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While it’s Friday and apparently that means little news regarding the iPad. Add Axiotron to the list of people that don’t think the iPad is going to hurt their business. While the ModBook claims to be fine, Amazon is struggling, Hachette (publishing company) dumped Amazon making it the 3rd major publishing company to screw over Amazon since the iPad announcement. More evidence of the iPad going to Vodafone compliments of its CEO and other X2 announced the Windows/Linux iTablet – haven’t we seen that before and what’s with the italics?

Apple has told developers that location-based ads are off-limits, meanwhile the game of Apple-Google Risk continues with Apple hiring two major mobile ad forces. In other Apple hiring news, the L.A. Times reported that Apple was recruiting engineers at a job fair. Steve Jobs had another meeting in New York this morning with the print media industry, apparently wearing a funny hat? Lionel at Hardmac provided some thoughts on the Apple and Adobe feud. Meanwhile AT&T & Sling are engaging in a new war.

And in our ironic moment in history story of the day: Cisco Systems, you know the company that used to own the trademark for the iPhone – yeah, they have a new iPhone app coming. Anyone want to guess what it does? VoIP, yeah the same thing their iPhone used to do.

Dennis Sellers thinks Apple might be able to use the iPad name… in Europe. If they do, the Mac Observer thinks it might show up on O2. While AT&T claims that their network can handle iPad – the U.S. government thinks different. Our favorite clone maker (who can’t deliver products on time) announced they have no plans to clone an iPad. But if they can’t beat, Sony thinks they can and Amazon bought a multitouch company. Gawker reported that Steve Jobs has traveled to New York to meet with various media outlets.

In non-iPad news, Verizon posted a couple of sexist commercials. Apple changed the preview feature regarding iTunes or something like that. MacNN reports on the mess that is the 27″ iMac, refunds, seriously? While the education sector may be Apple’s key market, but working at the White House is the newest. Trillian (AOL’s AIM client) is coming to the Mac, you should still use Adium. MacNN rummaged through the iPhone SDK 3.2 and thinks that iPhone may record in 720p. O2 announced that they had sold two million iPhones – we have no joke, except to laugh at the rest of the smartphone industry as Apple continues to outgrow them. Rob Janoff posted a must-read regarding the creation of the Apple logo, by the way – he created it. AT&T announced that they were going to allow SlingPlayer on 3G for iPhone. And in the rant of the day section: Credit Suisse downgraded Verizon because it’s unclear that they will be getting the iPhone. Seriously, there is zero evidence of the iPhone going to Verizon and people wonder why our economy is awful?

We were watching House last night, not really sure what you were doing that made you miss all of the Apple news of the last 24 hours. There is a lot of recent speculation about the iPad’s non-existent camera. CultofMac points to a picture that seems to show something like a camera from the iPad Steve used at the Keynote. Then there was a random company out of Kansas that allegedly acquired an iPad frame. TechCrunch claims that Apple is working on a much large based tablet. Patently Apple has some thoughts regarding Apple’s claim to the iPad trademark. Apple announced when the iPad would be released in the U.K., well sort of…

Apple released a second firmware update to help cure the yellowing of screens with the 27″ iMac, but refuted claims regarding the halting of production. iPhone OS 3.1.3 was released and Engadget already found some interesting stuff. Apple received a patent for the next-generation Apple TV technology. The New York Times discussed not only the new A4 chip, but the disappearance of much of the P.A. Semi staff. Apple has been questioned by the U.S. Senate regarding human rights in China. Hardmac claims not only is Nehalam expected to be outdated soon, but also that the Mac Pro may get a hexacore Xeon processor soon. TUAW questioned the lack of VoIP via Skype.

Spent all of Sunday night watching the Grammys? Well, if you didn’t then you missed the first non-Apple employee with an iPad, none other then Stephen Colbert. Digitimes had something to say about how the iPad affects China’s e-book market. Our favorite story of the day: a Chinese clone maker is considering suing Apple for taking its version of an oversized iPod touch and turning it into an iPad. TUAW pondered where the iMag store is. Someone figured out a way to put Windows 7 on an iPad. Dennis Sellers asked where the Verizon iPad went while Dan Frommer at Business Week insisted it was still on track – funny how FoxNews was the one that claimed the Verizon iPad.

Apple released iTunes 9.0.3. Arnold Kim at MacRumors did some more reflecting on the iPad news, including the fact that the only source (China Times) that correctly predicted the screen size also predicts a 22″ touchscreen iMac. Hardmac claims that Apple has suspended production of all 27″ iMacs until it sorts out the yellow screen issue, sounds like Toyota doesn’t it? TheLoop is reporting that 9 out of every 10 computers over $1000 were Macs – here’s to the Mac tax. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the iPhone lost market share in the 4th quarter, yet still managed to gain ground? A Virginia wireless company is suing Apple claiming it stole a bunch of patented things, for $10 million we imagine this will be settled quickly. 9to5Mac thinks that Apple is now getting a Twitter account, in addition to the newly founded YouTube page. Logitech has found a way to turn your iPhone into a trackpad. Intel claims that SSDs will double in size by the end of 2010. Our favorite media player, VLC, was updated to version 1.0.5 and Wacom announced its new (and) completely wireless Intuos4 pen tablet.

