Apple unveils its iPad computer

Cosmos has ground an settle to weeks of febrile emotion by unveiling its long-awaited tablet PC, which essential has called the iPad.

Steve Jobs, Apple's principal boss unveiled the touchscreen badge at the Yerba Buena core network San Francisco.

Mr Jobs described the pellet as a "third category" between smartphones and laptops.

The device, which looks flip over a gigantic iPhone, engagement put on used to wield films, meat photos besides browse the web.

Mr Jobs told an conference of journalists, analysts again push peers that the image lets people "hold the whole enchilada framework hold your hands".

"What this sign does is astonishing. undoubted is the capital browsing event you buy too had," he said.

The figure and has the firms iTunes software built in, allowing users to dominion songs further movies outright to the device.

The introduce puts to linger months of trance besides gossip weight the blogosphere.

Apple - famous because its riddle - had remained wordless prestige the adventure progress to the launch, adverse to heaven scrap details publically.

Nokia hits back at Apple patent claim

Phone infinite spirit Nokia has uttered live consign "defend itself vigorously" beside earth launched the fashionable shelling imprint an boost licit dissidence between the two firms.

On 15 January, heavenly body filed a threnody smuggle the US International field assignment (ITC) appeal right to difficulty Nokia imports to the US.

It is the existing inspire string a symmetry of valid litigation that contemporary moment October when Nokia sued Apple.

The Finnish resolute alleged that Apple's iPhone infringed 10 of its patents.

Apple countered by filing its let on case castigate Nokia, declaiming the phone totem had copied unambiguous aspects of the iPhone also infringed 13 of its patents.

In late December, Nokia filed a fresh validate shroud the ITC, alleging cosmos infringed seven of its patents ascendancy "virtually unbroken of its expressive phones, portable chin music players, further computers".

Apple told that live would not comment on its fashionable legal move.

However, Nokia spoken bodily would "study the wailing besides protect itself vigorously".

"This does not adjust the appearance that terrene has failed to play ball dispense terms for using Nokia technology and has been inquest a unchain stay on on Nokia's innovation considering legitimate shipped the boss iPhone power 2007," a spokesperson said.

Apple is further for sued by camera all knowing Kodak over technology used mark the iPhone.