graphics while lasting nearly 8 hours on a charge. Lowest Price: $2,099.99 Pros Excellent battery life Strong Core i7 performance Automatic switchable graphics Comfortable backlit keyboard Great touchpad with inertial scrolling Cons Runs warm Limited ports Pricey Quick Specs Full SpecsCPU: 2.66-GHz Intel Core i7-620M Operating System: OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) RAM/Upgradable to: 4GB/8GB Hard Drive Size/Speed: 500GB/5,400 rpm Display Size/Resolution: 15.4 inches/1440 x 900 Price as Reviewed: $2199 Nearly a year has passed since Apple released its updated 15-inch MacBook Pro, featuring a...

This week, a California political cartoonist was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. Last December, Apple's App Store police barred his work from its hallowed online halls. As reported Thursday by Harvard University's Nieman Journalism Lab, Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Mark Fiore submitted his cartoon app NewsToons to the App Store Police, only to have it rejected. Fiore's sin: violation of the sacred section 3.3.14 of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, which reads: Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in...