Apple released iOS 3.2.2 for the iPad and, of course, iOS 4.0.2 for the iPhone.
The release fixes a critical bug, used by jailbreakme.com to jailbreak iOS devices in a breeze, but way more potentially nasty if exploited by malware.
At the moment there’s no news of such an attack circulating and maybe no one will come. But, do a favor to yourself and your iPad, and please update NOW.
Those who prefer it jailbroken have to wait a little, we suppose, just the time to get noticed by Dev-Team or whoever else …

The ultimate iPad accessory is born: newPCgadgets has packaged together Security Case with the stainless steel Vanity Plate.
Protection and custom look in the same package is a strong proposition.
The Security Case for iPad features black leather construction with a two-digit combination lock.
The Vanity Plate secures to any iPad case and bears an engraving, for the most customized look and valuable contact information is your iPad gets unfortunately lost.
Until August 31st, ordering Security Case for the iPad ($44.95 USD) brings also Vanity Plate at no additional cost, that is, a savings …

Intersog LLC announced Pocket Manager – Accounting for Management, a new learning app for iOS that provides an in-depth, yet easy to understand overview of essential accounting concepts.
You managers, you students, can’t allow to pass the opportunity.
The full-featured business course logically divided into 3 distinct sections: course, flashcards and tests. The full-text course book contains 11 chapters, each highlighting a critical accounting issue.
Pocket Manager – Accounting for Management: Concepts and Tools 1.0 is worth $39.99 USD, €31.99.

Rupert Murdoch, media mogul and owner of Sky Television and Wall Street Journal among many others, declared that iPad will be a game changer for newspapers. [Seen Pulse newsreader? — Ed.]
Here are samples of his thought about the matter.
It’s a real game changer in the presentation of news.
We will have young people reading newspapers. We will have different looking types of newspapers.
There will be all sorts of things we can do with them.
We have had a very encouraging number of people subscribing at a good price.
But we think we are …

Couldn’t you get still rid of those obnoxious PDF documents and books, since you have to cope with people that cannot adequately speak Epub? Don’t worry, time will come. Meanwhile, you can read the PDF files in Goodreader and many others PDF viewers.
Moreover, you can do that in iBooks too, thanks to the recent update by Apple. Go this way to put a PDF file in your iBooks shelf:
Connect your iPad to your computer.
Drag the PDF file icon in your iTunes library, on the Books icon, and drop it. Name …

Nordersoft announced WordMesh HD 1.0, a self-described fresh new word game for the iPad, beautifully rendered in 3D, where players simply flick the letters up and down in space to solve the WordMesh, which, seems easy and, sometimes, it’s not.
WordMesh HD 1.0 is free to download, with a full unlock within app for $1.99, £1.19, €1.59.

Intersog announced Pocket MBA Full Course (Part 1), allegedly the most complete business education collection ever created for the iPad.
The app is available with a $50 discount for a limited time, at $399.99 (€319.99) instead of $449.99.
…learn to get it, while offer lasts.

Phasic Labs published Hexius Lite 1.3, fast-paced action-puzzle game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Hexius has 3 game modes, global/friend scores, weekly score challenges, achievements, regular updates, and more. The new free Lite version includes Time Attack mode, and the firts 6 levels of Level Challenge mode.
Hexius Lite 1.3 is free and immediately available on the App Store. Look at the video to see the gameplay demo!

Revenue from the Apple Stores worldwide was $2.58 billion in Spring quarter for Apple… and one of the primary reasons is iPad.
This number beats any whole Apple quarter from Winter of 1996 through Summer of 2004.
The launch of the iPad helped to increase visitors per store by 38.7 percent, same-store revenues by 52.9 percent, and non-Mac revenues by 106.3 percent.
Astonishing, since Macs are sold very well inside Apple Stores.
[via D|All Things Digital]

I-Imagine Interactive announced Football Genius HD, a trivia game about, ehm, soccer. It depends on what country you browse from, exactly: people from USA, Canada, and Australia will have to look for Soccer Genius in their App Store instead.
Whatever the name, the game features more than 3,500 unique question about the game, with competitive online play, downloadable content, and support for video and audio chat.
Football Genius HD, or Soccer Genius HD, is the iPad version of the same game for Xbox 360 Live Arcade. But you cannot play with an …

Oakville Stamping & Bending announced Gardener’s Buddy 1.0, claiming that is the first plant mapping and recording app for iPad.
The gardener starts creating on a computer a sketch or a map of the garden, to transfer it into the app via iTunes.
The app then generates 25 monthly maps, each with seven planting layers with icon denoting trees, bushes, bulbs, perennials, annuals, herbs, and vegetables.
Every month the app generates a new map and deletes the oldest record.
Gardener’s Buddy allows for multiple users and has a panply of commands for describing and …

Apple iPad is gaining space and attention at BBC.
British Broadcasting Corporation is trialling the device at various level of the organisation, to see if and at what extent managers and other people inside the company can get rid of their desktop computers.
John Linwood, The Beeb’s Chief Information Officer, says that iPad could be better than a handheld computer in several circumstances [of course. — Ed].
If a support engineer gets called into a studio, it would be handy to have a device where you could look up circuit diagrams or software …

Excellent app for taking notes *and* simultaneously record audio memos.

Psychographic, we can read on MyType Blog, drives preferences and everyday behavior. So intellectuals love the movie Apocalypse Now, innovators like the board game Risk, and extroverts are more likely to drink at Starbucks.
Well, the psychographer on duty – you will know already – stated that iPad users are more likely to be selfish elitists.
And his numbers, wow!, are in line with results from a recent Forrester survey (he writes Forrestor, maybe on behalf of scientific accuracy).
You’ll be delighted to know that Forrester (Sarah crystal-ball Rotman Epps, to be precise; …

Reuters shooter Scott Audette has posted a brief story highlighting the successful use of a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and an Internet-connected Wireless File Transmitter WFT-E4 II A to cover the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis last month. The workflow included extracting pictures from afar as well as remote camera control testing using an Apple iPad.
Called Space Shuttles, 5d Mark II’s and ipads, oh my!, Audette’s story is an interesting read and illustrates how much wireless and remote access technology has advanced over the years (though there’s plenty of …

CNN has launched an international news app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, in a move described by the company’s VP for mobile as “revolutionary”.
The interactive app enables users to follow news from across CNN’s outlets, as well as providing a section dedicated to their iReport platform.
The network launched a US-only, paid news app last year but the international version, which became available today, will be free to users outside of the US.
Speaking to Journalism.co.uk at the Frontline Club event on mobile newsgathering, CNN’s VP for mobile Louis Gump said …

Now I’ve got an iPad, and I really enjoy it. I can even imagine bringing it into bed to read a book or play a game on occasion. And while I’d love to have a place to charge my iPad by my bedside table, the idea of an alarm clock dock for the iPad seems a little silly. But that’s what iHome has decided to give us in their new iA100ZE iPad Dock clock radio.
The dock can be set to sleep or wake with your …

Apple announced yesterday that the iPad tablet device would go on sale in nine more countries as of Friday, July 23.
The new countries are Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Singapore. Customers in these countries will be able to buy any of the six iPad models via Apple’s retail stores or Apple Authorized Resellers.
These nine join existing countries Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S., bringing the total availability to nineteen countries. Apple says more countries will be …