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In total the iPad has sold over Two Million units in 60 days.

Or 35,000 iPads on average, every single day, since launch.

It took the iPhone 74 days to sell the same number.

As of today their are 8,027 iPad specific apps in the App Store.

Interesting…

In a nutshell, Smokescreen is a technology that takes FLV files, converts them into Javascript, strips out the images and audio, and then reconstructs them into SVG files – which will play in pretty much any browser on pretty much any device.. including iPads, iPhones and the iPod Touch.

Almost makes you wonder what all the fuss was about.

Smokescreen is made by the guys over at RevShock, a new mobile ad startup based in Austin and San Francisco. You can keep track of their latest developments at RevShockAds. Smokescreen was primarily developed by Chris Smoak.

Check a demo of Smokescreen out in your desktop browser.

From their website :

Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’re probably familiar with the fact that Adobe Flash doesn’t run on any mobile Apple device.  Moreover, it looks like Apple is never going to let Flash onto the iPhone/iPod/iPad empire.

These two facts paint a bleak picture for mobile advertising.  Many people still want to use their existing Adobe tools for developing ads, and retooling to support a single platform seems silly.  As an ad network, we believe that dynamic, interactive ads are much more fun than boring static ads and thus, we were faced with two options:  live in a dark, desolate world of boring mobile ads or do something about it.

We’re putting Smokescreen out there as a preview right now. We look forward to adding support for more of Flash, fix bugs, and improve performance over time. This is just a start.

NOTE: You should disable the auto-lock on your iPhone. To do this, go to Settings>General>Auto-lock and set it to ‘Never’.

You will need:

• a jailbroken iPhone 2G or 3G running firmware 3.1.2 ( NOT 3.1.3 )
• the device should be jailbroken with PwnageTool, RedSn0w or Blackra1n. Won’t work with Spirit…
• OpenSSH installed with default password ( alpine )
• Macfuse installed on your Mac
• and of course… iPhodroid

How to:

• Download iPhodroid and extract
• Install Macfuse
• Run iPhodroid and hit run – the process should take around 5 minutes

Enjoy…

Today we took the display of the forthcoming iPhone 4G under the microscope in a laboratory test.

Calculate the resolution of the display was not too difficult, certainly for the resolution exactly double compared with the present, thus resolution of 960 x 640 pixels.

Google Translated superiphone.cz.

I have been wondering why the guys in Vietnam, or Gizmodo did not do this with their iPhone 4Gs. It seems that the guys at superiphone.cz have a little more creativity and foresight about them.

From their examination the new iPhone 4G screen seems to be confirmed at 640 x 960, with a pixel density of 320 ppi, and is not OLED.

Screen, of course we can not turn on, so why not lit, as the trio of displays at the top. Image is taken at the same zoom microscope and if you are a larger version compare side by side, you will notice a thick double points in the same area. But see for yourself that this is a regular RGB matrix, which shows rather a different display than the OLED display, with the family.

It is not no secret that the current capacity in the OLED display is fully booked, and Apple would hardly find a manufacturer able to deliver in a short time, millions of pieces of displays produced by this technology.

Google Translated superiphone.cz.

The IPS screen technology Apple uses (from the iMac to the iPad) provides wide viewing angles, a more accurate color gamut, and fewer potential problems in production. OLED screens are plagued with manufacturing issues, production is constrained, and nobody is manufacturing the screens in large numbers.

Now, where did they get their iPhone 4G?

The science data coming from Voyager 2 had been unintelligible since April, but last week engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California figured out what was causing the problem – one bit in the memory of the computer that formats the data to transmit it to Earth had flipped from a zero to a one – and reset the system.

After three days of monitoring the engineering data to ensure the fix was successful, the command to restart science data transmission was sent to the spacecraft on Saturday.

It takes nearly 13 hours for a radio signal traveling at the speed of light to reach the spacecraft from Earth, and another 13 hours to receive an answer, so scientists began receiving the science data on Sunday.

And I thought that communicating with borked ultrasonic industrial pipeline inspection equipment several miles below the ocean surface was challenging!

Or administering a server in the US via SSH from Thailand, was frustrating!

But seriously. Respect.

It must have been nail-biting for the 26 hours that engineers had to wait and see if their fix had worked.

Don Reisinger mulls over the implications for HP after the main architect of the future of webOS defects to Google :

When Google confirmed on Thursday that Matias Duarte left Palm for greener pastures at the search giant, some wondered what HP’s reaction would be.

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HP has been tight-lipped on its feelings about Duarte’s departure. But that silence is deafening. HP is likely very concerned by Duarte’s move. And it should be.

I didn’t expect things to go well when HP absorbed Palm. I recalled at the time their history with Compaq and the iPaq. Real innovation with the iPaq effectively stopped when HP acquired Compaq, in my opinion.

I expect that any engineer who believed they were working on something revolutionary when at Palm, finds the prospect of getting stuck inside a company that exists to shift boxes unpalatable.

