Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:‘Hundreds Of Thousands’ Of iPads Pre-Ordered, Says WSJ (AAPL) — Apple’s iPad is off to a solid start, which could lead Wall Street to increase its Apple estimates for the year sooner than later. Apple has taken “hundreds of thousands” of pre-orders for the tablet, according to the WSJ.
Wall Street Journal:Apple Races to Strike Content Deals Ahead of iPad Release — Apple Inc. is still working to secure content for the iPad with just weeks to go before the tablet computer’s release, said people familiar with the matter, as the company tempers some of its initial ambitions for the much-hyped device.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:China Mobile Getting Desperate for iPhone, iPad Deal? — Four years after starting talks with Apple, China Mobile, China’s largest wireless phone operator, is still seeking to add the iPhone to its smartphone lineup. But these days, the company sounds a bit more optimistic about a deal.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:Google TV Should Finally Push Apple TV Beyond A “Hobby” — For the past couple of years now, when talking about the Apple TV product, Apple likes to throw out the word “hobby.” It’s as if they’re ashamed of the device. And considering sales are anemic next to Macs, iPods, and...
At LinuxCon in Portland, Ore., on Monday, Linus Torvalds said that Linux is getting bloated and with no plan in sight to change that. Moderator James Bottomley cited an internal Intel study that tracked kernel releases, which showed that Linux performance had dropped about two percentage points at every release, for a cumulative drop...
You can never know enough about Firefox. I’ve been using it for many years now, and I am still uncovering its vast depths. There are many features that you may not know about, and I definitely won’t have enough room here to cover them all. Therefore, I’ll start off with the ones I think...