• MLB releases iPhone, iPad app updates (Macworld)

    Macworld – Major League Baseball Advanced Media released updates to its mobile apps late Wednesday, adding some major features to its iPad and iPhone editions and also bringing regular-season coverage to Android for the first time.

     
  • Asus Eee Pad Transformer Android tablet hits Best Buy for $399.99 (Digital Trends)

    Digital Trends – As promised, Taiwan’s Asustek has brought its Eee Pad Transformer to U.S. consumers by April by launching the device at electronics retailer Best Buy for a starting price of $399.99. The availability of the Eee Pad Transformer not only increases the number of Android tablet devices on the market running Android 3.0 “Honeycomb,” but also hits a very important price point: it undercuts the Apple iPad 2.

     
  • PairShare offers music streaming between iOS devices (Macworld)

    Macworld – The folks who made up the tiny audience for Microsoft’s much-mocked Zune had one clear advantage over their iPod-loving rivals: When they wanted to share tunes with each other, they could do so wirelessly, rather than resort to the unhygienic practice of earbud-sharing. A new iOS app aims to fill that gap.

     
  • Hottest thing on eBay? Maybe the iPad 2 (Digital Trends)

    Digital Trends – In a somewhat uncharacteristic move, online auction giant eBay has released data about two weeks of iPad 2 auctions on its U.S. Web site—and, given that iPad 2′s are still hard to find in stores, it’s not surprising the tablet has been doing brisk business. According to Cnet, roughly 12,000 iPads were sold on its U.S. site in the two weeks leading up to the device’s launch in 25 additional countries last week—and while 65 percent of those sales went to buyers in the U.S., some 35 percent went to international buyers. The biggest overseas importers of iPad 2′s offered on eBay were Canada and Russia, with Hong Kong, Japan, and the United Kingdom hot on their heels.

     
  • Mozy releases iPhone app for browsing, sharing backups (Macworld)

    Macworld – Not content to let competitors like Carbonite have all the iOS fun, online backup service Mozy has released its own iPhone app.

     
  • iPad Trash Talk from HP, Dell Sounds Like Sour Grapes (PC World)

    PC World – I love a good flame war between rival tech companies, but two recent attacks on Apple’s iPad by HP and Dell executives failed to stir my emotions, except one: sympathy.

     
  • Asus Sticking with Windows 7 Tablets Against iPad, Android Army (PC World)

    PC World – Asus will continue to build Window 7 tablets, calling Microsoft’s OS a worthy competitor to the Apple iPad and the army of Android tablets on the market. An Asus official told
    TechRadar
    that the company gets a lot of inquiries from the consumer and business market for Windows 7 tablets, so it will continue making them as long as that demand remains.

     
  • Twitter Removes Unpopular "Quick Bar" From iPhone App (Mashable)

    Mashable – Twitter has gotten rid of the Quick Bar, a relatively new feature that floats at the top of the Twitter timeline in its official apps for the iPhone and iPad.

     
  • Share, discover music between iPhones with MyStream (Macworld)

    Macworld – At some point, we’ve all told a friend something along the lines of “cool song, can I listen?” This is when you either split a pair of headphones and hope that your friend has a sense of personal hygiene, try your luck with Google, hand over a USB drive to make a clunky exchange, or embark on a journey through iTunes’ search box on your own device.

     
  • Apple to Eat Extra Costs for Smooth Shipping of Japanese iPad Parts (PC Magazine)

    PC Magazine – Apple is prepared to eat some extra costs from Japanese upstream component makers in order to avoid further shipping delays for the iPad 2.