Chinese pirates hawking a new crop of Apple Inc iPad knock-offs are hoping the real product’s global launch will provide much-needed publicity for their slow-selling wares.

Some Apple stores in Canada and Australia sold out of the 3G version of the iPad, and staff were telling customers they did not know when new stock would arrive. This is a fairly significant piece of advice, people want the freedom of the un-tethered iPad, and Wi-Fi didn’t cut it.

As Apple kicks off international release of the iPad (which includes Canada, finally), rivals are working to develop their own products to claim a slice of a growing consumer market.

Kobo is a global eReading service, where you can choose from a wide selection of eBooks including bestsellers and popular titles, newspapers and magazines. Stay connected to what you’re reading and your library; from your smartphone, eReader and computer. Kobo support Android, computers, iPhone, Blackberry, Palm Pre, and iPad.

Apple said on Monday it has sold over 300,000 iPads on Saturday, a number which didn’t match some analysts’ estimates, placed at up to 700,000 at some point. Chitika’s number though, is much more realistic, with around 600,000 in the first six days of sales.ipad, sales, revenue, Apple, 600,000

Experts in the Mobile Industry discuss how Android is good for the industry. It is Open Source, encourages innovation and competition, allows many hardware formats to co-exist, and it is built on Linux. Well worth a watch…

Apple has introduced its latest fourth generation iPhone OS. The iPhone 4.0 OS was much awaited and Apple introduced more than 100 features including one high on everyone’s wish list, multithreading (running more than one application at the same time).

teve Jobs announced the iPhone OS 2.0 features scheduled for launching the summer of 2010 (iPhone/iPod touch) and fall 2010 (iPad) launch. Among the new features is multitasking and 100+ new features. The update also adds the mobile advertising platform (“iAd”).

AndroidLib.com reports that around 9,331 new mobile apps were added to the Android Market in March 2010. This is the biggest number of apps added to the Android App store for a given month, since it launched. In December 2009 the number of new apps added were around 3,800. Then in January 2010, these number increased to 5,500.

Investigating the life-cycle of the Printed Book and the Tablet/eReader. They looked at the ecological impact at every stage of its existence. This analysis can determine the greenest way to read.