As expected, Friday’s launch of the Apple iPad drew crowds of eager punters to the various Apple Stores and Apple resellers around the nation offering the iPad for sale on its official ‘everywhere else’ release date.
By far the most popular across the country were the 3G enabled models, with many retailers selling out of this version by Monday morning. The non-3G WiFi only version was soon to follow. Read more
May 28 has been confirmed as the new launch date for the iPad in Australia. The iBooks store will also be ready for launch on this date. Read more
The Queensland Department of Education could be the first Australian state to take advantage of the Federal Government’s $2 billion Digital Education Revolution (DER) fund by purchasing the new Apple iPad for its students.
Kevin Rudd’s Labor government has indicated it wants to equip every public school student with a computer by the end of 2011. It is leaving hardware decisions in the hands of state education departments. Read more
Wired.com’s own statistics show that 26% of its mobile traffic is coming from the Apple iPad.
Nearly three weeks since its US launch the iPad has confirmed its place as a major mobile computing device. In this short space of time the iPad has shown Read more
The iPad is released in the US tomorrow, but here in Australia we will have to wait a few more weeks…
Initially it was announced in January that the device would be available worldwide in late March. Only the WiFi model will be available in the US on first release. The WiFi + 3G models are scheduled for release later this month. Read more
The new Apple iPad will be launching in Australia in late April. Read more