My weekly roundup of interesting links from around the web. Enjoy.
15 iPad mysteries remain
Think you know all about Apple’s iPad? Here’s what we don’t know
Apple Announces April 3rd Launch Date for Wi-Fi iPad in the U.S. – Mac Rumors
Apple today announced that Wi-Fi models of the iPad will go on sale in the United States on Saturday, April 3rd. 3G-capable models in the U.S., as well as both Wi-Fi and 3G models for a number of other countries, will be available in late April. U.S. preorders for all iPad models begin on March 12th.
Apple Stores will get iPads on March 10th, customers on the 26th? | 9 to 5 Mac
The Examiner has a pretty interesting iPad story for us today.
BBC News – Apple patent case ‘could affect all android phones’
Apple’s legal action against HTC may have "wider implications" for all phone makers using Google’s Android operating system, an analyst has warned.
Foxconn suppliers say no delays on 700,000 iPads in March, a million in April | 9 to 5 Mac
Digitimes today refutes analyst Peter Misek’s assertion that parts shortages will cause delays in shipping the iPad and possibly a smaller, US-only rollout.
Google Acquires DocVerse, Online Collaboration Tool for Microsoft Office – Messaging and Collaboration from eWeek
Google announced the acquisition of DocVerse, which allows for real-time online sharing and simultaneous group editing of PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents. The move represents an addition
One reason why Palm phones aren’t selling | TechBlog | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
When Palm announced last week that its phones weren’t selling well enough to meet either internal goals or Wall Street’s expectations, CEO Jon Rubenstein sent a memo to employees explaining what was being done to fix the problem.
Verizon suffers US-wide data outage | Electronista
Verizon cellphone customers on Wednesday reported a seemingly US-wide data outage. The issue affects both conventional data for all devices as well as messaging services like BlackBerry e-mail and MMS.
Will desktops be irrelevant in three years? | TechBlog | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
For years, the geekerati have been predicting that desktop computers – and in some cases, even the personal computer as a category – soon will be extinct. That prediction has been given new life by a Google executive, who’s even placed a time period on it.
Will the iPad make emergency calls? Regular calls? | 9 to 5 Mac
From the iPad SDK, it looks like the iPad can make emergency calls.
Zune HD Facebook App Gives us Preview of WP7 Apps
At last, the Facebook application for the Zune HD has been released. It has elements of the Metro interface that Microsoft is utilizing on Windows Phone 7 Series devices, and so looking at the this rendition of Facebook, we can get a sense for how other apps would look on WP7.
