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Apple’s now shared ‘the most hyped tablet since The Ten Commandments’, and we want you to be the first to hear what’s great (and not so great) about it.

Apple Tablet: The Second Stage Media Booster Rocket.

Here are all the changes Amazon made to their Kindle program.  From being less stingy with their cut of e-book sales to trying to give the suckers away for free, there’s a lot that’s new but nothing that’s remotely innovative. We now know that Amazon’s response to the impending annihilation of their entire electronic publishing [...]

More new Apple tablet details, including twin dock connectors to hook up your tablet to a dock that’ll let you view it in landscape mode and a large antenna panel to counteract the inevitable aluminum back cover.

The most interesting passage is here in bold: “The company’s version of the tablet will feature built-in Wi-Fi utilizing Verizon’s hotspots for free data; the device will switch onto the 3G cellular network when it’s away from a hotspot. This makes it easy and safe to connect to trusted Wi-Fi servers, and you’ll get a line-item [...]

It sure looks like it. More Hints at Apple’s Desire to Hold ‘iPad’ Trademark for Tablet Device – Mac Rumors.

The Apple January 27 special event is confirmed with the words “Come see our latest creation”.

Several new rumors about the new iPhone here.  And the author, Nilay Patel, probably does a mixed job of speculating: ‘The rumor: Another Apple patent application hints that portable DVR functionality is coming to the iPod / iPhone — you'll be able to grab TV and radio content from cable, satellite, OTA, or using “services” [...]

This is just the first of many new features that’ll bring MobileMe right into being your one stop “my personal stuff in the cloud” service. Expect more to come.  These services work even better on ten inch screens, and the iSlate will fill that nicely. AppleInsider | Apple releases MobileMe Gallery software on iPhone App [...]

RXC’s always a great source for visionary insight.  I like his perspective better than anyone’s, personally. ‘Apple will under-promise and over-deliver for the iSlate. And if for some reason they don’t, then they’ll just declare it to be a hobby, like the AppleTV.’ via I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Apple 2010: More of the [...]