Apple Hiring ‘Verizon iPad System Engineers’
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The closer we come to the traditional Apple products yearly refresh, the more rumors we hear about the next generation iPad. About a month ago, analyst Brian Blair from Wedge Partners predicted that the next generation of our favorite gadget will be a “world” device, compatible with both GSM and CDMA technologies, which would allow the device to work on both AT&T and Verizon’s networks. Immediately, rumors about an upcoming Verizon iPad poured in.
Yesterday, Apple itself fueled the same rumor, as a job opening for a “Verizon iPad System Engineer” was posted on its corporate website.
After landing in the App Store about a month ago for iPhone users only, 
Earlier today, Atlanta-based CNN released its new iPad app. The app is not just a port of the iPhone version, or a carbon-copy of the CNN.com website, as it offers a stunning – yet convenient – layout specifically engineered for the tablet.
If you happen to use your iPad a lot while traveling, and need to carry both iPad and laptop, ful designed the Brooklyn bag just for you. The Brooklyn is a stylish, compact iPad travel backpack large enough to fit both a 15-inch laptop such as a MacBook Pro, an iPad, and then some.
Almost exactly a year ago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer presented a slew of Windows powered devices at the 2010 CES, 3 months before the launch of the iPad. A year went by, the iPad successfully launched, several Android tablets made their debut as well, but except the disappointing HP Slate 500, the Windows-powered tablets are still nowhere to be found.
Chillingo fans, rejoice, as the UK-based publisher just released a new version of Cut the Rope for the holiday season. Called 
Dozens of manufacturers are currently working on Android-based tablets, in hopes of taking over Apple’s current position with the iPad, however, when it comes to web performance, the first models available seem to disappoint.
While the iOS 4.2.1 update brought to the iPad a slew of long awaited features such as folders and multitasking, the new version of the OS also introduced a number of bugs impacting a sizable number of iPad users.
About six months ago, the launch of the iPhone 4 and the associated release of iOS 4.0 quietly brought a very little known functionality to iOS devices: a jailbreak detection API (Application Programming Interface), able to detect changes in the iOS device file system. According to Network World, the API was short lived, as it disappeared from iOS 4.2.
An interesting picture coming from Chinese manufacturer Shenzhen MacTop Electronics just emerged: the picture shows a case supposedly designed for the next-gen iPad.
Last week, PadGadget – as well as many other iPad-related sites – ran a story about a guy who used a high power industrial waterjet to slice a large circle through the middle of his iPad (see 
Millions of iPads sell every month, and it didn’t take much time for Apple to quickly become the third mobile PC vendor, thanks to its tablet’s impressive track record. A report published by DisplaySearch earlier today shows that when the iPad is grouped with netbooks, notebooks and competing tablets, Apple dominates the mobile PC market in North America, and ranks number three worldwide, right after HP and Acer, the current market leaders.
Digitimes is again fueling rumors about the next iteration of the iPad, as the Taiwan-based publication just reported that Foxconn – the company that builds iPads on behalf of Apple – has been asked to ramp up the production of the iPad 2 within the next three months.
