Apple released the following announcement this morning…
CUPERTINO, Calif., May 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that it sold its one millionth iPad™ on Friday, just 28 days after its introduction on April 3. iPad users have already downloaded over 12 million apps from the App Store and over 1.5 million ebooks from the new iBookstore.
Read MoreAre you curious as to how much faster the new MacBook Pros are? The folks over at Primate Labs have run Geekbench on the new models compared to the ones from 2009, and the results show some significant speed improvements. Check them out for yourself.
http://www.primatelabs.ca/blog/2010/04/macbookpro-benchmarks/
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STM Bags (http://www.stmbags.com) has announced the US$44.95 micro iPad bag for, as you might guess, the Apple iPad. It sports tuck away handles and is designed to protect the new Apple device from scratches and external abuse.
A front flap pocket stows your cords, keys and other sundries. Adjustable and removable shoulder strap also included.
Read MoreIt’s April Fools day, and if you didn’t catch it yet … Google has renamed itself “Topeka”. Why? If you didn’t catch it on the news a while back, Google is looking for communities to do experimental deployment of 1GB Fiber networks at a competitive price for consumers. Over 1100 cities applied, many with some creative video appeals on YouTube (see Westlake Village’s 2 minute video as an example at http://youtube.com/watch?v=rw1f4UJOd2E).
Read MoreWikipedia posted the below on their blog at:
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/03/global-outage-cooling-failure-and-dns/
Global Outage (cooling failure and DNS)
Due to an overheating problem in our European data center many of our servers turned off to protect themselves. As this impacted all Wikipedia and other projects access from European users, we were forced to move all user traffic to our Florida cluster, for which we have a standard quick failover procedure in place, that changes our DNS entries.
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