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.

Yahoo has been working to focus on its core businesses — creating and licensing content, selling online ads and providing messaging services — while turning to partners to run some of its other offerings. It’s a great way to do business and is the new emerging trend in closer corporate service trading. Companies are staying focused on their core competencies and partnering where needed.

The “smart TV” service allows people to search both live channels as well as content from websites such as YouTube.

First quarter 2010 information from The NPD Group’s Mobile Phone Track reveals a shift in the smartphone market, as Android OS edged out Apple’s OS for the number-two position behind RIM.

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.

When you view the images on the mobile search results pages, this is now made larger through a special image viewing page. You can also easily browse through the images by swiping from picture to picture, just like how you normally do it when browsing for photos on your iPhone Camera library or Android photo gallery.

The hot new Android smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S will be launching on the US carrier T-Mobile. Forbes is suggesting that the Samsung Galaxy S will actually end up on all four major US carriers in 2010. These

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).