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Apple, as it is with most of it’s products, has not been very forthcoming with details about it’s expected touchpad device.  Speculation has abounded about the software it will use, the size of it’s screen and it’s other capabilities.  However, to Apple the iPad is all about capturing a new market it has not ventured into very much, that market being books and other written media traditionally delivered to us in hard copy printed form.  To put it more succinctly, the iPad will be the device which launches the iTunes Bookstore.

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GM recently announced a new partnership with Segway under which they built a new concept people mover the “PUMA”.  With any luck it will hopefully never see production.  One look at this bizarre vehicle will have you wondering what they are thinking.  An informal survey on CNN.com showed that over 70% of the people polled said they wouldn’t be caught dead driving around in it.  The PUMA is designed to be piloted around cities and is not intended for highway use.  Although it is capable of traveling 35mph.

Considering GM is on the verge of bankruptcy one has to wonder why GM would even contemplate such a vehicle.  Concept vehicles have their place and in many cases they stir up some positive PR for the company.  However, in the case of the PUMA it just goes to show how out of touch GM has become with their consumer.  They are designing concept vehicles which have no future, hopefully zero possibility of being built, and that give GM an even worse name.

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For a while now a Facebook group has been circulating which contends “Because of Facebook’s huge popularity Mark Zuckerberg is getting a lot of offers from people wanting to buy Facebook. People Who WILL turn it into a paysite.” The original group can be found here.  Over 3 Million people have joined the group which is astonishing in itself.  However, the threat of Facebook becoming a pay site has absolutely no basis in fact.  It’s like saying Walmart is going to get bought out because it is so hugely popular and the new owners are going to sell off each store to families so it will be a family run business again.  Yeah it could happen but it is extremely unlikely.

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Imagine if you bought a car and then a few months down the road the manufacturer announced that they could turn out new features in your car that would allow it to get better gas mileage.  Turns out they say, that the hardware to improve gas mileage has been in your car all along.  The catch, well you have to pay them to use the hardware you already paid them for.  In a nutshell this is what Apple is planning on doing to it’s iTouch 2G customers.  It turns out the customers who paid for their iTouches will be forced to cough up another $10 dollars if they want to use Bluetooth.  The Bluetooth chip is already built into the phone, Apple just didn’t tell anyone when they were buying it.  Now in order to turn that feature on you will need to pay $10 dollars for an “upgrade”.

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Someone forgot to tell Dell that the world’s economy is in a recession.  Dell recently announced a new line of high end luxury laptops known as “Adamo”.  Click here to see the lineup.  The new laptops start at $1,999 for the “Admire” model which feature a 13.4 inch screen, 1.2GHz Core 2 Duo Processor, 2GB of Ram, Windows Vista, and a 128GB Solid state drive.  If you are willing to drop another $700 dollars you can move up to the “Desire” model priced at $2,699.    That extra money will buy you a slightly faster processor, 1.4GHz to be exact.  You’ll also get 4GB of Ram, and Mobile Broadband. Apparently they are counting on your desire for mobile broadband in order to get you to part with all that money.

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