The rumors has it! iPad 3 could be seen on the basket in early March, according to TechRadar.com

Various sources reports that Apple is in “crunch mode” – lining up apps to demonstrate on the iPad 3 at launch and in its new advertisements.

iPad 3 is set to be release in 2012 with a new features expected to get an outing at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona.

On the other hand, some rumors claim that new device could be iPad 2S and not iPad 3. Could it be possible?

Read here more iPad3 features and specifications

RIM announced at the Blackberry devCon in Amsterdam the release of Blackberry 2.0 OS. The update for Playbooks from previous OS cost £169.

The Blackberry 2.0 for Playbook has no BBM chat, witc is a black spot in our oppinion. RIM says that BBM is not ready yet and it`s expected to be released later this year. The same fate has the new Casacades-based user interface, according to Tech Radar.com

Also, the release of new Blackberry 2.0 is expected to be announced at Mobile World Congress 2012 too.

This is a picture found on Engadget.com, showing a Nokia N9 device running on Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Wow! It like saying a cow is eating a hamburger )

Nokia N9 running Ice Cream Sandwich?! Yes, it is possible!

In an interview for TechRadar, Steven Sinofsky, the man behind Windows project at Microsoft, said that with Windows 8 we will have the same traditional desktop on ARM, but we won`t be able to install third party apps on it.

All the third-party apps developed for ARM Windows 8 architecture will be used for the Metro interface.

We should clarify that the desktop-style apps won`t die. You’ll still get familiar apps like Explorer, Internet Explorer and the Windows Live apps (which will no longer be called Windows Live) plus Office – but everything else will be Metro.

“All Metro-style apps will run on WOA just like you would expect,” Sinofsky confirmed.

Read the full interview on TechRadar

The video bellow shows a remarkably stable operation, especially considering how tricky it was bringing CM7 to HP’s slate.
It looks like everything functions except the camera and video playback, and the Cyanogen team promises repair that soon.

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CNN finally suspended its employee, Roland Martin, after he posted on hist twitter account some lines considered to be homophobic.

 “Roland Martin’s tweets were regrettable and offensive,” CNN said in a statement Wednesday afternoon in announcing Martin’s suspension.

 “Language that demeans is inconsistent with the values and culture of our organization, and is not tolerated. We have been giving careful consideration to this matter, and Roland Martin will not be appearing on our air for the time being.”

“CNN today took a strong stand against anti-LGBT violence and language that demeans any community,” the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation said Wednesday.

According to WashingtonPost The National Black Justice Coalition — the nation’s largest black LGBT civil-rights organization — said it was “encouraged by CNN’s stance against language that incites anti-gay violence.”

What Roland Martin posted on Twitter:

“If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham’s H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him! #superbowl.”, Roland Martin said on Twitter.

“well you’re clearly out of touch and clueless with what I tweeted. Way to assume, but you’re way off base.”, Roland Martin tweeted again.

“It’s hilarious when idiots . . . see my Beckham tweet as homophobic when I rip on soccer all of the time.”

“This isn’t a mistake made on Twitter. It’s part of a pattern of anti-LGBT rhetoric that culminated in two tweets yesterday promoting violence towards gay people,” GLAAD said.

“The time has come when CNN and Time Warner have to decide whether they want to continue to use their platforms to elevate those who use such language.”

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New Jersey is one of 10 states in the nation that has been granted a
waiver on the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law by President Obama today, the White House announced.

The White House announced the first round of waivers for 10 states. The administration had said that it would grant the waivers because efforts to revise the 10-year-old law have become bogged down in Congress even though members of both political parties agree that the law has problems and is in need of major changes.

“After waiting far too long for Congress to reform No Child Left Behind, my administration is giving states the opportunity to set higher, more honest standards in exchange for more flexibility,” President Obama said in a statement released with the announcement.

“Today, we’re giving 10 states the green light to continue making reforms that are best for them. Because if we’re serious about helping our children reach their potential, the best ideas aren’t going to come from Washington alone. Our job is to harness those ideas, and to hold states and schools accountable for making them work.”

iPad 3 review. What do you need to know

The Apple iPad 2 has been out for almost a year now, so it’s nearly time to say hello to iPad 3.

The web is teeming with rumours about the new iPad 3 processor, cameras and display, so we’ve gathered together as many details as we can on its possible specifications.

Of course, some of these can be taken with a pinch of salt, but there’s definite patterns occuring and we’d say the final iPad 3 release won’t be that far removed from many of these rumours

So what’s the word on the street about the next iPad?

Apple iPad 3 release date

The iPad 3 release date looks set for March or April 2012, with an iPad 3 announcement in March to coincide with the release of iOS 5.1.

Website YourDailyMac has unearthed iOS 5.1 carrier profiles which carry the possible iPad 3 release date of 9 March 2012 in their names.

However, we’d expect the iPad 3 announcement to be in February, with the iPad 3 US release date in early March and the iPad 3 UK release date in late March.

Digitimes reported in late November 2011 that panel makers had already started shipping panels for the new iPad 3 – a million in October and two million in November.

Foxconn, Apple’s major manufacturing partner, is said to have started production of the iPad 3 in January. 2012. A source at one of Apple’s partners also told Bloomberg also stated that the company began production of the iPad 3 in January, with a view to reaching full volumes in February.

Digitimes says the new model is expected to meet the heady heights of 9.5 to 9.8 million units over the course of Q1 2012.

