Apple will open pre-orders for the iPad on Friday, so today TMO readers are talking about their iPad purchasing plans and what the company’s April 3 launch will have on Apple’s stock value.  Read More →

Apple was able to achieve dominance in the MP3 player arena by closely marrying hardware and software, a formula that it has extended to its success with the iPhone and the App Store. As the company gets ready to ship the iPad, the next phase in that evolution, Amazon, Dell, and Google are teaming up on the Dell Streak tablet, which will run the Android OS and have access to 300,000-plus e-books in the Kindle store, the more than 11 million songs... 

Icarus Studios on Wednesday announced the release of the Mac version of its massively multiplayer online game Fallen Earth, offering a Beta of the software to anyone who wants to download and test it. Gamers without current Fallen Earth subscriptions can sign up for a 10-day trial plan.  Read More →

Autodesk on Tuesday unveiled at the Game Developers Conference the 2011 editions of Maya and its other 3D creation software aimed at animators, game developers, and others in creative field  Read More →

Jonathan Schwartz, who was CEO of Sun Microsystems from 2006 until last month, on Tuesday published a blog post that leads off with: “I feel for Google – Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too.” Why? In 2003, he unveiled Project Looking Glass, a prototype Linux desktop, and Mr. Jobs called to threaten a lawsuit because Sun was “stepping all over Apple’s IP.”  Read More →

U.S. cell service provider and Apple iPhone partner AT&T stepped into the Google Android world with the addition of the Motorola Backflip to its mobile phone lineup.  Read More →

Macgamestore.com on Monday announced that it has added Murder, She Wrote to the Mac games available on its site. Players assume the role of murder mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher as she navigates five new cases, complete with hidden objects to find and mini-games available in each scene.  Read More →

Portal 2, the sequel to the acclaimed first-person shooter included in Valve’s Orange Box collection, is headed to Mac, PC, and Xbox 360 this fall; the news was confirmed by scans from the April 2010 issue of Game Informer magazine.  Read More →

In this week’s installment of Free on iTunes, Vern Seward takes a stand on three podcasts; Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know, Weird Week, and Geek Entertainment Television.  Read More →

Changes on The Moscone Center’s calendar of events show that an unspecified “Corporate Event” that could be Apple’s 2010 World Wide Developer Conference  has been moved from June 28th – July 2nd to June 23rd – June 24th. Sun Microsystem’s JavaOne Conference had been scheduled during that time frame, but that event is no longer on the calendar.  Read More →

The Deal Brothers noted that Apple is offering the refurbished Apple Time Capsule 500GB Wireless Hard Drive for $139.99, and that’s $20 less than the previous price. The unit ships for free and includes one year of AppleCare.  Read More →

In this week’s amassing of technical news debris, John points to several essential references for Apple customers, one comic relief item, a very telling SAI Chart of the Day and finishes with a question for the readers about the iPad.  Read More →

Several photographs of Microsoft’s not-yet-announced Courier tablet device have been leaked to Engadget. The photos of what could be Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s iPad show a two panel device that folds shut like a book that is reliant on pen-based input.   Read More →

The world of broadcast, cable and Internet TV is in an extreme state of chaos.  While it seemed like a good idea to provide many avenues for consumers to obtain TV content, those many channels have also led to money squabbles and abrupt changes in programming. For example, Viacom, on March 9, will pull The Daily Show and The Colbert Report from Hulu.  Is there a way out of the chaos?  Read More →

Shares in Apple Inc. moved into record territory on Friday on the news that Apple had announced a shipping date for its iPad. The company said the device would ship April 3rd, 2010, and be available for pre-order on March 12th, and the news sent the stock to US$219.49, a gain of $8.78 (+4.17%) on heavy volume in the early afternoon trading session.  Read More →