> Starting today, an additional version of the Nexus One is available from the Google web store that is compatible with AT&T’s 3G network. This new model can be purchased as an unlocked device without a service plan. In addition to AT&T’s 3G network, this device will also run on Rogers Wireless in Canada. And like the first version of the Nexus One, it can be used with most GSM operators globally. via [googlenexusoneboard.blogspot.com](http://googlenexusoneboard.blogspot.com/2010/03/nexus-one-now-compatible-with-at-3g.html)Again, Google is…

> As Google and Apple continue to battle for the mobile marketplace, Google Nexus One may go down as a grand, failed experiment or one that ultimately helped Google learn something that will prove important in years to come,” the firm wrote. via [appleinsider.com](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/03/16/first_gen_iphone_droid_sold_8_times_better_than_nexus_one_debut.html)Nexus One is clearly flopping. Any phone that comes out in 2010 needs to have a better opening weekend than the original iPhone, which came…

> Users on the [AAPL Sanity Board](http://www.investorvillage.com/groups.asp?mb=13977&pt=m&category=A) at Investor Village have taken their order numbers and used them to figure out how many total preorders Apple has taken for the iPad. On Friday, the first day of availability, they determined that an estimated [51,000 units](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/03/12/ipad_50000_sales_in_2_hours_apple_tv_bumped_mysterious_app_icon.html) were sold in the first two hours. By the end of the…

> ## 2. USB ports > > Notebooks and netbooks offer tremendous flexibility via the USB ports. There are USB thumb drives, external USB hard drives, USB webcams, USB headsets, etc. A USB port—along with the right software and drivers—would greatly extend the functionality of the iPad, and enable business professionals to use it for a variety of purposes that it can’t support without them. via [macworld.com](http://www.macworld.com/article/147098/2010/03/ipad_business.html?lsrc=rss_main)Apple isn’t going to put a USB port…

[Galen Gruman of Infoworld:](http://www.macworld.com/article/147073/2010/03/ipad_preorder.html?lsrc=rss_main)> Sure, we can expect Apple to make future innovations in the iPhone OS (which the iPad uses) available to the first generation of iPad devices through OS upgrades—as Apple has nicely done for iPhone and iPod touch owners. But the iPad’s hardware isn’t upgradable, so you’ll be stuck with the iPad’s relatively low amounts of memory and its lack of connectors such as USB that I would…