Perhaps tomorrow we won’t have to have a section dedicated to the iPad. Sigh.

Sorry for the late news update, Flash was giving us problems – more on that later. Spent the weekend anxiously waiting to see who would win Hyperspaces – nope, didn’t think so. Well, just in case you haven’t checked any of the Apple sites in the past two days, we shall get you caught up with all things Infinite Loop. DigiTimes suggests that other tablet manufacturers are having to adjust their strategies due to the unreasonably low price of the iPad. Wired explains why you can’t buy an iPad yet. Engadget has found a lot of interesting things in the iPhone 3.2 SDK. 9to5Mac took a guess on how much Steve makes on each iPad. Macsimum claims that more than 1,000 new developers emerged after the iPad. The first of the Amazon-Apple wars has started. Apple removed any signs of Flash from the iPad after many pointed out the obvious problems, but someone still complained to the FTC.

In other news, 9to5Mac found the incredibly populated Apple YouTube channel. The Apple 2.0 looked back at the history of Steve Jobs as Jesus. BoyGenuisReports has figured out that Apple can pretty much sell you anything as long as you have somewhere between $60 and $7000. Seth Weintraub points to the iPad as showing the existence of a Apple-Google relationship. Steve then called b.s. on Google’s motto (amongst a lot of other interesting revelations) at the Apple Town Hall meeting from Thursday. Finally, Engadget announced the launch of their Apple-free news site, we are trying to get their sister site Autoblog to do one that doesn’t cover Toyota (crosses fingers.)

You remember that dream I had yesterday, 59 days without the iPad? It ended rather quick thanks to some protestors, all six of them according to Ars Technica. iLounge pointed out that we are all going to be able to tell if you spent $130 more on your iPad. Engadget thinks the iPad might be able to make phone calls. Kirk McElhearn wants a Dvorak keyboard for the iPad, why Kirk? Netflix isn’t coming to the iPad, in the near term. Steve doesn’t like it when Walt Mossberg sits on the furniture according to John Gruber (who we still don’t believe.) And Brian Chen is unhappy that AT&T is still loved by Apple. After all that complaining, CNN decided to crack the obvious joke. In actual news, MacNN thinks that Apple could ship 4 million iPads in 2010, but don’t worry the Kindle, Nook and other e-book readers will outsell the iPad – according to the guy that makes the screens. Apple removed a VoIP restriction in the latest iPhone SDK (3.2) McGraw-Hill claims they didn’t get uninvited to the iPad event, Terry has some explaining to do. Adobe is still mad at Apple, like really mad. Fujitsu is debating whether to take on Apple in court. A developer claims that Apple stole his UI design for iBooks, perhaps he planned on giving iBooks to the world, not just the U.S. artechnica has learned that Apple held a town hall to discuss the iPad and proper furniture etiquette.

In things not related to the tablet… The iPod touch might get a camera (and LED screen) after all according to Patently Apple. AT&T activated 3.1 million iPhones in the fall, laughed at Verizon and made a lot of money this past quarter. Oh yeah, they are also fixing the dropped calls problem. Apple has filed for some crazy cryptographic system using chaotic dynamics patent, seriously what? Barclay’s has now rated AAPL at $285, but that seems a tad bit low to MacDailyNews. Sony is going to model Apple’s stores in Japan, I’m not sure anyone really cares though.

We aren’t going to lie – there was little news today. Verizon lost a lot of money last quarter, but the Droid did help a little. Apple won thirteen new patents, but is getting investigated by the government for that whole Nokia thing. MacDailyNews pointed out that Michael Dell is an idiot. In case you didn’t hear, Apple released the iPad. While Jack Bauer may be the first to get an iPad, our friends at Tom Bihn have already announced their first case (and bag) for the device. SingularityDsgn highlighted what AAPL did during the iPad announcement. Canada’s two largest carriers are playing a little fishy regarding the iPad. Gizmodo points out that “unlocked” and “working on T-Mobile” are too very different phrases. Boy Genius ponders about whether the iPad OS is in fact finished. In what has to be our favorite article of the day, MacNN wonders where Terry McGraw and Verizon were during the iPad announcement, we do too. That’s about it. Hopefully tomorrow, the world can return to normal and we can spend 58 more days not hearing about the iPad, until those people start camping out.