Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers – Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products – but beyond that there are few joint interests.

casa.sapo.pt  launches iPad applet

Hardly a week after iPad’s Worldwide launch, the Portuguese leading real estate portal – casa.sapo.pt – has just released a new applet that offers iPad users a dedicated tool to search properties on the new platform.

The applet will allow future iPad users to access, browse and search properties on the real estate portal in a totally new perspective due to the touch-screen technology available.

The touch-screen technology integrated with the new applet offers a deep, highly interactive, use of the most advanced functionalities such as property details, contact realtor, and a completely new map-controlled search engine.

The Ipad: 0 .5 inches thin, 1.5 pounds – 9.7 inch IPS display

All the info in: Engadget

Jason Calacanis, co-funder of  Weblogs, Inc., a blog network comprising some high end blogs like Engadget and TUAW, as published in His Twitter early this morning and revealed some important details about the new Apple tablet.

“This is the best gadget ever made and all the hype about it was not exaggerated!”

According to Jason, he took part in the highly selected beta testers group, and has been testing it for the last couple of weeks. Apparently his confidentiality contract as ended today and he can reveal some, but not all, details: – Oled Screen – HDTV Receiver and PVR – Personal Video Recorder  – Battery Solar chargeable – Compatible with the Apple wireless keyboard – login via fingerprint recognition – same OS as the Iphone. – Prices around 599$, 699$ e 799$, depending of the HD and RAM specs. – Wireless and 3G – Vídeo-out to connect an external monitor

Since yesterday there as been a peak at all the speculation involving the new Apple Tablet,  since the rumors now come from top notch players.

There are now photos from the alleged device, bolted to a table – not to be stolen, where we can see a iPhone like 9 or 10´´ screen running what seems to be an iPhone app.

We will be expecting an official announcement from Apple, to confirm the rumors and end the (or begin a greater) hysteria about it.

You can see the “alleged Apple tablet pictures” in the engadget website: www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/is-this-the-apple-tablet/

McGraw-Hill’s CEO has outed the iTablet before Apple’s

“Come see our latest creation” event, scheduled for tomorrow, revealed it runs the iPhone OS, and undoubtedly has just earned himself a “bag of hurt” at the hands of one Steve Jobs.

At 2:50 seconds in, Terry McGraw tells CNBC:

(via www.theiphoneblog.com)

We will follow up on this subject latter on.