The iPad is Coming to Wal-Mart [RUMOR]

Rumor has it that select Wal-Mart stores will begin carrying Apple’s popular iPad tablet computer next week, and nearly half of Wal-Mart locations will join the club by the end of November. Wal-Mart would become the latest in a string of retailers that have just become official iPad dealers.
MacRumors received a copy of an e-mail allegedly sent to Wal-Mart store managers to let them know that each store will receive five of each of the six iPad models, plus accessories like a wireless keyboard, a dock and a case. 1,000 of Wal-Mart’s approximately 3,550 stores will carry the iPad models by the end of this month, with the first stores to carry stock doing so sometime next week. By the end of November, 800 more stores will carry the iPad.
Wal-Mart’s senior vice president of entertainment said earlier this year that he hoped the department store would carry the iPad by the end of the year. The device has been selling very well since its debut, so big profits aren’t out of the question.
You could only buy and iPad directly from Apple or at Best Buy stores when the tablet was first released, but now it’s available at Target and Amazon , too. Apple’s trying to put the device in front of more consumers, presumably to move further beyond the gadget enthusiast crowd to draw more casual technology users, for whom the company believes the simple-but-sophisticated device is well-suited.

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Internet Tethering Coming to iPad [RUMOR]

When Steve Jobs said the iPad wouldn’t support Internet tethering, the hearts of many Apple fans sunk. It meant that even if you already owned an iPhone, you couldn’t use it to connect your iPad to the Internet, which could be handy in places with no open Wi-Fi connection.

Sure, you can buy the 3G version of the iPad, which gives you the freedom to connect to the internet almost anywhere, but it comes with additional costs.

Of course, it works both ways — if you want to share your iPad’s net connection with another device, you cannot do that either.

Now, however, a glimmer of hope has appeared for those longing for tethering support on the iPad. 9to5Mac has a screenshot from the beta 2 of iOS 4.2 (with the iPad running on the Swedish network 3) that shows a new section, dedicated to tethering, within the APN network settings.

Don’t get too excited, though. This type of tethering, if it ever gets implemented to a final version of iOS, would only let you share the iPad’s connection with another device, as opposed to connecting the iPad to the internet through an iPhone’s connection. Furthermore, 9to5Mac claims it could not replicate this new settings pane on an iPad 3G running on AT&T’s network, which might mean that the setting will be present only if the carrier allows it — and that might not be the case with AT&T.