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Apple seemed to indicate it would respond with price cuts if demand for the device wasn’t revving up the way it liked.

Maybe all the naysayers who want to wait for the 2nd generation iPad were on to something.

Now it is working on combining the two technologies to produce software capable of understanding a caller’s voice and translating it into a synthetic equivalent in a foreign language. Like a professional human interpreter, the phone would analyse “packages” of speech, listening to the speaker until it understands the full meaning of words and phrases, before attempting translation.

This is a logical step for Google, we'll see just how accurate it is, as Google Voice transcribing can sometimes be, imprecise.

HipHop for PHP isn't technically a compiler itself. Rather it is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it.

While not the first attempt to compile PHP code, this comes from one of the largest companies utilizing PHP on the web, so it's one to keep an eye on.

Marco Arment:

The problem, of course, is that before day one, we won’t have iPads ourselves for development and testing.

Based on the state of the current release of the SDK, I don't think Apple will be accepting iPad apps into the store for day one launch.

The iPad is too different, and the day is too early, to make any sort of call on the success or failure of this thing.

I'll save my own review of the iPad until after I've had the chance to own one for a few weeks.

Facebook has rewritten the PHP runtime from scratch. This coming Tuesday, they will make a big announcement around this project, and will make it available as open source software.

Facebook has every reason to have a deep interest in PHP's speed. We'll find out what, if anything, they announce on Tuesday.

Daniel Tenner:

She doesn’t really need a computer in the same sense that I do, though. As a programmer, I need a machine that is powerful, that I can mess with under the hood, that I can do everything with. My mom needs a reasonably priced machine that Simply Works and does all those simple things that she wants to do when she’s at home.

There have been lots of words written about the iPad since its introduction, and if I were to write my own far reaching thoughts on the iPad, it would probably look something like this.

Rory Marinich:

Other companies are selling computers. Apple’s selling magic.

A hosted version of Drupal running on top of Drupal 7 — which is still on an alpha release — Drupal Gardens aims to make Drupal easy for the non-power users. Drupal Gardens hopes to have the service ready for prime time by the end of the year, and while it's not something I would personally use, it looks to be something I would be happy to recommend.

Google has finally updated the mobile version of the Google Voice site to now function like a true web app. While it's still no native app, it looks and functions much better than it used to.

Steve Jobs:

If you annualize our quarterly revenue, it's surprising that Apple is now a $50+ billion company. The new products we are planning to release this year are very strong, starting this week with a major new product that we're really excited about.

YouTube has released an opt-in program that will allow you to view most of their videos using the HTML5 <video> tag. It's currently only available to Chrome and Safari users.

Amazon announces a Kindle Development Kit (KDK) with a familiar 70/30 revenue split. You can't actually get the KDK until next month, and even then it will be limited. So why announce it now? Perhaps the same reason every PC manufacturer is announcing tablet computers before January 27th.

The Android platform is a much bigger threat to Apple than anything Microsoft can introduce in the mobile phone market. In the meantime, Apple is also purportedly working on their own search offering for the future.

BGR:

“A few new ways” to run applications in the background — multitasking.

They also speculate that iPhone OS 4.0 will only be available for iPhone 3G and 3GS, which seems to be a pretty safe bet.