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Time: 6pm PT, 9pm ET, 2am BST!

Place: http://live.tipb.com/live/

(You can watch from iPhone via Ustream Viewer app (here’s how) and iPad (we recommend Duet Browser.)

If you have any questions or stuff you want us to make sure we cover tweet them to @TiPb, email them to podcast@tipb.com, or leave them in the comments below!

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Our editor-in-chief, Dieter Bohn, writing for sibling site PreCentral.net lands an exclusive first look at an HP/Palm webOS slab device, potentially code-named Stingray.

While we are quite confident that the image is legit, unfortunately we don’t have a lot of confidence in any further information. Is the device coming or is it simply a prototype that has been canned? Our tipster described it as “an EVO with webOS” and suggests it simply has yet to be announced.

If real and if HP goes ahead and releases it, it will be their first phone without a keyboard, leaving webOS itself as their key differentiators. With more an more emerging about the tablet-specific webOS 3.0 (similar to how iOS 3.2 was iPad specific), it’ll be interesting to see what ultimately launches on the phone.

[PreCentral.net]

HP/Palm finally making an iPhone-style webOS slab phone? is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.

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Atari has released a compilation of its famous arcade games for iPhone and iPad. There are over a hundred games in the collection, 18 classic arcade games like Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Command and Pong to name a few. The other games, 82 in total are made up of classics from the first Atari home console know as the Atari 2600. Some of the games have had a modern day update with Bluetooth multi-player support. Those of you old enough to remember these classics should be very excited and rightly so; this compilation of games is awesome!

The app will be a free download and the games are all based on in-app purchases. They will be split into 25 games packs. The game has gone live in the New Zealand App Store already, with game packs priced at NZ$0.99 or you can buy the complete catalogue of games for a one off fee of NZ$14.99. We imagine US prices will be a little less.

The app is a universal binary so will run on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. You can see the full list of games available in the New Zealand App Store preview link.

Let us know when it hits your country, and if you get it, what you think!

[touch Arcade]

Atari Greatest Hits brings over 100 Atari games to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.

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Google has released an update to its ebook reading application Google Books. The update mainly offers support for landscape reading mode on the iPad but does include a few extra features and bug fixes.

Some of the new features include the "Find" feature, which shows matched words throughout the book when you scroll. Also, you can automatically sign in to Google when you tap "Get eBooks".

Bug fixes cover speed improvements, 3-D page turning for the iPad on iOS 4.3 and above and a better downloading experience.

Do any of our readers use Google Books? Let us know in the comments!

[Free – ITunes Link]

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Giving away 3 one-year subscriptions to the TeleNav powered AT&T Navigator isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Giving away 30 one-year subscriptions. To celebrate the launch of AT&T Navigator 1.8i (for the AT&T iPhone – iTunes link) — the first app to takes advantage of TeleNav's hybrid navigation service! — that’s exactly what they’re doing.

And here’s all you have to do to enter:

1. Like TeleNav on Facebook and TiPb on Facebook (be sure to like both!)
2. Leave a comment below telling us where you’re going to use TeleNav to take you

That’s it! We’ll pick 30 of you at random from the comments and if you’ve liked both TeleNav and TiPb on Facebook, you’ll get one of the thirty (30!) one year subscriptions!

What are you waiting for, do it now!

[Not sure if your device is supported? Check out TeleNav's AT&T support page!]

Like TeleNav and TiPb on Facebook for a chance to win 30 free one-year AT&T Navigator subscriptions! is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.

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Good April Fool’s jokes seem hard to come by these days, but not for this news anchor who convinced his co-host to lick an iPad immediately after she exclaimed “I’m not licking an iPad!”

The host told a story about a breaking new app that lets you taste and smell things on your iPhone or iPad. The new technology was called Pietzo Electrics and although the co-host seemed disgusted by the idea, she was too intrigued to turn it down once the app was placed in front of her.

For some good laughs, check out the video after the break!

News anchor gets co-host to lick iPad as April Fool’s joke [Wednesday fun video] is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.

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According to Storage Newsletter, Apple has purchased 12 petabytes (1 petabyte is 1024 terabytes, so over 12,000 terabytes) of storage from EMC’s Isilon Systems, reported for use with iTunes to store music, movies, TV, and other media content online.

Obviously this will be hugely expensive — you don’t buy this level of storage from Best Buy, after all — but storing huge amounts of data with both staging, local, and off-site backup doesn’t come cheap. If Apple wants to offer something similar to Amazon’s Cloud Locker service in the future, this much storage will certainly come in handy.

It’s interesting Apple is choosing to go the Isilon route rather than use massive amounts of commodity drives the way Google does. Any data experts out there have a theory on that?

(And yes, if you’re trying to figure out how many movies you could store on 12 PB we figure the answer is — very nearly all of them.)

(Storage Newsletter via AI)

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Digitimes says manufacturers delivered 3.4-2.6 million iPad 2 units to Apple in March and are aiming to deliver over 4 million a month — a total of 12 million in conservative estimates — during the next quarter. To put that in context, Apple sold 15 million original iPads during the last 9 months of 2010.

We still haven’t heard anything from Apple regarding iPad 2 sales numbers but their next quarterly conference call, scheduled for April 20, will no doubt give us a definitive answer.

We’re still guessing they sell every single iPad 2 they can make. You?

[Digitimes]

2.5 million iPad 2 built in March, 4+ million more per month on the way? is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.

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Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Words With Friends HD: Update to 4.00 bring Facebook Connect, full multitasking support, and more! [$2.99 - iTunes link]

• CNN App for iPad: Now with AirPlay support. [Free - iTunes link]

• Tweetlist Pro: Added support for t.co link unwrapping, improved photo detection, added photo previews for DailyBooth, and more! [$2.99 - iTunes link]

• Supastar: A collection of games and challenges featuring a lovable star character, known simply as Supastar. Added a new game called Toy Trap and three new challenges titled Magic Ducks, Star Blocks, and Toy Launcher. [$0.99 - iTunes link]

• Kick the Buddy: Need to blow off some steam? Pick up this apps and kick the Buddy, make him a target of a missile, pull Buddy to pieces, play mini-games with him, make him dance and have a whole lot more smashing fun! [$0.99 - iTunes link]

Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think!

New and updated iPhone and iPad apps for Wednesday, April 6 is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.

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Travelers to Madrid, Spain can now rent an iPad 3G from PadInTheCity during their visit. In addition to the iPad, the rental includes unlimited 3G data, a case and charger, and the iPad is loaded with 29 travel and business related apps.

The rental costs €39 ($55) per day and the process is very simple. Booking and payment takes place on PadInTheCity’s website and they will hand deliver the iPad to you when you arrive at your hotel (or at any location you prefer). You will be expected to sign a renter’s contract and provide legal identification as well as a credit card that will have a €500 ($708) hold placed on it. At the end of your trip, PadInTheCity will pick-up the iPad and remove the hold on your credit card.

This is a fantastic option for travelers, possibly even for international ones who own a 3G iPad but don’t want to pay international rates.

Would you like to see iPad rentals in your next vacation spot?

[PadInTheCity via appadvice]

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