Macworld.com - The iPad is now available for purchase and iPad sales figures are available for loose speculation! Microsoft phone fans find themselves in familiar territory and what’s that Braying sound?

PC World - The Apple iPad has captured the imagination--and a fair share of the news headlines for the past few months. Palm has been in the headlines as well, but for entirely different reasons. Perhaps, Palm could reverse its fortunes and regain its former glory if it went back to its PDA roots and developed a tablet PC to compete with the iPad?

PC World - This week on the podcast, Wired's Dylan Tweney and Brian X. Chen visit the PCWorld podcast studio for some verbal jousting over Google's Android operating system and Apple's iPad.

Macworld.com - The iPhone app for Bing, Microsoft's search engine, has been pulled from all international App Stores, according to Neowin.net. However, it remains available for U.S. customers.

Macworld.com - On Friday, Bharti Airtel announced in a concisely worded press release that it had struck a deal with Apple to bring the latest version of Apple's smartphone to India “in the coming months.”

PC World - Conflicting reports have surfaced for the last week about how well Apple's still-unreleased iPad is selling, how well it will sell, and whether it'll make more of a dent in the market than the iPhone's debut.

Macworld.com - Most iPad developers may not yet have touched the actual device, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been busy working away on software for Apple’s newest invention. But, according to an e-mail obtained by Macworld, if you want your iPad application to have a chance of being in the App Store for the iPad’s arrival, you’d better have it ready for Apple’s review by March 27.

Macworld.com - So you've pre-ordered your iPad, or there'll be one with your name on it at the local Apple Store. You've combed apple.com/ipad more times than you can count, trying to hunt down more hidden details that Steve Jobs neglected to show off during his January keynote. But have you bought a case?

Macworld.com - For the aspiring musician without the paycheck to take lessons, computers have really opened up the traditional teaching field. Sure, programs like Garage Band’s Learn to Play probably aren’t going to give you the skills to play at Carnegie Hall, but they’re a fun and entertaining way to start. So it comes as no surprise that companies are developing musical teaching tools for portable devices like the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Etude, released Wednesday by Wonder Warp Software, is a prime example.

NewsFactor - With Apple's iPad scheduled to go on sale on April 3, a new report indicates there may be strong pre-order demand. This could mean the iPad is on the verge of being a breakthrough product for tablet computers.

PC World - A recently disclosed patent request suggests Apple may be working on a mobile social networking application that would presumably let iPhone users form ad-hoc groups based on their locations.

Macworld.com - Electric Pocket, the maker of apps such as MailTones and PhoneFace, has brought its note-taking application BugMe to the iPhone. Already available for the Android and BlackBerry platforms, the app lets iPhone and iPod touch users create digital sticky notes with their fingers.

PC World - As more details emerge regarding the upcoming Windows Phone 7 series, it seems to be defined more by the features and functions it lacks than the ones it delivers. Microsoft did throw out the playbook and start over with Windows Phone 7--but the new playbook may have been stolen from Apple's locker room.

PC World - Apple could sell more iPads in the first three months of availability than it sold original iPhones in the same period, according to sources quoted by the Wall Street Journal. "Hundreds of thousands" of units have already been pre-ordered, says the report, with strong demand expected at launch.

Reuters - India's Bharti Airtel on Friday said it had agreed with Apple Inc to sell its iPhone 3GS in India in the coming months. (Reporting by Devidutta Tripathy; Editing by Aradhana Aravindan)

Macworld.com - With the release of Logic Pro 9.1 back in January, Apple's pro audio software made the historic jump to becoming a 64-bit application on Snow Leopard. Thursday's 9.1.1 update smooths over a few things.

Macworld.com - Remember that court case from 2007 in which Viacom sued Google for $1 billion in damages for hosting infringing content on YouTube? As of Thursday morning, several legal documents from that billion dollar case have been unsealed. Now, there’re a few new twists to the case.

PC World - A knock-off MacBook Air running Windows, a tablet computer shaped like a big iPhone and another tablet meant to rival Apple's iPad were all among the devices shown off by a small Chinese gadget maker on Thursday.

Macworld.com - Canon has pulled the new EOS 5D Mark II 2.0.3 firmware update, just days after its initial release. The much anticipated update added a host of new video capabilities to the Mark II, including manual control over audio recording levels—something that was previously only possible with a third-party device.