When any company acquires another, its goal is to not only get the product or service it wants, but to get the talent that went along with it. Now that Duarte is gone, the main talent has left HP. And with him went all the neat new ideas he might have planned for the mobile operating system. That can’t make HP feel too well.

HP are probably experiencing some of the frustration Apple felt after their purchase of PA Semi, which may have led them to buy Intrinsity later. Unfortunately for HP, Duarte’s knowledge and roadmap for webOS is not something they can acquire elsewhere.

Worst of all, speculation abounds that HP will be seeing a mass exodus at Palm as more of the team that worked on webOS get enticing offers from competitors trying to pluck the unique ideas they might have for their own operations.

It is very likely that other key engineers from Palm will also receive lucrative offers from elsewhere in the tech industry. HP, I expect, will get left holding some very expensive IP which it will achieve very little with.

HP is in a dangerous position. The company spent $1.2 billion just to get its hands on webOS. And as a public company, its investors want to see it turn a positive return on that investment.

Something that bean counters who run box-shifting corporations need to learn is that you cannot just buy innovation with the purchase of a company. You need to court the engineers and designers that come hand in hand with the ownership of the IP that their company embodies.

I did originally wonder why HP kept Jon Rubinstein around at Palm. Perhaps the idea was that he would be able to retain key employees. Something he obviously failed to do.

To dish out ads at scale in the TV app market Samsung may have to purchase or start an ad network that will stand between advertisers and the devices that carry ads. Samsung execs are coy about company plans, but such a move would position Samsung as a threat not just to Apple but also to cable companies.

I think Samsung may be one of Apple’s first iAd partners, and Apple are probably talking with them behind the scenes about both advertising and the future of AppleTV.

If they aren’t talking. They should be.

This is comedy gold :

Rathakrishnan previously admitted that the Joojoo is not intended to be an “iPad killer,” while promising to fix some of the product’s early issues such as an unsatisfactory user-interface. The CEO also acknowledged that many customers were apprehensive to buy a $500 tablet for a startup company currently involved in an ongoing lawsuit.

In other words :

• We’re not in competition with the iPad.
• Our User Interface, the single most important component of our device, is crap.
• We’re an industry startup currently embroiled in a lawsuit which threatens our very existence.
• But we’ve got Flash!

Every two or three years, you have to copy your archive onto fresh discs. And after that, because these new discs will last a bit longer, you will have to re-copy them after five or six years.

I have never used CDs or DVDs to backup anything. They are purely for recording, and then sending disposable copies of media.

If you didn’t know that. It is time you did.

iPhone OS 4.0 and the new iPhone 4G. Duh!

The next version of the Mac OS X, perhaps.

Nope.

In an inspired bit of entrail reading this morning, Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu says Apple (AAPL) may have a libretto of big WWDC announcements. “Other announcements we are picking up that could potentially be made are iTunes.com, a web-based version of its iTunes client, and new Mac refreshes with faster processors and graphics, namely the Mac Pro and MacBook Air, which were last refreshed in March and June 2009, respectively,” he wrote in a note to clients this morning.

Wu is simply doing what most Apple watchers might do. He’s looking at refresh periods on hardware. Sure the Air is due for an update. So are a lot of things going by that metric.

But Apple’s only option right now is to pair the small-outline Core 2 Duo with the new NVIDIA GeForce 320M controller with integrated graphics. That GPU is a significant upgrade to the 9400M used in current MacBook Air models, and would offer increased performance with a decreased drain on the battery. But it is hardly an exciting step forward for the CPU.

All the Core i5 and i7 offerings from Intel require the use of Intel’s IGPs, which are less powerful than the current NVIDIA GPU being used in the Air. And now that Intel has taken the wraps off its ULV mobile processors we can see that they too rely on the same awful IGPs. Cramming an extra NVIDIA GPU into the Air, alongside Intel’s updated silicon is not really an option with its small form factor.

So no Air update. Even if it is “updated”, it’s not really an update. It’s a “bump”.

I am actually hearing whispers that Apple is at least experimenting with some custom silicon for the next MacBook Air. But I don’t see it being available as soon as WWDC, if at all.

Going out on a limb : I don’t think we’ll see any major Macintosh updates at all at WWDC this year – apart from perhaps Mac Pros.

I also tend to agree with Peter Kafka (now) that it probably is a bit early for a cloud based version of iTunes.

“Sources tell me that in the past few weeks, Apple has started signaling to the labels that it’s interested in a Web-based version of iTunes, its dominant music retail platform,” Kafka wrote on April 30. “But those conversations are preliminary at best. So if you’re expecting to hear about an ‘iTunes.com’ offering in the near future–like during Apple’s June 7 developer conference–you’re likely to be disappointed.”

I do think a ‘cloud’ iTunes is coming, especially when you consider the rumours about Apple’s new Apple TV plans from the last 24 hours. I had previously theorised that it may come around WWDC time, but in the light of the last 24 hours I do have to admit I think that is less likely now.