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January 2010
Apple’s big reveal: it’s called the iPad
Ending months, if not years, of speculation, today Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s mystery product. It’s called the iPad and many of the rumors about what it is were right on target.
In form and function, it looks like a large iPod Touch. It has a touchscreen, a single button at the bottom and an aluminum back. It can be used to browse the Web, pull up Google Maps and browse photos, all the things you’d expect to do on an Internet-connected iPod Touch or iPhone. It has an on-screen virtual keyboard like those products, but because of the size of the screen, it’s much closer in size to an actual keyboard.
It includes iTunes for downloading music, TV shows and movies and can apparently play YouTube videos in HD quality. It has a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen, is half an inch thick and will come in 16-Gigabyte, 32 GB and 64 GB sizes. It runs on a 1-GHz processor, which is not extremely fast for a laptop, but is probably swift for something modeled on a cell phone or mobile media player.
It’ll of course have apps — some demonstrated today included video games, a New York Times app and an app called “Brushes” for fingertip painting/drawing, like the app currently available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The device is available in three Wi-Fi versions and three versions that can access 3G wireless networks. The prices start at $499 for Wi-Fi only, up to $829 for a 64-Gigabyte version with 3G. 3G fees will apply: AT&T will over unlimited access for $30 a month or 250 megabytes a month for $15 on the 3G versions of the iPad. No two-year contract will be required.
Apple’s iPad page is available for more details and videos.
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Live Chat: Apple’s big tablet day and more
Today at 1 p.m. CST, we’ll be discussing Apple’s “New creation” announcement, as well as any other news revealed at the company’s San Francisco event.
Though there’s no official video stream, we’ll be following the news on Engadget, Macworld and NPR, which will all be live-blogging the event when it starts at noon CST. Come join us right after to discuss.
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Twitter CEO to speak at SXSWi
The CEO of Twitter will take part in a keynote interview at South by Southwest Interactive, the festival announced today.
Evan Williams of Twitter will be interviewed by media analyst Umair Haque on Monday, March 15.
SXSW also announced that Valerie Casey will give the March 14 keynote at the festival. She is the founder and director of the Designers Accord. According to the announcement from SXSW: “Casey works with organizations all over the world to create positive social and environmental impact. She has been named a ‘Guru you should know’ by Fortune magazine, a ‘Hero of the Environment’ by Time magazine, and a ‘Master of Design’ by Fast Company.
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SXSW releases initial schedules
Attendees, start your planning: Preliminary schedules are now up at the SXSW Web site.
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SXSWi regular Brad L. Graham dies
Brad L. Graham, known for hosting the “Break Bread with Brad” event at South by Southwest Interactive, has died, the St. Louis Dispatch is reporting. He was 41.
Graham was a theater publicist and a social-networking pioneer. He’s also credited with coining the term “blogosphere”.
The time of death is unknown, and Graham is thought to have died of natural causes, according to the Dispatch story.
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