Videos: Apple's largest iPad rollout continues (updated)

• Videos: Apple ends fiscal year with 7 store openings - update

  It may actually reach its goal of opening 30 new stores in the last quarter of fiscal 2011

  This will be a big weekend for Apple (AAPL) retail, with seven grand openings scheduled on four continents over two days. The new stores, according to ifoAppleStore:

  IFC Mall (Hong Kong)
  Nanjing East (Shanghai)
  Westfield Hornsby (Australia)
  Centro Sicilia (Italy)
  New Haven (Conn.)
  Metrotown (Canada)
  Le Chesnay (France)

  Videos of huge crowds and over-excited staffers have already started to pop up on YouTube, including the first one MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 23, 2011 7:25 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Apple Store, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Nanjing, Shanghai, Westfield Hornsby

• Apple preps for global iPad 2 stockouts

  Unable to fill U.S. orders, it will make the device unavailable in 25 more countries on Friday

  Last week, for reasons I'd rather not examine too closely, I spent the better part of an hour waiting outside an Apple retail outlet in center city Philadelphia only to be told, 50 minutes before the store was scheduled to open, that its promised overnight shipment of iPad 2s had not arrived.

  It was an MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 22, 2011 1:41 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, iPad, iPad 2, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Steve Jobs, Stock outs, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K.

• Scalping Nazis on an iPhone

  Apple's app reviewers haven't lost their appetite for tasteless entertainment

  Apalon has done it again.

  The latest offering from the Belarus-based developer of such off-color iPhone apps as Drunk Sniper (toilet bowl humor) and Doodle Farter (flatulence) is 100 Nazi Scalps, a game designed to cash in on the popularity of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

  The program is a crude but bloody horizontal scroller in which the goal is to kill and, if MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 30, 2010 12:08 PM ET
  Posted in: 100 Nazi Scalps, Apalon, App Store, Apple, Doodle Farter, Drunk Sniper, Games, iPhone, Italy, Mobile, What Country

• Italy gets its third Apple Store

  In Torino, the city that hosted the 2006 Olympic Winter Games

  Doors opened Saturday morning in this northern Italian city of 1 million. settleB.IT's Fabio Zambelli put together a speeded-up video of the gathering crowd. You can see it here and below the fold.

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 19, 2010 2:11 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Apple Store, Fabio Zambelli, Italy, settleB.IT, Torino

• Google 'Newspass' to save the newspaper industry?

  According to a report from Italy, Google plans to release a micro-payment system that will link to paid newspaper content directly from search results.

  Italian newspaper La Repubblica is reporting that Google has been contacting Italian newspapers (wonder how they found out?!) about a new service called 'Newspass' which will be released later this year.  Newspass will provide news organizations with micro-payments for direct links to their properties from Google News.  The move MORE

  Seth Weintraub - Jun 19, 2010 10:23 AM ET
  Posted in: Google, Google News, Italy, micro-payments, Newspaper