ConsumerIT

Source:  TREFIS

Sales of Apple's new tablet computer could exceed early iPhone sales and total Kindle sales to date.

Apple is only confessing to 300,000 sold but some investors are calculating nearly 700,000. (270,000 iPhones sold during that product's initial launch).

Investors say iPad sales will exceed the 1.12 million iPhones during its first complete sales quarter. In less than a year iPad unit sales will exceed all Kindles sold to-date (3 million).

Few analysts think iPad sales will eclipse iPhone over the long term, but most think between 5 million iPads during the 2010 calendar year and 2.5 million.

iPad may add $1.5 billion to Apple's fiscal fiscal and may become at least 4.3% of the stock value in its first year (see chart at top by Trefis).

Go iPAD Sales in 2010

First OCZ Technology Group unveiled the OCZ Onyx 32GB SATA II 2.5-inch solid-state drive series, "an ultra-affordable" for under $100.

Now Intel ships the 40GB X25-V Value SATA SSD at USD$125.

When it comes to price per gigabyte, HDDs are still far cheaper than SSDs cost from $2.50 to $3 per gigabyte, while hard disk drives cost around 10 cents per gigabyte. There probably will be an uptake of the 40GB SSD, but it's not going to replace a HDD in a notebook at this point.

SSDs are far superior to hard disk drives when it comes to performance, power use and ruggedness. And $100 USD is the right price point to help convert more users to SSD computing.

Go INTEL X25-V Value SATA SSD

RetailVision Europe will bring together Europe's leading retailers, e-tailers and distributors for this year's most important retail-focused buying event...and it's in London for the first time in 15 years.

To be held on 10-12 May 2010 at the Sofitel London Heathrow, Show Director Nick Cabrera (show in photo) says more than 180 have registered to attend.

GfK's Dr. Rudolf Aunkofer will present What's Selling & What's Not referencing GFK's recent report on The IT Market 2010. And our own Editor-in-Chief, Bob Snyder is giving the Annual RetailVision Industry Review, covering the hottest trends and vendors.

Combining a showcase-led exhibition with industry insight sessions, private boardroom appointments and pre-arranged one-to-one meetings, RetailVision 2010 will introduce a new on-stage product showcase, The Retail Factor.

This year, for the first time, you can NOMINATE your favorite products for the well-known RetailVision Awards before the event starts. Look to the link below.

Go RetailVision Europe (to attend or exhibit)

Go To Nominate for the RetailVision Europe Awards

NY Times reports Google and Intel will team up with Sony to develop Google TV to bring the web into the living room through next gen TVs and set-top boxes.

Think social networks and other apps for smartphones that could be brought to television through the use of Android.

Based on Android, Google has allegedly built a prototype STB that runs on Intel’s Atom, but the technology may be incorporated directly into TVs or other devices.

The three companies have already named Logitech to make peripheral devices, including a remote with a tiny keyboard.

Go Here's How Google TV Will Work