Putting all rumors about iPad delay aside, Apple has finally announced that iPad is coming to US on April 3rd with pre-orders starting on March 12th. Only WiFi models will be available to US customers now, iPad 3G models would be available in late April. For countries other than US including (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK), all iPad models will go on sale in late April.

It seems that Apple upcoming tablet iPad will allow you to make emergency calls too along with its video conferencing and basic photo editing feature. According to Gumballtech, using the latest iPhone 3.2 SDK for iPad, if you enter iPad passcode incorrectly 5 times consecutively, you will see an emergency call screen just like the one you see on your iPhone.

Apple has sued the Taiwan based phone giant HTC accusing its rival of violating patents related to the popular iPhone. Apple said that the rival smartphone maker has infringed on 20 patents covering aspects of the iPhone interface, user interaction and hardware. In a statement Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that his company will not all its competitors to steal patents of its inventions.

With the release of Opera 10.5, the opera team claims to have World’s Fastest Web Browser On Earth. Opera 10.5 introduces new JavaScript engine known as Carakan which makes it 7 times faster than the old JavaScript engine Futhark which is being used in Opera 10.10. Moreover data compression at server end and de-compression at client end makes it more faster than other web-browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Opera managed to beat Chrome in both Peacekeeper and Sunspider. So, it appears that Opera is now the fastest browser available.

There are rumors that iPad launch could be delayed, the source of these rumors is an analyst who claims that manufacturing bottlenecks may reduce the number of iPads available at launch or could delay it entirely, the info has been shared by AllThingsD. For those who don’t know, Apple launched iPad in Jan and Steve Jobs gave a hazy late March shipment date.

Rumors are in the air that next generation iPhone 4G will come with video conferencing and iChat capabilities, 9to5mac has found strong evidence in iPhone 3.2 SDK for iPad pertaining to video conferencing and iChat options in upcoming iDevices.

For those who have updated their iPhone to firmware 3.1.3 (Jailbroken) would have noticed that the Jailbroken / Cracked apps are not working anymore. Even if you reinstall these apps, they won’t work until you patch your MobileInstallation file via AppSync. Good news is that you can patch your MobileInstallation file just like you did it for firmware 3.1.2. After patching the MobileInstallation file, you can install .ipa files manually without using the iTunes.

Apple has finally started to hunt those who are behind various iPhone Jailbreak and Unlock tools by banning their Apple IDs from iTunes App Store. Sherif Hashim comes on the top of list as he was the one who found the exploit in the latest iPhone OS 3.1.3 which can unlock 05.12.01 baseband for iPhone 3GS and 3G devices. Hashim forwarded the exploit to iPhone Dev-Team and they have confirmed that it is working but have not given any ETA on when or if they are going to release a tool which is going to unlock iPhone 3.1.3 05.12.01 Baseband for iPhone 3G and 3GS. Later when Hashim tried to access App Store from his iPhone he got the following message Your iPhone ID has been disabled for security reasons.

Apple revealed its much awaited tablet iPad at media event on January 27th with many more attractive features but at the same time it lacked two of the most expected features i-e Multitasking and Camera. iPad is based on OS 3.2 which is yet to be released for iPhone and iPod Touch in near future. It will not take much longer before hackers will Jailbreak iPad OS 3.2 and will bring Multitasking to it. Steve Jobs on January 27th said that the new iPad will be at retail within 90 days and will have a camera and SIM slot for 3G network.

In June 2009, Chromium team released the Chromium version of Google Chrome for Mac which was full of bugs and crashes. Later in October 2009, dev version of Google Chrome was released for Mac OS X which was still far from being stable at that time and lacked many of the most demanding features of Google Chrome like support for extensions and Greasemonkey scripts. Finally Google has released a beta version of Google Chrome for Mac OS X which supports over 2,200 extensions and bookmark synchronization and this version of Google Chrome is much more stable than past releases.