The Apple iPad 3 will have a quad-core processor

It’s probable that the iPad 3 will have a brand spanking new processor, Apple’s A6 – which will surely be a quad-core ARM-based processor. Quad-core designs are coming from various ARM partners and the Tegra 3 has already been launched by Nvidia, as well as the Snapdragon S4 from Qualcomm.

According to the Korea Times in November 2011, the A6 processors are to be manufactured by Samsung, despite the companies’ ongoing patent battles.

Apple iPad 3 display

A retina display was widely predicted for the iPad 2, but of course the current iPad doesn’t have a double-resolution display: for now, that’s something you’ll only get in the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. Could an iPad 3 Retina Display be on the way? It’s the very first thing on our iPad 3 wish list.

The exciting news is that it looks as though it is happening, with Apple reportedly testing suppliers’ current shipments of 2048 x 1536 resolution 9.7-inch displays. Now that iBooks 2 has been launched (as of 19 January 2012), we’ve also seen further references to 2x iPad screen images – these will, most likely, be for iPad 3.

However, it’s not always been plain sailing for the display – rumours continued over the summer and autumn of 2011 that the retina display in the iPad 3 was continuing to be a challenge.

Back in May 2011, we reported that the iPad 3 could launch with a Samsung-made AMOLED screen, following rumours that Apple was in talks on the matter with Samsung execs. There have also been more LG and Samsung rumours, too.

However, according to the Wall Street Journal in late November 2011, Sharp will manufacture panels for the device. Apparently Apple is investing in infrastructure at Sharp’s LCD plant. Further rumours said that Apple is looking to implement some nifty dual LED lightbar technology into the iPad 3, apparently in a bid to counter-balance the brightness issue that the Apple tablet may have, due to its super-high pixel density.

A part leak in early December again pointed to a Sharp-manufactured 2048×1536 retina display and dual lightbar.

iPAD 2: We wanted a retina screen, but didn’t get it - what about for iPad 3?

Will the iPad 3 actually be called iPad 2S?

An iPad case maker in China, Chinee, has started to sell a cover for a device it’s calling ‘iPad 2S’.

Case manufactures have a good history of being on the money when it comes to pre-empting Apple’s hardware plans, with last year’s iPhone 5-gate being an exception to the rule.

There is no confusion of where the iPad 2S name derives from – following the way of the iPhone as we saw Apple announce the iPhone 4S last year.

According to several rumours the iPad 2S will sport the same look as the 2, with a boost in internal gubbins but slightly more portly in depth.

There may be an iPad 3 LTE version

Persistent rumours suggest LTE support will be provided for the US. Great for the US, though it will leave the UK behind as there’s no 4G connectivity as yet. Cnet.com believes that the new iPad may feature a Qualcomm 4G LTE Gobi 4000 chip.

The iPad 3 will usher in iOS 5.1

Alongside the much anticipated iPad 3, Macotakara sources seem convinced we’ll see iOS 5.1 come out of beta in March too.

The iPad 3 will have a bigger battery

A casing supposedly for the iPad 3 was posted online in February, with its size suggesting we’re in for an increase in battery and graphics power in the new Apple tablet. Some say the new casing appears to accommodate a larger battery.

Will the iPad 3 have a smaller dock connector?

Parts previewed on some websites indicate that, although the iPad 3 will still have a 30 pin dock connector, the packaging is streamlined. Well, if this is true, we knew it would happen sooner or later.

The iPad 3 hardware could include an NFC chip

Apple’s very interested in Near Field Communications, and one particularly tasty rumour at Cult of Mac suggests that the iPhone 5 will use NFC to take over nearby Macs, enabling you to use your data and settings with a flick of the wrist.

The iPad 3 specifications will include more storage

The iPad 2 has the familiar 16/32/64GB storage options. A 128GB option for the iPad 3 isn’t impossible – although that might depend on the situation in Asia, where natural disasters caused chaos in parts of the electronics industry last year.

The iPad 3 features could include a Thunderbolt port

Two generations of USB-free iPads suggest that Apple just isn’t interested in adding one, but the new Thunderbolt port found in the 2011 MacBook Pro and MacBook Air could be another story: it’s a combined accessory/display connector with astonishingly fast performance.

There could be more than one iPad 3

TUAW says the iOS 5 code features new code files for USB devices in the iOS 5 firmware, Through this, TUAW found references to an iPad 3,1 and an iPad 3,2. Is this latter variant the LTE version?

The iPad 3 could be thicker

Via TechRadar.com

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed that California’s initiative repealing marriage equality (Proposition is in violation of the federal Constitution.

Prop 8 or Proposition 8 concerning gay marriage was passed by voters in November of 2008, to take away the protections of marriage from gay and lesbian couples in California.

According to WashingtonPost, although it’s only been three and a half years, so much has changed in the way America looks at this issue since then. Seven consecutive national polls have shown that a majority of Americans now support marriage equality. But the difference goes beyond just a change in the number of people who support marriage equality – we’ve also seen a change in why they do.

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Randy Travis

According to WashingtonPost, Randy Travis , 52, who was in a parked car, told officers from the town of Sanger he had fought with his girlfriend and was trying to get back to his ranch, 20 miles away, reports the NBC affiliate in Dallas.

Travis broke up with his wife-manager of 19 years Lib Hatcher in 2010 and was released after being booked on a misdemeanor charge of public intoxication. He issued a statement later apologizing “for what resulted following an evening of celebrating the Super Bowl.”