When Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) announced to the world that they managed to move 1 meeellion (1 “million,” for you non-Dr. Evil fans) iPad units in less than a calendar month since launching – in just the US marketplace, nonetheless – many pundits came away decently impressed. Were this to happen to any other troupe, everybody and their grandmas would be standing on their chairs and cheering in upheaval. For Apple, though, it’s just another product launch. But, that doesn’t mean the financial ramifications ar to be ignored. As Business Insider points out, Apple could relocation as many as 2 meg iPads in its first base calendar quarter of sales – that would spring the troupe more than $1 one thousand million in iPad revenue in just the launch quarter.

Figure it this means. Take Apple’s 1 meg iPad sales and multiply that by an average merchandising monetary value of $650. That gets you $650 meg in iPad gross – likely even higher at the meter of this committal to writing. If it takes Apple another two months to relocation another one-half meg iPad units, they’ll rich person already broken the $1 one thousand million gross roadblock in a single poop. That’s definitely not fool variety.

Chew on this – Apple as a whole pulled in $1.8 one thousand million in revenue for the June 2000 quarter. This quarter could rival that gross from just the iPad alone.

We’ll keep an oculus on iPad gross sales for you and let you know if Apple manages to hit the $1 billion mark before the oddment of this poop. Do you think it’s possible?

[Via: BusinessInsider]

Just as we expected, ABC has released an update of its Player diligence that will flow videos over wireless information networks.

The app gives you approach to a diversity of ABC’s shows on demand with some ads. The program is quite polished and it has a slick substance abuser port. On the down feather sides, not all of the shows’ backrest catalogs ar available and there’s some inconsistent orderings of shows. We’re distillery testing it out and will net ball you know how the video quality is over 3G but the wireless local area network variation had some high gear-calibre videos with cool features like high-hurrying scrub. While we employment on a video of the 3G version, check out the demo below for a walk through of the app on a wireless local area network-only iPad.

– Download rudiment Player app for iPad (free) [iTunes Link]

Android has suffered from limited internal storage for applications since it’s early days, and that problems distillery continues today. Only a select few phones rich person a decent amount of internal storage, which has prompted developers to create the choice for rooted Android devices. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has said it’s been workings on an official localization for this, and it may be right field around the street corner.

AndroidAndMe got this little hint from the official Google Android Code page, where the status of the issue 1151 changed from ‘assigned’ to ‘future tense liberation’. The Android engineer that made the variety, San, left a short letter for those interested:

Apologies, but I’m not permitted to disclose scheduling selective information – suffice to say it’s coming soon 

Sorry for being vague, and thank you for your continued solitaire – I sincerely appreciate it.

Happy friday 

So with that said, it’d be an easy assumption that the official solution of Apps2SD advent down the pipe in Android 2.2, otherwise known as Froyo. Yes, that agency we’re departure to be seeing automatic diligence updates, Flash 10.1 documentation, and now applications volition be able to be stored onto the SD card. I’m sure Google had to make a way to encrypt the hell out of the subject so that apps tin not just be ‘traded’ with users who just barter their SD card game to install apps.

Froyo is really look good right field about now. Too bad we volition probably have to wait until June to actually receive the update. Hopefully all of the leaked features aren’t all the changes, but I’m sure not complaining. But I guesswork getting a nice preview of the new changes at the Google I/O volition aid stave off the cravings.

One matter I could regard for, in summation to automatic pistol updates in the Android Market, is for the Market itself to be updated to shuffle app find easier.

What other features ar you look forward to in the upcoming Android 2.2 update?

[Via: AndroidAndMe]

There ar a goodness figure of websites that ar now run HTML5 video players that will tally flow embedded videos to the iPad without kicking you out to the YouTube app. Facebook is not unity of this websites. Well, we should clarify by saying that Facebook is not exploitation the HTML5 video recording player, but it is now iPad-compatible when it comes to playing in-web browser videos. All new videos uploaded to the social networking site can now be viewed on the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) tablet. That’s goodness news for vane-understanding sociable butterflies with a newly acquired iPad addiction.

What’s the big deal, you ask? Well, let us remind you that the iPad does not support Adobe’s Flash engineering. That agency any website exploitation a Flash-based video actor is departure to take a big ‘ole dump on your iPad when you hit that little “play” button. That’s just how it is. If you don’t like it, you mightiness wish to try writing an electronic mail to Steve Jobs (we hear he’s real number receptive to such emails).

Facebook is getting around this problem by serving up specially-coded videos that the iPad tin play in the Safari web browser. When Facebook detects an iPad perusal it’s website, it knows to push to you this special savour of video, which uses the iPad’s Quicktime video actor. To get all technical foul, Facebook transcodes the videos into Quicktime-friendly versions based on the h.264 codec.

It’s not all goodness news though. Only new video recording uploads ar encoded in h.264. If you try observation an old video on the iPad, you’ll find you’re still out of fortune.

What’s interesting here is that Facebook is not falling in occupation with many other websites that ar adopting the HTML5 video actor. Whether this is a deliberate breaking from the crowd or an lag solution until Facebook can go fully HTML5, we’re not sure.

