Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced this morning in the iPhone OS 4.0 presentation ceremony, some of the recent statistics on its new, much-talked IPAD. According to Jobs iPads 450,000 have been sold over and 350,000 of them were sold on the day of release alone. Apple announced that it had sold 300,000 units on launch day, but has been otherwise this morning. 600,000 iBooks have been sold so far with 250,000 sold in the first day.

Techcrunch reports that iTunes will soon allow a “Facebook Connect” which allows users to share their latest shopping with friends in Facebook. No confirmation of the date of when this will happen, but it seems that the two tech giants will soon seal the deal.

This was not a total surprise that iTunes has been trying to promote Fanpage on Facebook and meet as follows and are being promoted in iTunes iself.

iTunes already had the option to allow users to share songs through Facebook and Twitter, but this feature is expected to make it easier. This would also allow Apple to use massively growing user base of Facebook most exciting and productive ways.

Aggregators search engines that combine results from multiple sites that are nothing new, but Heapr.com combines the expected results from Google with Twitter, Wolfram Alpha and the Wikipedia for a very contemporary mix of results. The searches were completed RELEASE OF KEY that allows faster, more fluid user experience.

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Heapr presents the results generated by Google on the left side of the screen, while you can choose from the right sources. Alpha One could say that Wolfram is the most interesting addition, as the Wikipedia results often appear high in Google anyway, although in practice Wolfram can not cope well with many standard search.

It also provides the results of Google Heapr image along side of the image results from Flickr and allows you to browse YouTube, Hulu, Vimeo and videos together.

A browser plugin for Firefox, Chrome, IE and users is provided.

Apple is expected to announce the launch of its gaming console long speculated the nickname iGame. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been tightlipped about the new product and in a recent interview with Larry King described the new product as “gaming with coolness.”

The iGame is expected to take on Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony Playstation game in a very competitive space. The iGame is expected to include an application store similar to the Xbox market which will allow developers to sell their games directly. Game industry analyst Jamie Stanfield believes this will revolutionize the industry in a manner that provides greater choice and flexibility. “I’ve spoken to some very close observers in the field of Apple and although neither confirming nor denying that it is a game console, the language suggests that we can expect a next-generation console,” said Stanfield.

Expected features

In general, it is rumored that the iGame have three symmetrical cores each running at 3.8 GHz with 2MB L2 cache. The documentation and patent applications have shown that Apple has partnered with Nvidia to offer a 700 MHz processor with 25 MB of embedded DRAM graphics.

Unlike the original project designs were obtained patent document states that the iGame not have any standard controller, but characteristic of a wireless peripheral that will allow users to interact with the user interface through natural iGame using gestures or command voice.

It is not known whether the iGame support iTunes but judging by the unit of Apple to integrate all services and platforms, is expected to be included by default.

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