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China bans iPads causes removal stocks from stores

This morning we reported on Apple filing a new suit to get the Samsung Galaxy Nexus banned from the United States. Well it appears that Apple weren’t the only ones focused on getting another company’s device banned, as it has now been reported that the iPad has now been officially banned in China for violating the Proview Technology Trademark.

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Chinese RedPad to compete hard with Apple’s iPad

China Communist Party members can now carry a tablet PC to verify identification cards, read the blogs of cadres and manage state-owned firms without fretting that using a bourgeois Apple Inc iPad will ruin their street cred.

Enter RedPad Number One, an Android-based tablet computer filled with software applications (apps) catered to a party official’s every need for control. Delivered

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Apple to launch iPad 3 and iPad Mini together!

According to DigiTimes, Apple will unveil two versions of its next-generation tablet next month at the Macworld|iWorld conference. Sources at Apple’s supply chain partners tell the blog that the new models will target the mid- and high-end markets, while the existing iPad 2 will be positioned to compete with the Amazon Kindle Fire.

The new models will sport 9.7-inch screens

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Playbook a exponentially slow runner compare to iPad sales

Research In Motion (RIM), depending on its new PlayBook to bolster sales as demand for its BlackBerry phones withers, may have shipped just one of the tablet computers last quarter for every 19 iPads from Apple.

The company, which reports earnings tomorrow, probably sold about 4,90,000 PlayBooks during the first full quarter of sales, according to a Bloomberg survey of

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