A few reports have surfaced today that the Apple iPad will likely launch with a camera, despite it not being showed off during Apple's tablet unveiling last week.

A screenshot from the event shows a dot above the screen that looks very much like a camera. A screenshot from the iPad emulator (via the SDK) shows the clear option to "take a photo."

Additionally, Mac repair company Mission Repair is already receiving replacement parts for fixing the iPad, and one employee has showed off a pic of where a camera would fit perfectly.

We will keep you updated.






Pics via Wired, MacNN and CultofMac.

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Toshiba has hinted this week that it may be leaving the LCD production business, a way to curb ever-increasing losses.

Corporate senior executive VP Fumio Muraoka says the strong yen, steep price declines in the units, and shrinking demand may lead to Toshiba needing to leave the business.

Toshiba Mobile Display posted an operating loss of $211 million USD for the months of April to December 2009, which followed losses of $180 million and $110 million for the division for the same periods in 2008 and 2007.

The division used to be a partnership with Panasonic but Toshiba bought out the entire stake in March.

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AndroidCentral has posted pics today of the Motorola Devour Android device, Verizon's first phone to emphasize MOTOBLUR.

The phone will release in silver, and will not have any connection to the "DROID" name, as once expected.

The device will run Android 2.x with MOTOBLUR interface, will have an optical trackpad, and a 3.2MP camera.

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This weekend, Mozilla released the long-anticipated mobile browser, Firefox Mobile 1.0, for the Nokia Maemo.

Hoping to take market share from more established players like Opera, the Firefox browser will include customizable browser extensions as well as Weave Sync, the bookmark and history-syncing extension.

Nokia's open source Maemo OS is only available on the N900 and N810, and the first release will also not include Flash support, which Mozilla fired at Adobe about, citing poor standard of quality. For those hoping to use YouTube without a stand-alone app, you can download the YouTube Enabler add-on.

Windows Mobile is next on the timetable, with Android coming third. Hopefully by then it will be a fully workable browser.

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Wikimedia, the company behind Wikipedia has said this week that they have installed a new server, one that should allow for the "huge influx" of video that is starting to be uploaded to the encyclopedia site.

Besides video coming from volunteers, hundred of hours of footage is coming from recent partnerships with national archives and museums.

In 2008, Wikimedia and open source video platform Kaltura joined forces to bring video to Wikipedia, but apparently the process it "taking a little longer" than originally anticipated.

Says Wikimedia's Head of Communications Jay Walsh about the delay, via NewTeeVee: "We don't work with proprietary video systems." Wikipedia will use the free, open-source codec Ogg Theora for video playback, which many browsers did not even support until recently.

Walsh says to expect at least some rollout of an HTML5-based video player and editor in the next three to six months.

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Cnet has reported today that a 53-year old grandmother almost had her Internet service suspended for alleged piracy, although it was never proven that she had downloaded anything she was accused of.

Qwest Communications told her that she was accused of downloading 18 Hollywood movies including Zombieland and the latest Harry Potter, and that her service was set to be terminated. More harshly, her name would be placed on a blacklist for other ISPs in the area to know what she had done.

Cathi Paradiso is a technical recruiter and obviously needs her computer and working Internet connection to live. She emailed the movie studios accusing her, as well as Cnet, and asked for help: "Take me off your hit list. I have never downloaded a movie. Period... You'll need to admit you made a mistake and move on to the correct perpetrator... I am saying this once more: My computer is not a toy. My livelihood depends on my ISP's reliability. Look for the perpetrator and leave my service alone."

Before shutting her off, Qwest sent out a technician to investigate and they found that her wireless network had been infiltrated and someone had been using it to download the movies.

Adds Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney for the EFF: "This goes to show that there's a problem with due process in these kinds of situations. If you're going to kick somebody off the Internet, there's a lot of procedures that need to be put in place to protect the innocent. It doesn't look like those were in place here."

Read the full post here: Grandma endures wrongful ISP piracy suspension

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According to security researcher Steven Adair, hundreds of prominent websites including those run by the CIA and FBI are currently being attacked by the Pushdo botnet, which floods the sites with junk data.

Other sites being hit include Twitter, Paypal, Google and Microsoft's homepages.

"It seems the Pushdo botnet recently made changes to its code to cause infected nodes to create junk SSL connections to approximately 315 different websites," says Adair. "The bots seem to start to initiate an SSL connection and a bit of junk to the websites and then disconnect. They do not actually request an resources from the website or do anything else other than repeat the cycle periodically."

Pushdo, otherwise known as Pandex or Cutwail, had been around since 2007, and also distributes rootkits and trojans.

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According to new data from ABI Research, the Apple iPhone lost smartphone market share in the fourth quarter 2009 compared to the Q3, dropping from 18.1 percent of all sales in the third to 16.6 in the fourth.

Unit sales grew, to 8.7 million, up from 7.2 million in the Q3, however the overall smartphone market grew 26 percent in the same period, mainly thanks to Motorola's Android phone releases.

A similar trend occurred in the Q4 2008, when the iPhone saw a bit of a dip after a strong Q3.

ABI analyst Michael Morgan made a bold statement following the report, saying Apple could possibly be getting a case of "Razr Burn," a reference to the once-popular Motorola Razr which sold over 100 million units in a short period of time but then completely fell off after two years.

Adds Morgan: "To lose market share in a record quarter, that's got to sting a little bit."

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The blockbuster epic Avatar is set to pass Titanic as the highest-grossing film of all-time today (non adjusted for inflation), also becoming the second movie to ever surpass the $600 million plateau in the United States.

Titanic holds the number one spot with $600,788,188 in sales, and Avatar, by most unofficial accounts, is at $598 million as of print time.

Last week the movie became the worldwide highest grossing film of all-time, surpassing $2 billion in sales.

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