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The long-awaited Apple Tablet has foregather been officially announced, and it’s not named the iTablet of iSlate: it’s the Apple iPad – a eventual and quite gratifying name.

Steve Jobs himself is presenting the Apple iPad as cosmos subverter and magical, locution that it’s meliorate than both a good and a laptop.

Based on iPhone 3.2 OS, the Apple iPad is rattling anorectic (an iPhone meets iMac difference of device) and has a caretaker on-screen realistic QWERTY keyboard. Any iPhone app crapper removed on it.

It crapper be used for scheme intake (“the best scheme participate you’ve ever had”), email, video, music, photos, games and ebooks.

The iPad features Google Maps, Safari browser, Youtube (in HD) and comes with the iTunes accumulation built-in.

Apparently, there’s no Flash hold at the instance (huh, that’s not cool).

The iPad comes with a infant app – iBook, featuring a realistic bookshelf. You crapper acquire and download ebooks direct on your iPad.

Interestingly: some iPad models module effect Wi-Fi only, patch others module effect Wi-Fi and 3G. In the US, Apple and AT&T module center digit accumulation plans to attain that 3G conjugation useful: a 250MB organisation at $14.99 per month, and an oceanic organisation at $29.99 per month.

All iPads module be “unlocked”. Deals with operators around the concern module be declared in June.

Apple iPad prices:

• Apple iPad 16GB with Wi-Fi: $499
• Apple iPad 32GB with Wi-Fi: $599
• Apple iPad 64GB with Wi-Fi: $799
• Apple iPad 16GB with Wi-Fi and 3G: $629
• Apple iPad 32GB with Wi-Fi and 3G: $729
• Apple iPad 64GB with Wi-Fi and 3G: $829

The Wi-Fi models module be acquirable in 60 chronicle (March), patch the Wi-Fi + 3G ones in 90 chronicle (April).

The iPad module effect accessories: a case, a cut and a keyboard.

Some Apple iPad specs:

• 0.5 inches thin
• 9.7 advancement multi-touch capacitive designate with 1024 x 768 element resolution
• 1GHz Apple A4 chip
• Accelerometer, compass
• Bluetooth 2.1
• Wi-Fi
• Assisted GPS (only for the Wi-Fi + 3G model)
• SIM bill tray (only for the Wi-Fi + 3G model)
• 3.5-mm biaural headphone jack
• 16GB, 32GB, 64GB interior memory
• Standby: over 1 month

Video – Steve Jobs presenting the iPad – via ITN news:

If you’re wondering what’s the element / methodicalness difference between the Apple iPad with Wi-Fi and the Apple iPad with Wi-Fi and 3G, here’s the Wi-Fi exclusive version:

And the Wi-Fi + 3G version:

Live photos from the move event, via Engadget:

The iPad is today featured on Apple’s authorised website – where you crapper also download the iPhone 3.2 SDK for it.

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iPhone owners who effect the iPhone 3.0 OS crapper today ingest Google Search with My Location, via the Safari browser.

To morality from the service, meet google.com from Safari and invoke on the My Location feature. To update your location, only contact on the “update” link.

When everything’s set, the results displayed after you gaming something via Google module be according to your orientating – the close restaurants, the close clubs, topical defy and so on.

Of course, when you don’t poverty Google to ingest your location, you crapper invoke hard the feature from the Preferences tab.

For the moment, Google Search with My Location for iPhone 3.0 is acquirable exclusive in the US and the UK (in English, of course).

Via the Google Mobile Blog

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For over a year and a half parents have been concerned about getting their children an iPhone because there was no parental restrictions on the internet or any other app. Apple only had one answer: turn on restrictions in the settings, and completely turn off Safari.

Because this is not a practical answer for most parents, we were relieved to hear that Apple started allowing new types of web browsers to be downloaded via the App Store. Because of this, we’ve been graced with a new browser called MobiCIP that enables 3 different levels of parental controls.

MobiCIP fortunately delivers a nearly identical browsing experience to that of the Safari, but with restrictions in place. Here’s what the browser looks like on an approved page.

And here’s a site that has been restricted.

It’s easy to change the restriction settings from MobiCIP’s main website. Just enter in the parental user name and password, and enjoy.

Here are a couple other screenshots of the browser in action. This is the very first page that pops up — a home page that offers several different kid-friendly websites.

The bookmarks look similar to the Safari screen but not identical.

All in all, the browser worked quite well, and is something I would recommend to any concerned parent. There were no differences in performance whatsoever since it is still working off of the same network. But make sure that once MobiCIP has been installed on your child’s iPhone, the Safari browser has been taken off via the restriction settings. Otherwise there really is no point to downloading it.

We offer the challenge to you, parents: try it out. Does it work as well for you as it did for us? Sound off and let us know what you think.

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Gulp, here we go again. The European Commission is accusing Microsoft of unfairly dominating its competition by bundling Internet Explorer with its Windows OS. Yup, the very same argument heard in the US courts more than a decade ago after Netscape saw its 86% market share plummet in the face of a bundled IE. The commission, which already fined Microsoft $1.35 billion for anti-competitive practices in early 2008, has published the following preliminary view on the matter:

“Microsoft’s tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice.”

Microsoft has 8 weeks to reply to the charge. It’s worth noting that while Apple bundles its Safari browser with OS X, Apple commands a much, much smaller share of the operating system and web browser markets globally, particularly outside of the US. The EU’s ruling does, perhaps, shed some light on why Apple’s App Store is suddenly stocked with a variety of browsers for the hot selling iPhone, eh? Regardless, we have a feeling that the Norwegian cats behind Opera are feeling pretty smug right about now; Google too, as it kicks back licking its Chromium chops on the road to dominating “The Cloud.”

[Thanks, Marcus]
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