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Apple have had to postpone the iPad’s worldwide launch due to high demand.

Apple iPad

Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad™. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April.

The iPad will now launch worldwide at the end of May with preorders starting on Monday May 10th. iPad fans are sadly going to have to wait a few more weeks unless happy eBay scalpers get your cash.

Source: Apple

The iPad has now been jailbroken.

Geohotz has posted an article on his blog featuring the jailbroken iPad with Cydia and blackra1n on the dashboard. The Jailbreak was made possible by comex and Geohotz.

In the video above you can see the iPad running an N64 emulator with Super Smash Bros and Super Mario 64. Once released, a jailbreak could come in handy for those who wanted to do more with their iPad!

So iPhone OS4 is getting multitasking but what do you get with your iPhone or iPod? Read on to find out!

First gen iPhone/iPod touch: No update to OS 4.0
Second gen iPhone 3g/iPod Touch: Update to OS 4.0, no multitasking.
Third Gen iPhone 3gs/iPod Touch: Update to OS 4.0, including multitasking.

There you have it. First gen owners get nothing, 2nd gen owners get an update but some features missing and 3rd gen owners get everything announced today!

iPhone, iPod touch and iPad fans must be getting excited now. In less than 2 hours, Apple will be showing the world a preview of iPhone OS 4.0.

For those of you unlucky enough not to be there (myself included) here are some liveblog links of the event:

• Computerworld
• Engadget
• Gizmodo
• Slashgear

The wait is almost over!

Wow, Apple have kept the news coming thick and fast recently haven’t they?

This time Engadget are reporting that Apple are due to host an iPhone OS 4 preview event on April 8th.

Not too far away. Lets see what they bring to the popular operating system.
Source: Engadget

BoyGeniusReport have found some references to new iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad models in the latest version of iPhone OS 3.2.

iPhone 3,2, iPhone 3,3, iPod 4,1 and iProd 2,1 all refer to new hardware versions.

The wait is on to see what kind of hardware Apple will be coming out with this year to update it’s iPhone and iPod touch lineup and what upgrades both will recieve!

Source: BoyGeniusReport

Apple have put out a press release that they have sold 300,000 iPads during the first day of sales in the U.S

300,000 of these have left Apple

“It feels great to have the iPad launched into the world—it’s going to be a game changer,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPad users, on average, downloaded more than three apps and close to one book within hours of unpacking their new iPad.”

An impressive feat for Apple and sales will undoubtedly be strong once it hits other shores at the end of April.
Source: Apple

Opera today have submitted their iPhone version of Opera Mini to Apple for approval on the app store and have posted a video of the advantages of their server side compression at work on an EDGE connection.

With an impressive 5 pages loaded to Safari’s one page on EDGE, it really does show how the browser will benefit those with low signal. Opera have aslo posted a competition where you can guess the approval date and the closest guess will win an iPhone! Some are seeing this as Opera putting pressure on Apple to approve it swiftly and to stop them from denying it altogether as Apple will undoubtedly get some bad press if it is rejected for a trivial reason.

Head on over to the competition page (if you hadn’t earlier) to submit your guess to try and win an iPhone 3G

Source: Opera

New York Times has an article that suggests Fujitsu may end up in a legal dispute over the iPad name after Apple’s iPad tablet announcement.

Fujitsu, which applied for an iPad trademark in 2003, is claiming first dibs, setting up a fight with Apple over the name of the new tablet device that Apple plans to sell starting in March.

“It’s our understanding that the name is ours,” Masahiro Yamane, director of Fujitsu’s public relations division, said Thursday. He said Fujitsu was aware of Apple’s plans to sell the iPad tablet and that the company was consulting lawyers over next steps.

More in the links below

Sources: New York Times MacRumors

Apple have unvieled their “latest creation” today called the iPad.

Full specs can bee seen here.

As it lacks some functionality I’d like from a device (No Adobe Flash and no multitasking being the main things) I can’t say I’ll be getting one but it does have some great features for iPhone owners, one of the biggest is that it is fully compatible with Appstore applications and games.

For more info on the iPad, see the official page here.