Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 05:56PM Apple just reported monster 2Q earnings and shares are up nearly 6% to $258 in aftre-hours trading. On the conference call Cook said there are no production problems with the iPad per se; but he says demand was much, much stronger than Apple had predicted - adding that the level of initial demand “has shocked us.”
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 09:18AM Apple has officially announced that the 3G models of its iPad will be delivered to US customers who’ve pre-ordered on Friday, April 30, and will be available in Apple retail stores the same day starting at 5:00 p.m.
Yesterday we noted that people who placed orders at the Apple store online would not receive their iPad until May 7.
Monday, April 19, 2010 at 10:33AM 
Any time Ken Auletta puts out new thoughts on the media world its an instant must-read. His "Annals of Communications" column that make far too few apperances in The New Yorker is one of the first things I look for when scanning the table of contents in each week's issue.
In an article titled "Publish or Perish" in this week's issue, Auletta asks "can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business?" Auletta attempts to answer this question in a mere 6,000 words. I haven't read the article yet, but look for my thoughts tomorrow after I've had chance to digest it.
Tip of the Day: Ken Auletta's The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway is required reading for anyone interested in an insider's look at the major players (Rupert Murdoch, John Malone, Barry Diller, Bill Gates, etc) who shaped the communications industry at the dawn of the Internet.
AAPL, AMZN, Amazon, Apple, Kindle, The New Yorker, iPad in iPad Magazines, iPad Reviews Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 10:03PM 
The first iPad apps are now appearing in Apple's iTunes App Store. The App Store section of iTunes now includes toggle buttons that allow the user to switch between iPhone and iPad apps. Currently, MLB.com At Bat 2010 is being featured as the "iPad App of the Week." Among the newspaper iPad apps that can be found are apps for The Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY.
AAPL, App Store, Apple, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, iPad, iTunes, newspaper in iPad Applications Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 09:47PM Gizmodo's Brian Lam has a great post that delicately skewers Apple for not including the titans of the tech blog world (that would be Engadget and Gizmodo) in the early review process by offering up what would have made for a much more interesting slate of reviewers of the iPad than the mainstream media folks that Apple did turn to. Says Lam:
They had the right idea in, well, excluding the usual tech blogs (including Gizmodo.) They aimed for more people who wouldn't nitpick over details and would get the general magic. But with the technical bar all but banished—what use is a review of the user interface if it's pretty much invisible? What use are benchmarks if it's fast enough? What use are comparisons if it stands on its own—They should have gone for straight up influence, and tuned the device for each celebrity reviewer by using apps. And they should have gone all the way. Because this future of computing, it isn't just for geeks.
For example, Lam suggests that Apple should have turned to Martha Stewart, Rachel Ray or Momofuku's David Chang to review the iPad based on the Epicurious app. Or Roger Ebert in the context of the movie watching experience on the iPad.
Read the full post here.