Tuesday Apple Rumors: A Reported iPad 3 Sighting Suggests Incremental Upgrades

iPad 3 Prototype Spotted in the Wild: While the web focuses on all the shiny
new toys at this weeks International Consumer Electronics Show, Apple s (NASDAQ:
AAPL ) freakishly devoted acolytes continue to sniff out rumors and news about
those devices conspicuously defining trends at the trade show. The next version
of the iPad tablet is one such device. iLounges Jeremy Horwitz posted potential
features of the iPad 3 on his Twitter account on Friday, claiming that the new
tablet will have improved front and rear cameras, be slightly thicker than the
current model, and will release sometime around March just like its
predecessor's March launch in 2011. Horwitz followed up on Tuesday with a
report that hes gotten to see prototype components used in the new model, and
that these parts indicate that the iPad 3 will be little more than an
incremental upgrade over the iPad 2. This certainly jives with previous rumors
about the device that pointed to a new high-resolution screen as the major
improvement over older models. iPhone 4S Nabs Apple 43% Share of U.S. Smartphone
Market in Fall 11: The NPD Group had good news for Apple in a new report (via
TechCrunch ) on the U.S. smartphone market during the third quarter of 2011.
While Apples share of the market during the third quarter in 2010 was just 26%,
that figure jumped to 43% thanks to strong sales of the new iPhone 4S. This
placees it neck and neck with phones running on Google s (NASDAQ: GOOG ) Android
operating system, which accounted for 47% of smartphones sold throughout October
and November. Thats a steep fall from the 60% market share Android enjoyed
during the same period in 2010. Poor Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM ),
meanwhile, saw its share decline to just 6%, down from 20% the previous year.
OnLive Brings Microsoft Windows to iPad: To date, streaming-media company OnLive
has been in the business of streaming video games to PCs, smartphones, and
tablets. Now the company is streaming PCs to tablets, in a manner of speaking of
course. The company announced a new service at CES that allows iPad users to
stream a complete Microsoft