The ship date for iPad pre-orders, originally set to guarantee delivery by April 3, had been pushed back to Tuesday, April 12, and the the option to reserve an iPad for pick-up at an Apple Store has disappeared from Apple.com entirely, reports “Fortune” (http://macosg.me/2/1k).
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has once again made the “30 most respected CEOs in the world list by “Barron’s” (http://online.barrons.com/article/SB126964409156568321.html?mod=BOL_hpp_highlight#articleTabs%3Darticle).
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Apple now owns the iPad trademark. The trademark was filed by Fujitsu in March of 2003 for their iPad wireless handheld computing device used by retailers. Records at the U.S. Patent and Trademark office show that the trademark was assigned to Apple on March 17, reports the Patent Authority (http://patentauthority.com/2010/03/apple-buys-ipad-trademark-from-fujitsu/).
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Apple is preparing to announce its “next big thing”: a new personalized, mobile advertising system that could well be called the “iAd,” according to “Online Media Daily” (http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=125076).
More than a million restricted shares of Apple stock that seven of them were granted on Dec. 14, 2005 became fully vested Wednesday. The next day, with Apple opening at an all-time record high, four of them sold off all those shares pursuant, as the SEC Form 4 has it, to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, reports “Fortune” (http://macosg.me/2/18).
Chief Operating Office Tim Cook was the “big winner,” the article adds. He sold 300,000 Apple shares at prices ranging from US$226.9 to $230.7, for a total of $68.8 million — $32 million of which was set aside for taxes.
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