Update: Here’s the pre-order link. The lack of iPads in the UK kept would-be owners there from being as frustrated as I was trying to follow live election coverage on a non-Flash tablet but they’ll be able to experience the wonders and the drawbacks for themselves by the end of…

Today’s standout standout but still small digital number from earnings reports: CBS (NYSE: CBS) Publishing aka Simon & Schuster reports a roughly 233 percent increase in digital publishing revenue for Q1, to $12 million from $3.6 million. The surge comes on higher digital sales of e-books, audio downloads and stand-alone…

RealNetworks’ GameHouse is launching a new social gaming platform designed to transform single-player games into connected experiences—and to make it easier for developers to publish games across gaming portals and devices. It’s supposed to be able to “massively” scale for hundreds of millions of players. The first example of GameHouse…

Dozens of questions remain about Apple’s plans to get into the mobile advertising business, from how much a campaign will cost to which applications will they run on. Based on information Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is telling advertising agencies, we were able to get answers for at least one: how much…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs is crowing this morning about breaking the one million mark with iPad in 28 days—less than half the time it took for the iPhone to achieve the same feat. At the same time, the company announces some usage stats as of April 30: 1.5…

Google’s plans for the set-top box may now have an air date: May 19. That’s when Google’s I/O developer conference begins—and the WSJ says Google (NSDQ: GOOG) plans to use the event to announce “Google TV,” a new Android-based platform that will let developers bring web apps to the TV.…

Whether you’re a customer or a critic, Steve Jobs wants you to know once and for all why he does not allow Flash, made by his very old and dear friend Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), on iPhones, iPods and iPad. In a 1,671-word message posted in Apple.com Hot News section. Jobs…

If anyone was hoping that Palm’s financial problems would lead to a less cluttered mobile operating system market—you are out of luck. HP (NYSE: HPQ) was resoundingly clear this afternoon during a conference call discussing its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm. It intends on investing heavily in the webOS platform,…

Apple’s not hesitating to put a dent in its gigantic cash horde. A day after the New York Times reported that the Cupertino, Calif. company bought Intrinsity, a small chip company known for making a faster processor that uses less energy, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has purchased Siri, an iPhone application…

Newly independent Rhapsody is giving its iPhone app some bragging rights with an update that lets subscribers listen to tracks even when they’re not online. Users will now be able to download their Rhapsody playlists to their phones; by June, Rhapsody says it will add functionality so users can download…

One of the world’s leading newspaper auditors has added mobile phones to the list of mediums that it tracks, providing validation to the wireless industry, while also potentially giving publications a shot of new readers as traditional print audiences decline. To do so, the interactive unit of the Audit Bureau…

Verizon Wireless has launched its first wave of NFL Mobile applications, including live streaming of Sunday and Thursday night games, for subscribers today as the official sponsor of the NFL. If you are a Verizon subscriber and interested at all in the NFL, you should download the application before the…

In the “timing is everything” department, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) filed its 10-Q the day after Steve Jobs threw another batch of lightning bolts at its highly popular Flash platform and included an admission that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) poses risks. The language (first noted by Bloomberg) may have already been in…

Tomorrow is a big day for the wireless industry, as one of the most influential innovators in the mobile world announces the latest edition of its mobile phone operating system. With every major iteration of the iPhone’s operating system, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has disrupted the mobile ecosystem (first with the…

The BBC may have postponed its planned mobile phone apps for regulatory scrutiny in its native UK - but, in the U.S., where the BBC operates commercially, its new iPad app is already a big hit. Released in time for the tablet’s U.S. launch last weekend, the personalisable BBC News…

Let me get this one piece of advice out of the way: if you’re thinking of buying an Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad primarily to read e-books, don’t—unless you’d rather spend extra bucks on looking cool than on books. At $499, the cheapest WiFi-only iPad is vastly overpriced as an e-reader…

Round 1 goes to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The iPad, as expected, has caused a big stir, and given people like Walt Mossberg reason to gush with enthusiasm about the death of laptops. Throughout, as various members of the press have mused about the death of Amazon’s Kindle, I feel compelled…

Forget the speculation about how the iPad performed out of the gate. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) just released its own numbers: 300,000-plus sold as of midnight Saturday, including pre-order deliveries and Apple retail sales. That represents a minimum of $150 million in first-day sales, using the lowest-end model, and considerably more…

So day one of iPad launch almost over—though West Coast’s still in full swing—no estimates on how many iPads have sold, but it is instructive to see how the charts for iPad apps are doing. The big hope that it would be the savior of big media isn’t bearing out…