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Apple Sells 300K iPads, Follow Discovery's ISS Mission on Twitter

by Warren Riddle on April 5, 2010 at 11:58 AM


Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
  • Apple has released the initial iPad sales numbers, and -- while certainly impressive -- the stats still fall short of some of the early and exaggerated expectations. According to the company, consumers purchased 300,000 iPads on Saturday, downloaded over 1 million apps, and checked out over 250,000 iBooks from the brand new iBookstore. [From: Business Insider]
  • The Discovery space shuttle was successfully launched this morning, and the vessel is now en route to the International Space Station. Land lubbers can follow the action live through the official Twitter accounts of NASA and various members of the Discovery's seven-person crew. [From: Information Week]
  • Tiffany & Co. sued eBay in 2004, claiming that 70-percent of the alleged Tiffany products listed with the online retailer were fake. A federal appeals court has sided with eBay, determining that the site had adhered to the proper protocol for preventing counterfeit sales as outlined by trademark laws. Representatives for Tiffany do believe that the ruling may enable it to pursue false advertising claims, though. [From: Blogging Stocks]
  • The iPad may have just officially launched on Saturday, but it has already been jailbroken. Exploiting an iPhone 3.1.2 vulnerability, which also apparently plagues the new tablet, the Apple scourge known as MuscleNerd was able to become the first reported iPad hacker. [From: OS News]
  • Spirit, the NASA rover that has been deployed on Mars for six years, has apparently grown sick of its meddling, intrusive parents at NASA, and is reportedly ignoring commands to call home. The vehicle may have entered into a hibernation mode in order to save power, though, so scientists are hoping that it will rouse itself from its lazy slumber. [From: Daily Tech]
  • According to officials with Mozilla, almost one-third of the world's Internet users access the Web through its Firefox browser, and that number amazingly climbs to 80-percent for the U.S. market. The company has released a breakdown of the statistics, which includes an impressive glimpse at usage patterns across the United States. [From: Network World]

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