Apple starts taking iPad orders

Apple began taking pre-orders for its much-hyped iPad tablet computer Friday, some three weeks before the sleek new device goes on sale in the United States.

The first version to be made available on April 3 is a wi-fi-only iPad that will sell for 499 dollars. Later in the month, Apple will release versions that feature the ability to connect to the internet over cellphone networks.

The level of pre-orders for the iPad should provide strong indications of whether it will mirror the popularity of the iPhone, which came to redefine and dominate the smartphone market following its launch in 2007.

Apple is not expected to release information about the level of pre-orders, but the order line was so busy early Friday that callers were placed on hold for some 10 minutes before being connected to sales staff.

“I ordered an iPad anticipating new ways to experience education,” student Kevin Paffrath told PCWorld.com. “I am hoping to use the iPad to take advantage of new innovations such as e-textbooks, magazines, word processing and presentations.”

O2 and Orange bulk up on iPad-friendly SIM cards

O2 and Orange bulk up on i Pad-friendly SIM cards

IPad is that their 3G connectivity via a "micro-SIM card" offer is not some necessary hardware requirements - the device is sufficiently large enough to be a full-size SIM card feature - it's as from Apple to throw a bone to wireless providers after the announcement of the iPad, unlike the iPhone would be offered, "unlocked".


Unlocked it, perhaps, but the micro-SIM option means that consumers not be able to get their online iPad deal with an old SIM card and low-cost data, but will be forced, for whatever micro-SIM Contracts offer opt operator. So who in the UK, such packages are iPad? We asked the operators to find out.

As far as the current iPhone was going to operators, O2 said the upcoming information Pocket-lint: "The Apple iPad is an interesting device, but we have nothing at this time" and "there is
currently no known devices on the O2 portfolio require micro SIMs and as such they are not available from O2. We are ready devices, the micro-SIMs if these devices should be available "while Vodafone came with a" no comment "and we have to support more hear back from Orange, which put the issue on his group press office.

3 said that as far as the micro-SIMs go, "we do not currently field and have no plans to either", Tesco told us that there are "no plans for the launch of SIM iPad" and T-Mobile Virgin Media and not even responded to our requests.

The Carphone Warehouse CEO Andrew Harrison said, in a further statement about the iPad launch: "We are really about all the Slate Tablet products currently in the pipeline and look forward to our customers with additional options for connection and content on consumer countries to meet the future, confident. "

Reports on the network of the two "sources" and the manufacturing company that make the small SIM cards, it is recommended that Orange and O2 UK operators are almost certainly likely through micro-SIM cards and data packages offering, but it seems it will take some time before anyone confirm something - we keep you up to date.

Microsoft fixes browser flaw used in Google breach

Microsoft has the unusual step of issuing an unscheduled update on Thursday for vulnerabilities in its Internet Explorer browser, which conducted a role in the recent computer attacks that Google is threatening to leave China played.

The updates are available for all supported versions of Internet Explorer from IE 5.01 to the latest IE 8th


People who will set their computer to install security updates, you automatically receive the update. PC users should not automatically updates go www.microsoft.com / security to download the patch.


Microsoft said it learned of the problems last autumn and was already planning to publish the updates in February. In the past week confirmed that the attacks of Google Inc. have described here the same mistakes.


Hackers can use people to Web sites with malicious code, then use the browser to lure error page to their computers. Attackers in China may have used the vulnerability to break into the e-mail accounts from human rights activists who oppose the Chinese government. Hackers could have used this flaw to break into their networks, including Google's and that of other large companies such as Yahoo and Juniper Networks Inc.

Microsoft security patches released rare outside the regular, once a month update cycle, it is known to rush patches for so-called "zero day" uses, in which hackers attack a software hole before it has a chance to find a fix. The last time, broke from the Microsoft security update schedule was published in July 2009.

Qwerty smart phone

The handset is part of the Green Heart Series. The phone is a 2.4 inch QVGA touch screen has a resolution of 320 x 240 The phone has excellent connectivity options with 3G, GPRS, EDGE and Wi-Fi. It has USB and microSD card support. It has a camera with 3.2 megapixels. A standard 3.5mm jack has been provided.

The phone runs on the latest version of Windows Mobile. A Qualcomm MSM7227 processor with a speed of 600 MHz running on the phone. It is probably under the title "Faith". It comes in silver and black color created. The price is still under wraps. There are many speculations about this phone.