Apple Inc. may have sold as many as
500,000 iPad 2 computers after retail outlets ran out of the
tablet-style device on its debut weekend, said Piper Jaffray
Cos. analyst Gene Munster.

Stores run by Apple, Target Corp. and Best Buy Co.
contacted by Munster’s team had sold out of the device, he said
in a research note yesterday. Online orders via Apple’s read more »

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Craig Federighi is an Apple "boomerang."

Federighi, who's taking over for departing Mac veteran Bertrand Serlet, left Apple in February of 1999 for business software company Ariba, and wound up coming back 10 years later to help Apple build the
Mac OS, which ships on the company's desktop and notebook computers.

Now, according to Apple's announcement earlier this week, he's stepping
into a role many are watching closely: he'll be running the Mac OS group
at a time of uncertainty as to what, exactly, a computer is--what form
factor it's in; what software it's using.

During an interview in England this week, Wozniak said, "I'd consider it, yeah," when asked whether he would play a more active role if asked, Reuters reports.

Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne founded Apple Computer in 1976.
Wozniak left his full-time role with the company in 1987, but remains an
employee and shareholder of Apple.

Since leaving Apple, Wozniak has been involved in a wide range of
entrepreneurial and philanthropic endeavors. He currently serves as
Chief Scientist for storage company Fusion-io.

It wasn’t so long ago that the corporate BlackBerry was a badge of a serious
business. But then along came the iPhone and Google’s advanced Android
operating system – such seriousness started to look like a staid rejection
of the latest technology.

Now, as every major technology company strives to launch a tablet computer to
catch some of the iPad’s magic, BlackBerry is launching one too. The 7”
PlayBook will go on sale in America next week and across Europe later on
this quarter – already, however, major commentators are asking if BlackBerry
is going the unfortunate way of Nokia.