If you’re looking to pre-order an iPad today, you’ll notice that shipping dates have been pushed back to April 12th. What’s more, Apple has removed the option to pick up your iPad in-store. It appears Apple simply can’t supply the demand for the first week of iPads, writes 9to5Mac, suggesting high demand for the device.
How many iPads have been sold so far? Some estimates say around half a million – a higher demand than many expected.
If you’ve pre-ordered an iPad for in-store pickup, you’ll still be able to get that between 9am and 3pm next Saturday. After 3pm, Apple stores will sell all the iPads they have on a first come, first serve basis, writes Fortune.
I would love to hear from you if you pre-order a Apple iPad once you pick it up.
Remember the whole legal dust-up over the trademark for the name iPad? Well, now that’s been resolved.
The iPad launch is only a week away and as such, Apple is getting its ducks in a row: accepting submissions for iPad apps to the App Store, making developers use pre-release models in darkened rooms, oh and getting that whole trademark mess cleared up. Yup, as of last week, Apple is the new owner of the name iPad, having purchased the trademark from Fujitsu.
Even before announcing the product, Apple had already filed a request to take the trademark away from its owner Fujitsu. In fact, the two companies have been battling over the mark since last fall, with Apple filing three separate extension requests to challenge the validity of Fujitsu’s ownership.
Fujitsu originally filed for the trademark in March of 2003 but then stopped responding to USPTO requests, seemingly abandoning the mark until it reignited interest in the name in June of 2009. As you can see from the following public record, the mark was transferred to Apple Inc. officially on March 17.
So all that marketing has not been for naught; the iPad is now an official member of the Apple product family.
Wow! This is just huge. I can’t wait to get an i-Pad.
Apple has released one of the hottest products ever to be introduced to the market, and it’s
breaking ground as thousands of customers scramble to purchase the sleek, lightweight
mini computer that is bound to be even more popular than the iPhone or iPad Touch.
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So what does this mean to you and how can you capitalize on the high demand for
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With the new iPad, users can do much, much more including surf the Internet,
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Ever wanted to make presentations a more interactive, Web 2.0 experience?
The PowerPoint Twitter Tools prototypes are now available. Created using SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius (but requiring only PowerPoint for Windows and Adobe Flash to run), the twitter tools allow presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page.
There are currently eight tools – you can easily cut and paste them into your own PowerPoint decks:
• PowerPoint Twitter feedback slides
• PowerPoint AutoTweet
• PowerPoint Twitter voting — bar charts and pie chart
• PowerPoint Twitter ticker bar
• PowerPoint Mood meter
• PowerPoint Crowd meter
• PowerPoint Zoom text
• PowerPoint Twitter update bar
This free PowerPoint Twitter Tool allows you to create tweets and have them posted automatically during your presentation.
