Apple has begun a demonstration of the first mobile network infomercial iAd, optimized for the iPad . They began advertising the new movie "Tron: the legacy of" Studio Disney. This year it will be the only spot for the iPad, but in January there will be new.

IAd format designed specifically for devices based on iOS, he uses the most of platforms: video, audio and interactive elements with multi-touch control, etc. Advertising "Throne" will appear in an annex on films such as TV Guide. It lasts 10 minutes, it demonstrates the fragments of film, theater, images, sounds and audio track, you can immediately, without leaving the advertising purchased through iTunes. For the first time in iAd can operate directly from infomercial to send email (perhaps to advise the film to friends).

Apple has not published data about the audience iAd . While iAd for iPhone runs only in the U.S., Britain and France. The next year she will appear in Germany and Japan.

Released a full-featured version of Google Docs for the iPad

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

The head of Time Warner Ann Moore (Anne Moore) reported that approximately three months for periodicals this company will be subscription. Now we can only buy individual issues, and by no means an attractive price, roughly corresponding hard copy publications. With the introduction of a subscription, this price will drop sharply.

Subscribe to some other publications for owners iPad is already available, in particular, you can subscribe to the Wall Street Journal.

Moore also said that she believes iPad more technologically advanced than its competitor Kindle . In her view, the main disadvantage of the latter is the absence of a color screen. Inside Amazon say that the color Kindle may not be for several years because the technology of electronic ink has not yet allow it to do.

"We are very delighted iPad , because he really pushes all in the world of color, – said Moore. – I was unable to convince the Amazon, at least alone.

Via Electronista

Manufacturers of games for the platform iPhone OS decided not to stay away from the popular trend today the introduction of 3D-technology wherever possible. Developer insanely popular game Flight Control HD for iPhone / iPod touch, an Australian company Firemint, stated that it intends to release a 3D-version of the toy specifically for the tablet iPad .

"With the release of" Avatar, "" Alice in Wonderland "and announcements 3D-television discussion on the topic of three-dimensional technology picked up noticeably," – says CEO Firemint Robert Murray (Robert Murray).

Of course, introduces a new version of the game will be on the old anaglyph technology, which has already nearly half a century. Murray said it would give the game charm – she is just about the so-called "golden age" of aviation.

Murray himself admits that all this will be done only for fun, and he does not expect that people will really walk on the street with "PhotoFrame" and "colored" glasses.

Via TechRadar

The well-known analyst firm iSuppli has submitted its sales forecast planshetnika from the company Apple.

So, this year alone Apple should put 7 million devices (although I have been forecasts of 8.10 million) in the 2011 this number increase to 14.4 million, and in 2012 it will be altogether 20.1 million units.

The main factors of the rapid growth of sales iSuppli calls an updated operating system iPhone OS, as well as the fact that the iPad has no competitors. But this, of course, a matter of time: announced and ready for release already dyuzhena similar devices, which together may be killed sales iPad – but hardly noticeable, because of the "Apple" tablet is a whole army of fans of Apple.

Via Digitimes

Apple on its official website has posted a list of Web sites, friendly iPad («iPad ready»). These sites can be viewed without a plug-in Flash. Some of them support the HTML 5. It also includes a form with which you can add to the list of new sites. This kind of course Apple's promotion of HTML 5 and the side of avoiding Flash as an industry standard video.

"At the iPad installed Safari, mobile Web browser that supports the latest web standards such as HTML 5, CSS 3 and JavaScript, – the site says. – Here are a few sites that are using these standards, they look great and function on the iPad ».

Among the sites list: news sources CNN, Reuters, New York Times, Sports Illustrated, site of the American baseball league, the company Virgin America and even the White House, services Flickr and Vimeo.

It is interesting that a month ago Website Virgin America specifically refused to Flash for the iPhone and iPad. So it can be considered the beginning of a typical trend.

Via AppleInsider

According to CNet, Apple will provide their own streaming music service is not immediately with the start of sales iPad (April 3), and later in the year. This service, as previously reported, will enable users to store their own music on Apple servers and listen to it streaming from any device.

For many, this information will be disappointed because it was thought that the new service will immediately work on the iPad.

Recall that in December last year, Apple has acquired digital music service from Lala to turn it into a remote mediahranilische and connect to iTunes.

Via AppleInsider

Resource PMPToday published photograph of one of the first clones iPad . The manufacturer is not known. Of the known characteristics of a processor – 600-MHz SOC-chip ARM. Yes, the operating system – Android, in spite of the similarity of a home screen with the iPad.

Via PMPToday

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