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Responding to strong demand in the United States for its iPad, Apple said Wednesday that it would delay the worldwide release of the tablet computer for a month. “Faced with this surprisingly strong US demand, we have made the ...

Watch out, iPad: Google may be getting into the tablet game. In a move reminiscent of its recent step into mobile phone design, Google is reportedly working on its own custom Android-powered tablet.

Apple is acknowledging complaints that its new iPad computer has trouble connecting to the Internet.

Users who rushed to snap up Apple's iPad are complaining within days of the slate computer's highly anticipated release that they're having trouble connecting it to the Internet.

Wall Street analysts on Monday joined the masses in terming Apple Inc's iPad launch as "rock-solid," with some pegging sales of the tablet computer at about 5 million units in the first 12 months.

Cupertino, Calif.-based gadget maker's tablet computer selling fast. Apple sold between 600,000 and 700,000 iPads during the tablet computer's first day of sales Saturday, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster wrote in a note to investors Saturday. That's up from the range of between 200,000 to 300,000 units Munster had predicted earlier. Munster cited "longer than expected lines" and good iPad availability ...

Applications for Apple's iPad can be viewed in the iTunes App Store ahead of the highly anticipated release of the tablet-style computer Saturday.

In 10 years of reviewing tech products for The New York Times, I’ve never seen a product as polarizing as Apple’s iPad, which arrives in stores on Saturday.

It looks like some U.S. customers who preorder Apple Inc's new iPad tablet computer now may have to wait a bit longer to get the device, as the company appears to be having a hard time keeping up with demand.

Apple on Friday began accepting preorders for its multimedia iPad -- both the Wi-Fi and 3G models -- with reservations limited to two per customer and free hardware delivery on the April 3 launch date. The iPad starts at $499 for the 16GB ...