On January 27th Steve Jobs unveiled Apples latest it product , the iPad . Essentially the iPad fills the gap in between smartphones and laptops. One question remains to be answered, is there a need for a device to bridge the gap in between the two technologies? We're not sure yet, but there is one thing we know, the iPad has some issues... below are 5 of the most glaring. Are you planning on purchasing an iPad? Let us know . 1.

Cheers to my good friend Dixon Jones and the Majestic SEO team as I read that they just received a nice round of funding! Majestic announced this week that it has received substantial funding from a Dutch investor. If you're not aware of what Majestic SEO does,  it is a tech company based in Birmingham Science Park - Aston (UK) which has produced an independent map of the way web pages link to each other on the web.

So after weeks of practically making the whole tech industry in active mode with rumors and photo leaks here and there, Apple finally launched its so called "latest creation." And if you're following the live coverage in various tech blogs, you all know by now that this product is called - the iPad. The Apple iPad is practically a bigger iPod Touch, an e-book reader and tablet device that you can use for web browsing.  Wait,

by Mike Krumboltz Few politicians have suffered a fall from grace as epic as John Edwards . Once a legitimate presidential candidate and vice presidential nominee, the ex-senator is now best known for his wandering eye and refusal to acknowledge the child he had with a former mistress. Today, news hit that Elizabeth Edwards has separated from her husband, pushing aside any talk of reconciliation. Below we round up the cast of characters from the scandalous circus.

I've commented here how Google likes to weave features from its dozens of applications into one another. The idea is to provide a seamless experience. To that end, it's useful for anyone trying to grok Google that they realize that a feature in one application could easily port to another. Google continued to leverage this effort Jan. 27 by bringing personalized search suggestions, a lovely feature fomented on Google.com's core search, to Google Maps.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said today his office is investigating 22 online businesses that deceptively link consumers to fee-based membership programs that charge unauthorized fees for discount offers. The investigation found online shoppers are unknowingly directed to a membership program seller's website that is separate from the online retailers site. Information about joining the membership program and its consequences,

Twitter claims not to be taking an active role in the dispute, but it's definitely applauding developers who try to make Twitter.com available in China and Iran. Ev Williams endorsed workarounds and rejected compromises while speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos. According to John Gapper , Williams said, "We are partially blocked in China and other places and we were in Iran as well." He then continued,

If you are one of those people still skeptical about the business uses of social media, you may be interested to know that Google's Social Search is no longer just an experiment. Though it does have the beta tag on it, it is now mainstream. This is something we've all known would come sooner or later, but now it's here. Have you established enough connections to do well in social search? Comment here .

Thanks to a new deal, Bing's results for local businesses should soon get much better. A report's indicated that Localeze, which specializes in local search, is going to provide something like 14 million business listings for Bing Local and Bing 411 to use. Leena Rao wrote earlier today, "As part of the deal, Bing will use Localeze's premium business content, including more than 500,000 business-verified and managed listings,

Sometime last year, Google rolled out its social search experiement with the aim of making search, well, more social. No, specifically to make relevant web content available of Google search results. By relevant Google means contents from your friends and contacts. So, today after getting good feedback from those who tried out the feature, Google has just released it in beta available to everyone.