The report’s source from Macrumors claims that the 7-inch iPad will be “identical in every way” to the current iPad with the exception being the display size, and this will include a Retina display. That would give the smaller iPad a pixel density roughly identical to that of the iPhone 4S.

It remains unclear how Apple would be able to meet a $200-$250 price point for the smaller iPad given the apparent specs, although the device will reportedly come with only 8 GB of storage. Still Apple’s current iPod touch starts at $199 and this smaller iPad will undoubtedly carry significantly higher component costs.

My thoughts on this is Apple is evolving with competition as any good business should. Anyone who buys a Kindle Fire most likely will not own an iPad. So why not try to get this market and crush the competition with the weight iPad has in the brand name alone if I told you that you could own a 7 inch iPad with the features of the bigger one or own a Kindle Fire what would you say? Me personally as much as this pains me to say, I would take the smaller iPad. As far as the cost associated with making the smaller iPad at what most would say could be a significant loss, I am sure they will make it up on the app end as Amazon has and who knows Apple has always been known for allegedly using cheap labor to make this things could they find some even cheaper? Allegedly of course.

So it’s possible there’s some variance here with the larger Web video world, but it seems reasonable to assume that this is at least directionally correct. At the very least, it gives credence to Microsoft’s claim that Xbox users are spending more time watching videos on the machines than playing games, and that its deals with conventional TV programmers may be bearing fruit.

And it shows you how much ground Google will need to make up as it gets ready to relaunch its Google TV. The same has to be said for Apple, if and when it ever gets serious about transforming Apple TV into something other than a “hobby.”

So do you own an Xbox 360? Are you watching more videos on the machine or playing more video games. I will be honest lately my 360 has been more of a Netflix and HBO GO player. Although those videos don’t count in this study it is interesting that I haven’t been using it as a gaming console lately.

Security researcher David Emery was the one who found this flaw and posted all of his findings to the Cryptome mailing list. Although the bug has seen not been fixed, Emery goes into detail on how sever this issue actually is:
“This is worse than it seems, since the log in question can also be read by booting the machine into firewire disk mode and reading it by opening the drive as a disk or by booting the new-with-LION recovery partition and using the available super user shell to mount the main file system partition and read the file. This would allow someone to break into encrypted partitions on machines they did not have any idea of any login passwords for.”

If you use Time Machine backups to external drives. If this drive was stolen it will contain the log file with the passwords.
Now this update was put into effect back in February 1st of this year so this problem has been around three months now and with this being out in the open no mac is safe.

While it will not cost businesses anything to run offers, Facebook could still make money on them. If they perform well in the news feed and drive business to physical stores, those stores may spend more on Facebook ads that increase their Page fan counts — and the subscriber bases for the coupons.
So this is just another great idea Facebook has put into play to grow businesses and have more businesses interact in Facebook and bring businesses to spend more money with them.