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Israel today lifted its ban on the iPad . After two weeks of banning the popular tablet computers, the Ministry of Communications is allowing them in and returning the confiscated tablets. Moses Kahlon, the Minister of Communications, announced the lift in a press release . The original decision to ban the iPad was made without the minister’s knowledge, inspiring a governmental squabblefest in Israel. Sponsor iPads were initially banned out of fear that the the tablet’s wireless would interact improperly with communications frequencies because they did not adhere to Israeli Wi-Fi standards. Technical tests carried out by both the ministry and an international lab proved that this was not so. The Ministry is allowing the importation of only one iPad per person.There is no information explaining this restriction in the press release. If there is no risk, it does not immediately make sense. Discuss
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Despite the now-infamous absence of Adobe’s Flash, video aggregator MeFeedia says that video on the iPad is a flourishing and growing trend according to the data the company has collected over the past three weeks. The company offers a few stats and postulates that, among other reasons, the “lack of distractions mean people watch more video, for longer.” Sponsor MeFeedia added HTML5 video support earlier this month – one of several alternatives available for video on the iPad – and says that its internal numbers show the iPad to clearly be a media consumption device, more so than other users. The company offers the following observations on its blog, noting that the “iPad was only launched a few weeks ago & this sample is for MeFeedia and MeFeedia Network only.” iPad is now the 5th most popular mobile device* *In terms of unique users, trailing only iPhone, iPod Touch, SymbianOS, and Android (in that order) iPad users consume 3X as many videos as web users (up from the 2.5X number that we first reported a few weeks ago) iPad users spend 4X as long watching videos as web users (up from 3X) iPad users consume 5X as many videos as iPhone users (up from 3X) We think that the lack of multitasking as a reason for people to watch more video, longer, is likely a fair point. And, as we’ve previously argued , the iPad makes a great media consumption (rather than creation) device. Discuss
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Stats: iPad Users Consume 3X Videos As Other Users
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Just 13 days after it launched to the public, the iPad is the subject of the latest Silicon Valley developers’ unconference event. At 5 PM this evening iPadDevCamp kicked off at the PayPal/eBay offices in San Jose. The photo above of developers waiting in line to enter was posted to Twitter by Portland, Oregon based iPhone (and now iPad) push notification service Urban Airship . Build some cool apps in there, folks! Sponsor
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Buyers outside the United States who planned on buying iPads are going to have to grit their teeth a while longer yet, as the release date has changed. Based on the strong U.S. demand for Apple’s new iPads, the company has decided it would delay the product’s international release for a month. Sponsor According to the official Apple statement on the matter, the sale of 500,000 of the tablets stateside in its first week of availability has put the screws to the supply. The company has “made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, until the end of May” Apple “will announce international pricing and begin taking online pre-orders on Monday, May 10.” Discuss
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Sugar CRM is launching a new user interface as part of Sugar 6. It comes with a focus on what is becoming a prerequisite: an emphasis on speed, search and deeper integration with third party applications and mobile devices. The speed issue is one that SaaS providers always seek to mitigate as they want the service to seem as responsive as if it were worked on the desktop. Sponsor To do this, Sugar CRM is providing a revamped set up that when completed is supposed to be optimized for speed and designed for the experience that comes with using a social network. It includes a new, global search, another effort to optimize the experience for the end user. Search is becoming increasingly critical as more data is available for integration with third party apps. Sugar CRM will strengthen its search with an open-source engine such as Lucene . SugarCRM is paying close attention to the user experience, knowing it is a key to acceptance among users of CRM environments. SugarCRM also includes native application support for the iPhone Android and the Blackberry. The company has also introduced a native app for the iPad. Application integration is the hallmark of the emerging social CRM application. SugarCRM fits with LinkedIn, Hoovers and Jigsaw through its Cloud Connectors service, which connects third-party data service. SugarCRM also works with Sugar Plug-Ins for Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel. But can’t this all become a bit overwhelming? All this data flowing into one CRM environment means that the customer needs to think carefully how to organize, discover and share what comes into the network. That’s why it makes sense that a search and potentially analytics component will become standards for services like SugarCRM. It’s also why SugarCRM has a certain advantage. Open-source platforms will thrive in the data deluge to come. Third-party services become critical as components that make sense of internal and external information. It’s just a matter of how those applications are applied so customers can get relevant information that they need for the opportunity at hand. Discuss
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