Morgan Stanley: “IPad on Pace to Become One of the Most Popular Mobile Devices in History”

Apple’s iPad may prove to be the fastest-ramping mobile Internet device ever, and if not that, then the second fastest, after the netbook. This according to Morgan Stanley (MS) analyst Katy Huberty, who in an adulatory research note this morning says the iPad is on track to become one of the most popular mobile devices in history.

Driving this thesis: Strong early demand for the device, iPad Internet usage patterns and evidence of netbook cannibalization (and, perhaps, a wee bit of hyperbole).

With two million iPads sold globally in under two months (see charts below; click to enlarge), Huberty’s first point is self-evident. Her second and third are worth a closer look, though.

Huberty’s analysis suggests that Apple’s (AAPL) iPad has already surpassed the Web browsing market share of Google’s (GOOG) Android and Research in Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry.

“Why is this important?” Huberty asks. “Web browsing is arguably the most important computing task for the average user and early adopters are realizing similar productivity levels relative to traditional PCs. Based on our experience with iPad Web browsing, we would not be surprised to see tablet daily Internet usage exceed traditional PC Internet usage in the coming years.”

Which is interesting. In Huberty’s view, the iPad is already becoming more PC than PC companion. And that transformation will likely quicken with the debut of multitasking in iOS 4 and more robust productivity and content-creation apps.

As Huberty notes, while the majority of iPhone/iPod touch downloads are gaming related (82 percent), iPad app downloads are more evenly distributed among gaming (36 percent), content (28 percent), productivity (20 percent) and utilities (16 percent).

As for netbook cannibalization, Huberty is convinced that the iPad is at least partially responsible for recent slowing in the growth of netbook sales. “While we don’t think all tablet sales will cannibalize the low-end notebook and netbook market, we continue to believe that the initial addressable market is low- to mid-range consumer notebooks, representing 120 million units annually,” she writes.

“While the iPad launched just two months ago,” Huberty adds, “we already see signs of cannibalization, mainly in the U.S. netbook market. Netbook units declined YoY for the first time in April 2010, the same month Apple launched the iPad. We attribute the slowdown to iPad sales, purchase deferrals in anticipation of future tablet launches and what looks like the saturation of the netbook market at around 10-12 percent of total PC sales.”

With that in mind, Huberty raised her estimate for calendar 2010 iPad shipments to 10 million from six million and said that Apple may well sell 15 million in calendar 2011.

How to convert all popular video and audio files to iPod on Mac OS

Want to convert all popular video files MP4 format for Mac OS X? Aiseesoft MP4 Video Converter for Mac is a perfect solution to MP4 video format conversion. It can convert your videos to iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, PSP, and so on. To convert your video files with Aiseesoft MP4 Video Converter for Mac, you can just following the steps below:

Note: This guide is for Mac users, if you use windows, please see how to convert all video to MP4 format on windows!

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Reference of Aiseesoft MP4 converter for Mac:
Input Video formats: ASF, MPEG1, MPEG2, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, MPG, MOV, FLV, TS/TP (for HD Video), AVI, etc.
Iutput Video formats: MP3, M4A, AAC, AC3, etc.
Onput Audio formats: MP4, AVI.
Output Audio formats: MP3, M4A, AAC
Support Devices: iPod , iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, PSP, PS3, Cell Phone, Creative Zen, iRiver, MP4 player and MP3 player

Step 1: Add Video files
Click the "Add File" button to add video files to the program by automatically selecting an appropriate encoder for the video files you want to convert to the program.

Step 2: Output Settings
After you add video files, you can select an output format for each video file and specify a directory on your computer to save the output files.
This powerful Mac mp4 converter supports various mp4 formats to support your different MP4 devices. For example, you can choose iPod Video MPEG-4/H.264, iPod touch/nano/classic MPEG-4, iPhone Video MPEG-4, PSP Video MPEG-4, etc. So you can easily select the proper format according to the device's name.
If you want to merge all added video files into one file, you can check the "Merge into one file" option. If you don't want to use the default video and audio encoding settings, just click the Settings button to set these settings.

Step 3: Start Conversion
Click the “Start” button to start conversion and then you can just go out for a walk or take a nap, and the conversion may have been finished when you come back: )

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How to convert AVI, MPEG, FLV, WMV, MOV, 3GP to MP4 for iPhone

You may ask how to convert video to iPhone video for playback on iPhone easily? Here is a step-by-step guide designed to help you get started using Aiseesoft iPhone Movie converter to convert all various popular video/ audio formats to iPhone?

