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"&amp;lt;vc&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;A new Japanese report has clarified earlier claims of an Apple event in February with the cryptic details that Apple will hold a \"Strange\" event in February and a Special Event to launch the third-generation iPad in early March.&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;\r\n\r\n&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Macotakara&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; claimed &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/17/rumor_apple_to_hold_ipad_3_ios_51_event_in_early_february_.html\"&amp;gt;last month&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; that Apple would hold an event in February to unveil the so-called \"iPad 3\" and iOS 5.1, citing both an Asian supplier and a source in the U.S. However, blogger Danbo has &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.macotakara.jp/blog/index.php?ID=15589\"&amp;gt;now corrected&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; the original claim as only telling a \"half-side of truth.\"\r\n\r\nAccording to him, Apple will indeed hold an event in February, but it will be a \"Strange\" event rather than a full product launch. The author was unable to provide further details on what exactly a strange event would entail, though he did reiterate to &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;AppleInsider&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; that it would not be a product event.\r\n\r\nOne possibility is that the rumored February event could contain industry-related announcements similar to how last month's education event in New York City to mark the release of &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/19/apple_plans_to_reinvent_the_textbook_with_ibooks_2_for_ipad_/\"&amp;gt;iBooks 2&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/19/apples_new_ibooks_author_aims_to_simplify_e_book_creation_/\"&amp;gt;iBooks Author&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; without showing off new hardware.\r\n\r\n\"Special Event for new products will be hold in early March and will release products during March as usual,\" Danbo continued.\r\n\r\nThe publication's most-recent corrections put its insider information more in line with other reports that have pegged March as the month that Apple will release its new iPad, similar to last year. &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Bloomberg&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; reported &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/13/bloomberg_ipad_3_production_underway_to_launch_in_march.html\"&amp;gt;last month&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; that production for the next-gen iPad was already underway ahead of a March launch. That report also claimed that the device would feature a high-resolution display, LTE compatibility and a quad-core processor. Rumors out of Taiwan have also &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/06/rumored_march_launch_of_high_res_ipad_3_portrayed_as_completely_accurate.html\"&amp;gt;pointed to March&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; as the time frame for the launch.\r\n\r\nThe third-generation iPad is generally believed to feature a doubled-resolution display with a pixel density of 254 pixels per inch. Apple is also expected to unveil its next-generation A6 processor alongside the next iPad as it did with the A5 and the iPad 2 last year.\r\n\r\nAs for iOS 5.1, a &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/17/ios_51_beta_3_hints_apple_is_planning_deep_facebook_integration_.html\"&amp;gt;beta release&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; of the software provided by Apple to developers appears to contain references to deep Facebook integration similar to system-wide elements for Twitter that the company built into iOS 5."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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