As the iPad fever springs this summer on Apple’s platform, and the industry waits impatiently for the nifty device to showcase its talents, I too gear up my sneakers to gather all the amazing news coming up. Be it the app approval system for iPad or the revealing statistics of the app store, which I would be following up today, iPad is picking up pace in the media world.

Studies prove gaming applications as decently strong in the iPad App store where as other categories such as entertainment, social networking, sports, travel, lifestyle, utilities, books, finance, music, news, productivity and others are less effective and attractive in the niche.

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Everyone in the blogsphere is talking of iPhone to leave AT&T exclusivity, soon. This, to me, is a much needed step that Apple should be taking for expanding its sales and shading off the burden of the trillions bits of data, which AT&T currently bears. It is equally good for the iPhone enchanted consumer base that has complaints against network efficiency, resulting from the bandwidth load.

Stories are that Apple may announce in its coming event tomorrow, that T-Mobile will be the next iPhone carrier. Not just T-Mobile but other US carriers including Verizone, Sprint and Clearwire will also be joining the league soon; as stated by Tim Horan, the telecom analyst at Oppenheimer & Co.

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