In this Guide, you will find 2 main parts, and let’s begin from Part 1.

Part 1: How to accomplish the conversion in an easiest and common way.
Step 1: Download Aiseesoft iPhone Movie converter, install and run it;
Step 2: Add files - Click ‘Add File’ button to import versatile video files which you want to convert; or another way, click ‘File”, you also can add files directly;
Step 3: Choose the output format
- Click the “Profile” drop-down menu to choose which output format you want;
- Click the “Browse” menu to find the destination folder for saving output file.



Details: Choose the output format, Here below show some supported formats



If you want to complete the conversion by default settings, just click the “Start” button to begin the convert. It is the easiest way to finish the whole converting process only with 3 steps.



Details: if you don’t like the default setting, you want to set the values as you want, now, you can click the “settings” button to open the settings’ window and set output files such as output format and set the video parameters (such as resolution, frame bite, encoder, and bit rate) or audio parameters (such as sample rate, channel, encoder and bit rate, etc; Is it so easy, all right?

Part 2: Advanced settings
Here some tips on how to perform these advanced functions. Let us start at clicking ‘Crop’ Button;
Step 1: Crop - Click the “Crop” button to cut off the black edges, in this way you will enjoy your movies in a full screen;


Tips: Move your mouse cursor to a box on the frame around the video, and drag the frame to crop your video. Or you can choose a crop option from 'No Crop, Cut off top and bottom black edges, Cut off top black edge, Cut off bottom black edge, Cut off left and right black edges and Cut off all black edges, etc;

Step 2: Trim-Trim- As you have selected the clips to convert, here you can trim any segment of your clips to convert by clicking the 'Trim' button;



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How to convert WAV to MP3

The next tip teaches you how to step by step convert WAV to MP3 with Aiseesoft Audio Converter.

1. Free download the easy-to-use WAV to MP3 Converter, install and launch.

2. Add the WAV music files from the "File" menu.

3. Choose the proper output folder and the output MP3 format in Profile list.

4. Click Start button to begin WAV to MP3 conversion. After a few minutes, you can play the converted MP3 files on your portable music devices like PSP, iPod.

E-Books Rewrite Bookselling

In the massive new Barnes & Noble (BKS) superstore on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, generous display space is devoted to baby blankets, Art Deco flight clocks, stationery and adult games like Risk and Stratego.

The eclectic merchandise, which has nothing to do with books, may be a glimpse into the future of Barnes & Noble Inc., the nation’s largest book chain.

For 40 years, Barnes & Noble has dominated bookstore retailing. In the 1970s it revolutionized publishing by championing discount hardcover best sellers. In the 1990s, it helped pioneer book superstores with selections so vast that they put many independent bookstores out of business.

Today it boasts 1,362 stores, including 719 superstores with 18.8 million square feet of retail space–the equivalent of 13 Yankee Stadiums.

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Metafilter and the Russian Sex Slaves That Never Were

I’m part of a vocal minority in a conversation over at Metafilter that has gotten a lot of attention from other blogs, and on the websites of popular print-based publications like Newsweek and Mother Jones. I’m disappointed at the lack of critical thinking and willingness to embrace the hype all round, and the mefi threads have proven unfriendly to skepticism, so I’m going to lay out my ideas here. I’ll also ping others who seem to share my concerns to some extent or other, in hope that they may see this post as a place to comment on the phenomenon, relatively unfettered by hype.

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The Incredible Slipping Delivery Date

Verizon Wireless’ (VZ) newest flagship phone, HTC’s Droid Incredible, is living up to the name: It’s incredibly hard to find in stores.

Impossible, actually. The phone sold out soon after hitting shelves on April 29 and has been on back-order for over a week. Even more frustrating for Droid fanatics, the date for when it will ship has been a moving target, getting pushed further and further back as orders pile up.

Customers can order a Droid today and have it by June 15–if it was ordered a week ago, the ship date was June 8. Either way, few people ordering their Incredibles will get them before Steve Jobs takes the stage on June 7 at Apple’s (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference, where he is widely expected to pull the cloth off of the new iPhone.

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