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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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Haartez reported today that the Israeli government has banned the iPad. "(T)he Communications Ministry has blocked the import of iPads to Israel, and the customs authority has been directed to confiscate them," wrote Bar Ben Ari and Zohar Blumenkrantz. The ban appears not so much to be the result of a coherent technical decision as a nutcluster of bureaucratic infighting. Sponsor The Communications Ministry engineers apparently refused to pass the device, since its WiFi operates to different standards than Israeli WiFi, which are similar to European standards. However, the instruction to ban the device was made without the approval of Communications Minister Moshe Kahlon. "The head of customs at Ben-Gurion International Airport said yesterday they have confiscated 10 iPads, including those their owners declared," Haaretz reported. The owners are being charged a fee for every day their iPads are held in a government warehouse and the government is refusing to say whether the iPads will be approved or how they will need to be altered to conform with Israeli law. "Paging Captain Yossarian. Paging Captain John Yossarian to the customs authority, please." Discuss
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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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Now that we've finally embarked on a future of tablet computing (didn't we do that ten years ago?) with the iPad, we immediately got to wondering: What does iPad adoption look like across the country? Luckily, online ad network Chitika has offered some numbers on what its seeing for iPads broken down over time and state by state. Chitika took a look at where and when it was seeing hits from iPads and built a real-time page to show you what's going on with the release of the latest and greatest in Internet gadgetry. Sponsor According to Chitika, there are just around 300,000 iPads now in the wild, a number that jives pretty well with Apple's own estimate . Of those, 22% were first seen by Chitika today, with just under 100,000 hitting the open Internet on Saturday, the iPad's release date. Looking at the map of iPad adoption, the company quickly declares that "it looks like California is running away with the title of 'iPadest State in America,' with more than double the iPads of any other single state" but we content that the District of Columbia has the highest concentration of iPads by far, with one iPad for every 2,019 people. Following the District of Columbia are Hawaii, with one for every 2,785, and Nevada, with one for every 2,901. Rounding out the very bottom of the list are Iowa, with one for every 29,489, and Montana, with one for every 27,857 people. Looking purely at the number of iPads, however, California leads with nearly 20%, New York follows with 8%, Texas with just under 8% and Florida with 6%. Again, on percentages, the three states where you are least likely to see an iPad in the wild? Wyoming, North Dakota and Montana, all with less than 2% of all iPads combined. To keep track of how the iPad dispersion plays out, check out Chitika's real-time numbers . The company's methodology is detailed in its blog . Discuss
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