Apple contacted The New York Times to discuss getting the newspaper content on the upcoming Apple Tablet. Other rumors suggest Apple wants to bring interactive comics to the tablet computer. They also contacted Australian media companies about the same proposal. And before that, rumors leaked about Foxconn being the most likely manufacturer of [...]

Apple is working on some sort of tablet computer, which has reportedly been eating up much of Steve Jobs’ time. So it makes sense that Apple engineers would be spending more time on planes lately, shuttling between the U.S. and Asia, where its manufacturing occurs. Indeed, a source tells us a system integration engineer friend [...]

ChinaOnTrade, an online wholesale retailer has now been stocking what it claims is an “Original Apple iTablet iPhone 4 Generation SIM Tray” acquired from the OEM and is priced at $14.05. According to the website, the fourth generation SIM tray is wider than the present iPhone 3GS SIM tray at 21.7mm. Also, it has a [...]

No, Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) didn’t confirm the long-held rumors of an Apple tablet on its fourth-quarter earnings call. But Apple — seemingly always aware of its ability to leverage rumor, implication and innuendo to its advantage — did seem to drop a few hints in the midst of reporting details of its most profitable quarter in [...]

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) will be Apple’s manufacturing partner for the long rumoured Apple tablet. That’s according to DigiTimes who yesterday cited unnamed market sources and claimed Foxconn is likely to initially supply around 300,000 to 400,000 tablets to Apple.
The report suggested a similar timescale for the launch as previous reports with a [...]