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Games List for iPad's Apr. 3 Launch Leaked

As we reported earlier this week, gaming appears to be an early market for the iPad. Now comes word of some of the games that could be ready to download from the the iTunes App Store when the tablet device begins shipping April 3. Before Apple closed the leaky search engine, a blogger Thursday [...:]

Is Nintendo Stealing an App Developer Trick for Their Next 3DS Console?

Earlier this week, as if in response to the iPhone's incredible gains on the handheld gaming market, Nintendo announced the successor to their popular DS console, the 3DS. The main difference over their earlier, dual screen device? 3D without glasses.
The problem with this approach is that the Nintendo DS' screens are too small [...:]

Some Best Buy Stores to Sell iPads on Launch Day

If you don't purchase an iPad online or in-person at an Apple Store, you may be able to walk into some Best Buy stores come April 3, reports suggest Friday. About half of the electronics giant's retail location could have Apple's tablet device available next week.
The retailer's "Store-within-a-Store" locations, which comprise about half of Best [...:]

THQ Wireless Announces Cute Sim of Star Wars' Mos Eisley Cantina

Star Wars titles on the iPhone tend to be bog-standard, lightsaber-swishing affairs, but THQ Wireless looks like they finally might have a Star Wars game in development that's worth picking up: Star Wars Cantina.
As the title perhaps implies, this is a light-hearted simulation of running a cantina at the famous Mos Eisley Spaceport.
According to [...:]

Control Pioneer's Lastest 7.1 AV Receivers With Your iPhone

Pioneer have just unveiled two new high-powered 7.1 SurroundSound AV receivers… both of which come with a homegrown remote app, making them perfect additions to your home theater set-up if you like to do all of your media control through your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Both the VSX-1020-K and VSX-1120-K feature Bluetooth audio streaming, HDMI 1.4 [...:]

Apple COO Tim Cook Sells Stock Worth $68M

Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook came away Thursday the big winner among a number of Apple executives who cashed-in company stock.
One day after Apple stock granted to four top company executives vested, the 1.1 million shares were sold during a day of record-high trading in the Cupertino, Calif. firm.

For Cook, who recently was awarded [...:]

Wall Street Journal Looks Behind The Door of Apple's Board

After Jerome York's recent death, the Wall Street Journal has an interesting overview of the history and composition of Apple's Board.
Apple's current board is only made up of six individuals, making it one of the smallest boards of the Fortune 500.
One of the reasons Apple's board is so small is that one of [...:]

AdMob: iPhone OS Now Accounts for 50% of Smartphone Internet Traffic

There's a new king in town.
According to mobile advertising company AdMob, Apple's iPhone OS now accounts for fifty percent of worldwide smartphone traffic on its networks, increasing its share from 33 percent just a year ago.
The iPod Touch is also a huge winner: although it's not a smartphone, the iPod Touch lead AdMob's [...:]

Video: Geohot to Release Zero Day Jailbreak of iPad?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=__TR86PLiHw
You may want to put your Mac on mute — audiophonic doofus explosion incoming — but what you're looking at here is the first working, untethered jailbreak of the iPhone 3Gs and iPod Touch G3… and if its developer is to be trusted, it should work on the iPad when it comes out next Friday [...:]

Analyst Expects 30 Percent Higher iPad Sales in 2010

Almost a week before Apple is expected to begin selling the iPad, an analyst has increased this year's sales estimate for the tablet device by 30 percent. Apple may also release a new iPhone in June, along with seeing a 17 percent jump in Mac sales, the analyst adds.
BMO Capital analyst Keith Bachman told investors [...:]