Apple has officially announced that the first week of sales iPad sold over 500 thousand pieces. Meanwhile, research firm Net Applications has made the first measurements of traffic from the new device. At the iPad has 0.04% of total Internet traffic, which corresponds to the March performance for Android and BlackBerry.

Number of Android and BlackBerry devices on the market far more than the iPad, which suggests that the owners iPad on average much more work on the web. What, in general, it is logical, given the screen size and speed.

The main search engine for iPad is Google: it holds 97.43% of all search queries. While Google's iPad is the default search settings you can change it to Yahoo, which made the whole 1.98% of users. At Bing come just 0,27% of the owners iPad.

Traffic iPhone and iPod touch is at the level of 0,6%, which is about 20 times more than the iPad.

Via AppleInsider

Twitter has found another, perhaps the most original way of monetization. Yesterday, the U.S. Library of Congress announced the acquisition of the entire archive Twitter messages from March 2006. This library is the largest in the world, in addition to its printed edition it contains a large number of digital publications of various formats.

In the library consider purchasing archives Twitter an important event. Apart from a purely historical significance (as in Twitter , as in a mirror, reflected all the world events), files can be used for various research projects in the field of sociology, linguistics, etc.

"Get ready to witness a serious step forward in scientific progress, – said one of the bloggers library Matt Raymond (Matt Raymond). – I am not Doctor, but I was very impressed by how much we can learn about yourself and the world around us from this incredible amount of information. And I am sure that we learn things that we can not even imagine. "

However, a number of interesting questions answers yet. For example, if a library receives, together with reports information about who is for anyone watching? Will it sell or license the archives of other organizations and companies? Will there be open access to the archives and all comers, whether there search function? And what about Facebook, which is much more base communications? Perhaps the answers to these questions will be available in the coming days.

Via ReadWriteWeb

General Manager of Toshiba's digital products Jeff Barney (Jeff Barney) said that his company will release a tablet based on Windows 7, and Android.

Tablet Android will be very close to the iPad, with 10-inch screen, but a more affordable price. Model for Windows will be more expensive, it will be a number of advanced features, such as two screens (something like Courier ?).

"We definitely see a niche for a tablet, it has a market, – said Barney. – It will be inclusive rather than kannibalistichnym "(that is, it will create a new market segment, but does not kill others).

At Toshiba already have similar products, such as Journe Touch-based Windows CE. This device is "sharpened" at work in the Internet, but does not support third-party applications. The new plates that will be corrected.

According to unconfirmed reports, which refers to Electronista, the new Toshiba Tablet will come late this year or early next.

Via Electronista

British Blog Techradar published photos of the first UK card type microSIM from Vodafone. Such cards are used in the iPad . They are somewhat similar to the usual SIM-card, although a bit smaller and have a number of additional functions. Issuance of these cards – a good sign that Apple and will not tarry long with sales iPad on Foggy Albion.

Via TechRadar

Twitter has announced that from now on profit for the company is a top priority. While this at the main microblog world's big problems.

On Wednesday, Twitter CEO Evan Williams outlined the main directions, which should help make the service profitable: a simplified user interface, tighter integration with Web sites that focus on mobile devices and advertising network on the basis of paid tweets.

"Money is important, – said Williams, unceremoniously with the choice of words: – To support Twitter need damn lot of money (hell of a lot of money). We need a very serious revenue base to ensure it.

"Now in Twitter works 175 people, and yesterday we announced our strategy of monetization. However, the question of IPO is not yet ", – said co-founder Biz Stone Twitter (Biz Stone).

Currently, the ad engine Twitter works in trial mode with all five advertisers.

Recently, the number of users Twitter has exceeded 100 million, and the company hopes to attract at least another as much in the next few years.

Via Reuters

DropBox – a popular free store any files on the Internet. It allows you to spread, synchronize and distribute individual files and folders, and with any device and across any number of users. To do this, just install a special client DropBox.

While the service does not support smartphones based on Windows Mobile , but the developers started to think in that direction. They invite all who wish to have this service on your WM-Smartphone, tell them about it using the form, and to propose some specific functions. This can be done on site DropBox.

Via WMPoweruser

Fishlabs Games Studio added fuel to the fire of rumors surrounding the tablet Nokia – said that in cooperation with Nokia to create games of a device with a large screen and graphics based on OpenGL ES 2.0. When will the game or tablet itself, representatives of the studios are not told.

In principle, it is likely that we are talking about some sort of flagship smartphone N8. However, the phrase "big screen" is usually not to characterize the smart phones, even more.

Officially, Nokia does not confirm plans for a tablet, but it has repeatedly stated that she was interested in other types of devices other than phones. Nokia already sells a netbook Booklet 3G, and the popularity of iPad, coupled with the development of 3G and touch screens – too great a temptation to stand apart from these trends.

Via Electronista

Twitter has announced plans to launch a formal application for Android. According to CEO Evan Williams (Evan Williams), the approach will be the same as when creating a client for the BlackBerry and iPhone: the official application will compete with the informal. He did not indicate whether Twitter to buy ready-made application to the side or it will be developed from scratch.

For Android already exist informal client application Twitter, Seesmic and such Twidroid. At Motorola MOTOBLUR, HTC Peep and some other smart phones have their own means of access to Twitter.

Williams said that his company pay great attention to supporting mobile devices and want new users of these devices was as simple as possible and more convenient to work in Twitter .

Via Electronista

U.S. National Committee on Labour in its report accusing Microsoft of using low-skilled labor and low-paid Chinese adolescents. More precisely, using them is not itself Microsoft, but Chinese contractors, are available for Microsoft computer mouse. In particular, the report mentions the factory KYE, which operates thousands of students aged 16-17 years who work there during the summer holidays. Sometimes attract and adolescents 14-15 years. According to the report, this is equivalent to the use of child labor.

In this company, even staff members – mostly girls under 25 years. Both full-time and seasonal workers are working very long and for low wages. A typical employee spends at the factory 15 hours a day, seven days a week, often he is forced to work overtime. Workers live in dormitories have the right to leave only for a fixed time. Payment for this spartan work is about 65 cents an hour. Food employees shall not be granted.

KYE very strongly rejected these accusations, Microsoft took a more balanced position – stated that it would hold its own investigation.

KYE – factory known, it delivers the goods for giants such as Acer, Asustek, BestBuy, Foxconn, HP, Logitech and Samsung. These companies have not yet commented on the report of the committee.

The problem of child and adolescent labor in Chinese factories IT is not the first time pops up on the front pages. Officially, the Chinese laws prohibit such conditions, as described above, but the execution of these laws almost do not follow that it is not surprising: Many thanks to low wages and minimal social obligations of the Chinese products so successfully compete in the global market.

Via Electronista

Apple finally added to iPhone multitasking in a new firmware iPhone OS 4.0. At the same time she noticed that the iPhone 3G and older models of multitasking will not work, like do not try. This video refutes this pessimistic forecast.

Hacker cdevwill by hacking the firmware 4.0 and modify the file N82AP.plist successfully added multitasking on 3G. Of course, used in the demonstration application is not very demanding of memory, but the fact is remarkable.

Via PMPToday