Reports: iPad 2 event set for Mar. 2

Press invitations are expected to arrive later this week

Apple Inc.

The websites of two major newspaper reported Tuesday that Apple (AAPL) is set to unveil the second generation iPad one week from tomorrow.

"If you are thinking of buying an iPad, you may want to hold off a bit," wrote Miguel Helft on the New York Times' Bits blog.

"People with knowledge of the matter say that Apple will host an event MORE

Adobe's Flash isn't ready for Android Honeycomb tablets

Initial Android Honeycomb Tablets will ship without Adobe's Flash (and that might be good!).

Xoom ad, click to enlarge

First spotted yesterday in the lower right hand corner of Verizon's (VZ) XOOM ad, Adobe's Flash will not be shipping on the first Android tablets to hit the market this week.

Adobe (ADBE) this morning acknowledged that it wouldn't be shipping Flash in some of the initial Honeycomb tablets.

Adobe will offer Flash Player 10.2 MORE

Can Google MyTracks get you out of a speeding ticket?

A My Tracks user was given a ticket for driving over the speed limit.  His Android phone disagreed. So did the judge.

Here's an interesting story of how an Android smartphone was able to help a man get out of a speeding ticket.  Sahas Katta was driving through a 25 mph school zone when he was pulled over for speeding.  The officer said he was going 40.  He took the ticket MORE

Crystal-clear cell phone calls are coming. Really.

Peter Santos, the CEO of Audience Inc., says high-definition cellular service is about to take off.

The top of a current cell phone tower. Image via Wikipedia

Peter Santos comes across as a pretty mild-mannered executive, until he starts trying to come up with a metaphor for how crummy today's cellular phones sound relative to how good he knows they could sound.  "What we have in voice today is a 13-inch MORE

Why Alibaba's CEO had to go

Alibaba says the fraud perpetrated on its users is minor and immaterial, fiscally, to its investors. But top leaders still fell on their swords to save the company's reputation where it really counts.

By Bill Powell, contributor

Alibaba CEO David Wei, who resigned yesterday

For several years now, the Internet firm Alibaba-Taobao has been one of the
 most prominent Chinese companies on the planet—thanks both to its
 success and to its brash, MORE

A German newspaper gives Google's One Pass a shot

Google's model of making a few bucks per article may make the most sense in the long run.

Focus Online, the third largest German publisher, is Beta-testing Google's (GOOG) publishing system, according to the Guardian.  The One Pass system is a web-based tool for publishers who want to charge micro-payments for content rather than use a subscription service.  Each piece of content is paid for through Google's Checkout system and for the trouble, MORE

Report of iPad 2 delay retracted

According to the Wall Street Journal, an unveiling is scheduled for March 2

[UPDATE: Reuters, citing an unnamed source "familiar with the matter," has retracted its report of an iPad 2 delay. The Loop's Jim Dalrymple, citing no sources, has declared both delay reports "not true." And All Things Digital's Kara Swisher has announced that Apple will hold an iPad 2 event on March 2. No source for that one either. MORE

The cost of Apple's 'greed tax'

Growing developer unrest draws a clarification -- of sorts -- from Steve Jobs

REJECTED: Readability's iOS apps

When it looked like Apple's (AAPL) new subscription model was aimed at magazine publishers in New York City, nobody west of the Hudson River seemed to mind.

That changed almost overnight when someone in Cupertino rejected an app for the iPhone and iPad submitted by Readability, a Web service developed in conjunction with Instapaper that MORE

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HP's big reboot: A new board for a new era

HP's five new directors will have little to do with this quarter's likely solid earnings, but they will shape the company for decades to come.

By Ram Charan, contributor

HP CEO Leo Apotheker and Chairman Ray Lane

In order to reboot for 2011, Hewlett Packard announced in January that it was bringing on five new members to its board of directors, replacing four others who wouldn't stand for re-election. The move came MORE