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Comic book fans with iPads: You have two new reasons to get excited today.

A new application, Comic Viewer, has just been approved in the App Store. And today’s update of the popular e-reading app Stanza enables it to work on the iPad — and, more importantly, to display comics.

Comic Viewer comes at a reasonable price of $5, compared to the $8 you have to spit out for Comic Zeal, another comic-reading app. Sti

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Apple says it’s sold more than two million iPads less than 60 days after they were introduced.

Folks may still be skeptical about tablet computing devices, but Apple nonetheless seems to have a success in it’s hands with the iPad: the company has just announced it had sold over 2 million iPads, and it’s hit that sales milestone less than 60 days after the devices were first launched to consumers in the United States.

The announcement comes on the same weekend Apple first began offering the iPad for sale outside the United States; sales started this weekend in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. App

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ASRock demonstrates that the power rating output through the USB is 1.5A after installing the driver on ASRock N68 board. This enables it to charge up the iPad 40% faster than normal. To prove it, they used an osciliscope to measure the amperage. See pictures below.

The iPad’s lower-than-expected price may go lower still if the device doesn’t perform as well at market as Apple hopes. Recounting his recent meeting with some executives from the company in a research note issued last night, Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope said Apple is evidently quite willing to get even more aggressive with the iPad’s $499 to $829 pricing.

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“While it remains to be seen how much traction the iPad gets initially, management noted that it will remain nimble (pricing could change if the company is not attracting as many customers as anticipated),” Shope wrote.

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