Either means, score one for the iPad!

[Via: ReadWriteWeb

“One of the primary election reasons we switched to T-Mobile was its Wi-Fi calling oblation, the only single of its sort,” said Jeremiah David, conductor of engineering exploitation, EOI Robert William Service Company. “This lineament enables our agents to remain connected when travel to remote areas of the U.S. and, when combined with T-Mobile River’s international reach, T-Mobile’s Wi-Fi career service provides international calling and emailing anywhere abroad without roaming fees.”

Further underscoring its committal to provide its customers with high gear-economic value Wi-Fi calling solutions, T-Mobile today unveiled its new T-Mobile River Solution Providers programme, a cooperative deed between T-Mobile River and best-in-class WLAN resellers/organization integrators to ensure customers ar both optimized for UMA and rich person part-optimized Wi-Fi networks. The program provides customers with a broader solution exercise set and additional expertise that complements T-Mobile River’s existing Wi-Fi calling products and services. Further, the collaborative booking provides customers with a streamlined experience, thereby offering the opportunity for both monetary value savings and increased efficiencies.

“While some ar just now jumping onto the Wi-Fi calling bandwagon, we’ve long offered our customers the exemption to make calls from almost anywhere while retention costs down feather. We’re excited about the borrowing of Wi-Fi technology and are continuing to look for shipway to optimize the experience for our customers — from Wi-Fi Calling with MobileOffice to our new T-Mobile River Solution Providers program,” said Femi Lakeru, vice president, Business Sales at T-Mobile USA.

To further improve productivity and reduce telecom costs, T-Mobile also offers Wi-Fi Calling with MobileOffice(SM), an exclusive overhaul that enables organizations to extend their desktop phone functionality to a mobile gimmick. T-Mobile River’s Wi-Fi Calling with MobileOffice uses the BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System (MVS) to mobilize PBX systems, delivery spot earphone features to BlackBerry smartphones. Available upon petition, T-Mobile River offers the “5 Simple Steps: T-Mobile Talks Wi-Fi Calling with MobileOffice” video recording that highlights how easy the merchandise is to install and deploy.

The LG Fashion Touch campaign pairs two of the most fashionable phones with two of the world’s most well-known fashion enthusiasts. LG partnered with the famous friends because their unique personal styles full complement the designing aesthetic of the handsets and their friendly relationship aligned perfectly with the dual product launch. LG Lotus Elite is bold and edgy, which is a reflection of capital of Seychelles’s stylus. LG Rumor Touch is a sleek and more classically designed handset, which is a reflection of Eva’s style.

“We don’t believe you should have to compromise your personal style or productivity, when it comes to your selection of mobile phone,” said Ehtisham Rabbani, frailty prexy of marketing and instauration for LG Mobile Phones. “With new touchscreen engineering, LG genus Lotus Elite and LG Rumor Touch deliver the topper in functionality and way. We ar thrilled to be working with capital of Seychelles and Eva; their involvement in the campaign highlights the relevancy of our designing credo and reinforces the LG stylus heritage.”

The serial of MTV vignettes, produced and directed by documentarist Doug Keeve, depict Eva and Victoria and 2 very talented up and coming way designers -Yotam Solomon and Oday Shakar – as they collaborate together in cooking for the big way result in Los Angeles May 24. Tasked to create groundbreaking pieces influenced by the estimate of being fashionable in a technological and socially-connected worldly concern, Yotam and Oday manipulation their LG phones to gathering inhalation for their designs. Their creations will be revealed at the event.

The photographic print ads launch the week of May 3 nationally and volition run position-by-position, allowing readers to clearly visualize the wave-particle duality of the campaign. The ads were blastoff by way lensman, Ellen Von Unwerth and lineament Eva and capital of Seychelles sitting with their respective phones. Both women wearing fashions that reflect their personal stylus and the designing aesthetic of their handsets. The ads are featured in weekly magazines as well as fashion-driven monthlies. Banner ads also feature the images.

To engage consumers, LG created the Fashion Touch Style Quiz on the LG Fashion Touch Facebook page www.facebook.com/LGFashion. By taking the quiz, fashionistas tin find out what phone and style best suits them and participants will be entered into a sweepstakes for a probability to winnings tickets to the LG Fashion Touch event in May.

To celebrate the partnership and the culmination of the campaign, Victoria and Eva will server an LG scoop party that will reflect the intersection of way and engineering. Guests of the party will include celebrities, stylists and fashion insiders who are known for flaunting their unique ‘way touch.’

The stylish LG Lotus Elite and LG Rumor Touch are successors to the popular LG genus Lotus and LG Rumor. LG and Sprint are proud to offer consumers LG genus Lotus Elite and LG Rumor Touch in an expanded diverseness of stylish colors. These sleek and fashionable electronic messaging devices pass users a more advanced handset with the additions of touchscreen engineering and new scoop features. Available in new colors on April 19 in all Sprint retail channels including www.sprint.com, LG genus Lotus Elite will come in red and blackness for $99.99 with a new 2-class overhaul correspondence and $50 mail-in rebate and LG Rumor Touch (currently available in black) volition now be available in Red and Purple for $79.99 with a new two-year overhaul correspondence and $50 mail-in-rebate.

