Senator to Apple, Google: why are DUI checkpoint apps still available?
Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) took his allotted five minutes during Thursday’s US Senate hearing on mobile privacy to lambaste Apple and Google for not removing DUI checkpoint apps from their respective stores. Udall was one of four US Senators that sent letters to Apple, Google, and RIM in late March of this year asking those companies to remove such apps in the interest of public safety. Apps such …
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Man gets 13 years for fatal DUI crash
Associated Press – May 20, 2011 5:14 PM ET DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) – A Florida Panhandle man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for a DUI crash that left two people dead.
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6 Apple iPad Apps You Don’t Need (But Might Want!)
Worried your life has too much purpose? Try downloading these utterly useless (yet irresistible) iPad apps.

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Apple Calls iPad Launch a Runaway Success
Apple is calling the launch of its iPad tablet computer a runaway success today, saying it sold more than 500,000 of the devices in its first week on the US market. Apple said demand for the iPad is far higher than it predicted, and will likely continue to exceed supply, so it has decided to delay the international launch by a month, until the end of May.

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E-Reader Faceoff: Amazon Kindle vs. Apple iBooks
It’s time once again for another edition of our long-running Faceoff Series , wherein we pit two similar or competing web services, gadgets, apps and more against each other in a head-to-head battle for supremacy amongst Mashable readers. This week it’s a war for best electronic book reading experience between two of the heaviest heavyweights: Amazon and Apple. Last week we saw the iPad solidly …

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10 best Apple iPad apps
While Apple’s iPad is an impossibly beautiful tablet computer, the power to unlock its yet-unrealized potential is held by a group of third-party app developers.

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Airport Check-in: Apple iPad can stay stashed at security
The TSA has clarified in its blog that the Apple iPad won’t have to be removed from carry-on baggage by travelers at security checkpoints.

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Fast Forward: With iPad, Apple aims for sweet spot between laptops, smartphones
The price of Apple’s new iPad, starting at $499, fits into more people’s budgets than any of its computers. But that doesn’t mean it will fit all of their needs.

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FOX News reviews Apple iPad: Last week I didn’t pick up my laptop once – and I didn’t miss it
Apple’s iPad has replaced my laptop for almost all of my workflow…

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More Fuzzy E-Book Numbers, This Time From Apple
As if Amazon’s fuzzy and incomplete numbers around the Kindle and e-book sales weren’t frustrating enough, now Apple is getting into the game. At the unveiling of the new iPhone operating system on Thursday, Steven P. Jobs said that 600,000 electronic books had been downloaded from Apple’s new iBookstore on the iPad.

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Amazon Fights Apple in the Wild
Amazon may be targeting Target for its Kindle retail debut.

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Five iPad lessons Apple could teach Amazon to save the Kindle
As we absorb the iPad into the pantheon of technology toys, are there lessons Apple could teach Amazon?

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Apple Looks Past the iPhone With OS 4.0
The iPad launched just days ago, but already Apple is gearing up to introduce a new version of the iPhone OS as well as a rumored (not to mention expected) new iPhone model.

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Can Amazon, Sony, or Google Catch Apple? [Video]
I found one person who has no plans to buy iPad 1.0: James McQuivey, a VP at Forrester Research. He’s less than impressed with Apple’s latest offering and if he buys an iPad in the future it will be in 2011 or beyond (when the second generation comes out). While the “Kindle Killer” chant is growing louder among iPad reviewers, he still has lots of love for Amazon. Expounding on his blog , he …

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Frum: My dream product from Apple
I belong to that class of person once mocked by The Onion: “If it’s shiny and made by Apple, I’ll buy it.”

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Apple sells 300,000 iPads on first day
Apple Inc said it had sold more than 300,000 iPads on the tablet computer’s first day in stores, surpassing some forecasts, but leaving questions about whether the product can be its next big hit.

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Over 300,000 iPads sold on first day: Apple
Apple said on Monday it sold more than 300,000 iPads in the United States on its first day of availability, a figure in line with predictions of some analysts but fewer than others expected.

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Apple iPad Features Reviewer Surprises, Kindle App
Apple’s iPad tablet PC contained some surprises for early reviewers at Consumer Reports, including a full device charge right out of the box and a need for Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

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Apple fans eagerly touch and swipe first iPads
Now that the iPad is in the hands of early adopters, the hard work for Apple Inc. begins.

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Across U.S., Apple Fans Buy the First iPads
Many waiting for the iPad had a vague sense that they were involved in another big Apple moment, although they could not quite say how they would use the new gadget.

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Apple Launches iBookstore
Apple has just launched a full store of iBooks — digital offerings tailor-made for the iPad that will be available starting tomorrow. This move sets the iPad up as a Kindle-killer. “Amazon’s done a great job of pioneering this functionality with the Kindle,” said Steve Jobs of the digital book market earlier this year. “We’re going to stand on their shoulders and go a little further.” iBooks is …

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