Author: matt buchanan

According to a leaked Best Buy iPad playbook, each store getting the iPad for D-day is supposed to receive exactly 15—five each of the 16, 32 and 64GB versions. Again, they won’t be on the website, and there might be another round of iPads on April 11, if Apple doesn’t hold stock back for its own needs. In other words, Best Buy isn’t much of a backup plan if you haven’t already pre-ordered, and if you’re gonna camp out, you’re probably better off at an Apple Store. [TUAW] More »

With the iPad comes new iTunes. MacRumors hears that 9.1 will have a minor overhaul, organized around books, and smarter, more customizable Genius mixes. More »

Android’s problem: There’s a lot of Androids out there! 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 and 2.1, just to name the major current versions. A problem, ’cause spiffy apps that’ll run on 2.0 won’t run on 1.5, and now everybody’s confused. Google’s solution? More »

In case you forgot, Apple’s sent out a helpful reminder: Saturday is iPad day. 9AM, to be precise. And yes, iPads will be at Best Buy too. iBooks also official launches on April 3. So, who pre-ordered? More »

So this is curious: Just a few days after screens showing iBooks Store ebook prices leaked, revealing a ton of $9.99 bestsellers, a fresh leak shows a bunch are back up to $12.99. Say what? More »

So, one thing that struck us in those leaked iPad App Store screens: The apps are markedly more expensive. More »

Some of the hard specs on Nvidia’s completely next-gen Fermi graphics cards have been out there, but this is what you can actually buy around April 12: The $500 GeForce GTX 480 and $350 GeForce GTX 470. More »

Maybe Steve Jobs had coffee with Fujitsu’s CEO too: They’ve given the “iPad” trademark to Apple. After the iPad event, making the name official, a confused Fujitsu claimed the name “iPad” was still very much theirs. Not anymore. More »

The Nexus One‘s display continues to be less than meets the eye. Ars’ breakdown reveals that the PenTile subpixel arrangement means that, depending on how you count the pixels, it could have an effective resolution that’s smaller than 800×480. More »

It’s pretty clear by now that the next big thing is going to be location. Here’s a map of what all those checkins looked like in Austin during Geek Spring Break (SXSW), a taste of what’s coming. [YouTube via Scoblizer] More »

Foursquare’s Windows Phone 7 app blows away their implementations on any other platform with a redefined aesthetic and new features, like a heat map. Which makes us pretty hopeful about what devs can do on WP7: [Artificial Ignorance via TechCrunch] More »

You’ve probably seen some reviews of Sony Ericsson‘s first Android phone, the Xperia X10, which tries to do something a little different with its custom interface. We’ve got one, but the software is riddled with strange issues, and Sony Ericsson confirmed to us that when the phone’s actually released in “Q2,” consumers will be running a muchly updated OS. So! We’re gonna wait to we review the phone you’re actually going to pay money for. More »

A ton of the bestselling books in the Kindle Store are free, just like free and cheap apps are the most downloaded in the App Store. So we’re not too surprised Apple’s baking in a catalog of free books from Project Gutenberg right into the iBooks store. More »

The first batch of Netflix Watch Instantly discs for the Wii have been shipped, so if you already ordered one, you can track its status—some people are slated to get ’em as early as tomorrow. [ Netflix, Thanks tipsters!] More »

Joss Whedon‘s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog is a work of pure supervillian musical genius, produced for the internet during the height of the Hollywood writers’ strike, starring Neil Patrick Harris and Firefly’s Nathan Fillion. The iPhone comic prequel is awesome. More »

Well, just compare its market cap to the other top five publicly traded US companies—it’s sitting pretty at $207.99 Billion, right below Walmart, as of yesterday’s market close. BIG. [Data via Mac Daily News via Digital Daily] More »

Why I take the subway: This is what NYC traffic congestion looks like, charted by the GPS units built into cabs. The real surprise is that average travel speeds remain a crushingly slow 7MPH, even when everybody’s at work. [NYT] More »