Remember how that fourth-multiplication iPhone leaked earlier this workweek? Well, it looks like the police ar going to get involved to see if there were any laws broken.

This is the supposed floor: An Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) baseband applied scientist was testing a paradigm next-gen iPhone out in the wilderness and then he had some delicious German beer and left the highly-coveted handset in a prevention. Some scumbag found it, supposedly tried to return it to Apple but was rebuffed. So, he of course of action sells it to Gizmodo for at least $5,000 and that web site received a boatload of dealings.

You tin argue about the moral philosophy of this but the Silicon Valley police ar going to investigate if there were any laws broken because Apple considered the device stolen. Apple has reportedly spoken with the police force about this investigating and the Santa Clara County’s information processing system law-breaking sectionalisation is trying to kind this out. Of short letter is Golden State penal code 485:

One who finds lost property under lot which give him cognition of or means of inquiry as to the true proprietor, and who appropriates such property to his own use, or to the use of another human not entitled thereto, without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the proprietor and to restore the prop to him, is guilty of larceny.

There’s some gray areas with what is “reasonable and just efforts,” as the person who sold the handset said he tried to running down feather the proprietor. Of course of action, that floor could be complete bullshit to cover up for some hardcore corporate espionage. As for Giz, there’s also some concern that it could face charges for buying and possessing stolen property. In a needlessly cheeky response to Apple, the publishing made it clear that it didn’t know the handset was stolen when it purchased it.

Nothing beat generation a goodness crime play folks, so we’ll hold our eyes on this one.

[Via CNET]

RipCode is butting its drumhead in Steve Jobs’ war on Flash, as the transcoding company is helping content providers bring Flash videos to the iPad.

The troupe said it volition employment with web sites to create a transcoding layer that tin enable users to view Flash videos on their iPads. They’re betting that many video recording sites ar not quite ready to switching fully to another engineering like HTML5 and RipCode said its product is essentially a video recording-dealing layer in the cloud. This means it won’t involve long consignment or buffer times for the oddment drug user. Because it’s done in the backrest oddment, companies won’t have to vexation about upsetting Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s new terms of service for iPhone 4.0.

“The ‘Flash on iPad’ dilemma is really just the latest in a long job of speeding bumps on the road towards ‘any-content, any-time, any-situation, any-gimmick’ that we all desire,” said RipCode CEO Brendon Mills, in a prepared financial statement. “Fortunately, our technology removes this roadblock in a means that is attractive to subject hosters, a key gimmick manufacturer, a keystone video recording player supplier, and the end user alike.”

It’s poise beans but I’m wondering if the lack of Flash is just making publishers adapt to the somewhat-inevitable HTML5 future tense. Netflix, The New House of York Times and other heavy hitters rich person already adopted to reaching the highly-coveted iPhone OS demographic. Well, regardless, RipCode’s solution is an interesting device in the storey.

[Via RipCode]

Medialets, who provides a rich media advertising, and mobile analytics platform, has released an Ad software development kit for Android, devising it the first base interbreeding-chopine, net freelance, rich media solution for mobile devices.

The new Ad SDK  makes it possible to deliver rich, mobile specific ads to the iPhone, and little honey oil automaton devices like the Nexus One. Advertisers can then comparison prosody between the chopine to see how well their ads ar doing. By offering  a single answer, Medialets makes it easier for the advertiser to reaching the particular audience they intend to, and by comparing prosody from different platforms shuffle it easier for them to alter their hunting expedition to get the right field attention on a specific operating organization.

With the influx of mobile app usage, and smartphone users in general, having the power to get your ads out to the two hottest platforms will be very appealing. With a sophisticated dashboard to see how the  metrics between the platforms push-down storage up, advertisers tin see what ads iPhone users potentially would find themselves clicking on, and it’s the same with Android. Though they are both very similar in multiple ways, iPhone and Android users have different tastes and respond to different content.

Medialets volition be face some steep competition in the near future. Rumors that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) could be announcing its iAd  chopine – on top of the new features of the iPhone 4 OS – sound possible. And if Google (NSDQ: GOOG) finally obtains AdMob, then Medialets sure had their work cut out for them. Apple’s iAd, however, volition probably not be cross-platform, where AdMob is, and that’s where Medialets volition discovery their greatest rival. Only time tin tell if the landscape will variety when these newer mobile ad chopine ar announced, officially.

Medialets is allowing sign-ups for new and existing customers to get their custody on the initial public beta of the Android Ad SDK.

[Via: MedialetsBlog]

Google Buzz for mobile is now integrated in Google Maps 4.0 too.You can activate the Buzz’s bed from the Maps main menu to explore pictures or updates from others.

Other new features added with 4.0 includes:

Use Labs to try experimental features like the Scale Bar or Terrain bed (great for hiking enthusiasts!). See nearby businesses at an address or localization by selecting a point from the map. Report a problem with the map data or a business itemization.