Apple iPad, Applications and Accessories

We’re not quite at the height of Apple frenzy, but looking at the bell curve, we’re only a standard deviation or two from its zenith (we imagine the fever pitch will be in tandem with Saturday’s iPad launch, if history and human nature tells us anything). Of course, that doesn’t stop the rumor mill from amping up production, and so on with the show! First on the docket, remember last month’s discovery of multitasking comments in the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta? Well, Apple Insider’s apparently got it on word from its network of sources that OS 4.0 will in fact include multitasking, with app switching purportedly done by pressing the double-tapping the home button and selecting the appropriate active app icon.

Google continues to stake its territory online. The search-and-advertising giant announced Tuesday that it will bundle Adobe’s Flash player with downloads of the Chrome browser, putting Google in sharper opposition to Apple — and giving Adobe a powerful ally. Google’s decision to throw its weight behind Flash is an attempt to protect its turf — the internet — and strengthen its Android and Chrome operating systems for mobile phones, tablets and notebooks. By contrast, Apple’s iPhone and upcoming iPad do not support Flash. “Integrating Flash into Chrome is more of a signaling and partnership thing than anything else,” says Michael Coté, analyst at RedMonk, a research firm that focuses on strategy and developer-related issues.

Have you heard? The iPad is launching this Saturday, April 3rd.

It looks like Apple has decided to refund all rush shipping charges for iPad pre-orders after we noted that Apple was charging $12 for the same delivery day as free shipping . It’s not exactly clear why rush shipping was offered in the first place, since all pre-orders were due to be delivered on launch day. Of course, it’s not clear why people were willing to pay an extra $12 when it clearly stated the delivery day was the same either way, but hey, pobody’s nerfect, right guys

Dear friends We are looking for programmers able to create a offline Ipad application with the follwoing features. 1) Survey document 2) Voice recognition to fill in the survey document…. Android Application …

Here’s a video of a sweet little iPad application that was sent over by Ken Matsui of mkftr. It’s for kids, based on those old magnet drawing toys. There’s not much to it, but what there is looks simple and easy-to-use.

TUAW has a preview of an iPad application called Game Table . It costs 99 cents, and it lets you play play classic board games, such as Chess, Poker or Checkers, on the iPad .

+ The ICDL for iPad application features ICDL’s PopoutText technology, designed to make it possible for users to read story text clearly in the context of highly illustrated beautiful children’s picture books – regardless of screen size …

iPad App Prices Announced – iPad Application or Apps Price Updated – Exaggerated iPad App prices shocked the iPad users today, the prices of some apps can be.

Apple said it expects the iPad to be a “second gold rush” of app development as consumers rush to add content to their new devices, and it looks like Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers agrees: the venture capital firm just announced that it’s expanding the iFund to $200 million to invest in iPad app development. If you’ll recall, the iFund was originally announced alongside the iPhone OS 2.0 SDK, and provided $100 million in total investments to 14 iPhone app developers like Shazam, ngmoco, and Shopkick — companies responsible for 18 apps that have hit the App Store Top 10. Keep in mind that this money was promised before the iPhone App Store was even launched — so given how that bet paid off, it’s not surprising that KPCB’s decided to double down on the iPad, which looks like it’ll have even higher app prices