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Glide OS, the cloud-based operating system that runs in your browser, is phasing out Adobe Flash in favor of HTML5. This transition begins with a new version of the company’s site that’s been designed specifically for
Apple iPad owners. Beginning Thursday, visitors to Glide’s site will see the Flash version if they’re on a normal computer, [...]

In this June 14, 2010 photo, Cupidtino founder Mel Sampat is seen with his Apple iPad in San Francisco. Apple Inc.’s ads used to challenge consumers to “think different.” Now a website wants to help fans of the iPhone and Mac computer maker date different, too. Called Cupidtino, an homage to Apple [...]

This hasn’t been AT&T’s month. First, security researchers found a loophole in the company’s Website that could be used to reveal email addresses for tens of thousands of Apple iPad customers. Now, some users are reporting that when they log in to their AT&T accounts to pre-order the iPhone 4 they are apparently given access [...]

(AP) — The FBI said Thursday that it is investigating a data breach at AT&T that exposed the e-mail addresses of more than 114,000 owners of the Apple iPad, including government officials.

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They’re heeeeeere. Several would-be Apple iPad killers showed up this week at trade shows in Taiwan and hoighty-toighty confabs in Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, AT&T debuted a new wireless data pricing plan that left some people confused and others angry. Facebook’s privacy fires continued to burn, despite the company’s attempts to dump cold water on them. [...]

One of the prevailing themes at the Computex conference this week is the coming onslaught of Android-based tablets. The iPad is leading the tablet charge–selling more than two million units in less than two months since its initial launch, but some of the Android tablets could be formidable challengers to Apple’s de facto tablet dominance.
Let’s [...]

In this undated photo provided by Wired, an Apple iPad is displayed. After nearly a year of laboring on a tablet computer edition of the magazine, Wired released its application in Apple’s digital newsstand Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Other titles from Conde Nast, including Vanity Fair and GQ, had already come out for the iPad, [...]

Social publishing site Scribd is making a big bet on HTML5 and scrapping its three-year-old Adobe Flash investment.
The site, which features content from such publishers as Simon & Schuster and the Chicago Tribune, will have more than 200,000 pages of  HTML5-based content live Thursday at 1 p.m. PT, the company said. Plans call for converting [...]

As if to prove the Apple iPad’s crossover appeal to PC users, spammers have launched a malware campaign to reel them in using the promise of extras for the new device.
According to BitDefender, the spam campaign invites its would-be victims to download an updated version of iTunes with the promise of a preliminary update that [...]

Toshiba, the world’s fifth-largest personal computer maker says it will launch slate devices later in 2010, including models that run either the Microsoft Windows 7 or Google Android operating systems.
Jeff Barney, general manager of digital products for Toshiba America, tells Reuters that his company is exploring several tablet form factors, including a dual-screen tablet that [...]