Apr 7

-Apple has placed an order for about twelve petabytes (12PB equals to 12,000TB) of storage. According to an inside source, the company will use this storage to “manage the video download of its customers using iTunes”, to us it as a digital media locker that Apple has been purportedly developing for some time but couldn’t launch yet due to licensing restrictions or it could be also to support millions of people taking advantage of cloud storage, courtesy of a MobileMe redesign that some say would go free.

-When the Apple Store went down this morning, there was only one major change in the database when it came back online… the total elimination of the white iPhone 4 from Apple’s database... Not only is the SKU gone from Apple’s system, but images that were once for the white iPhone 4 have now been tweaked to feature the black iPhone 4 instead.

-Although any official hint at how many iPad 2 tablets Apple has sold likely won’t come until later this month, when the Cupertino, Calif. company makes a financial announcement, there are plenty of leaks. If ‘follow the money’ is the mantra in Washington, for the Silicon Valley press corps, the equivalent is ‘follow the supply.’ A new report suggests Apple sold 2.4 million to 2.6 million iPad 2 units in March.

-Your doctor probably loves his or her iPhone for reading news on the go as much as you do. A massive survey of U.S. doctors found that while Android use is growing in the general population, physicians prefer iPhones.Bulletin Healthcare found that iPhone mobile consumption of its subscription-based medical news climbed 45% between June 2010 and February 2011. The growth spurt was found in its 550,000 healthcare providers.Of the 400,000 doctors who read the news via iPhone — that’s roughly half of the practicing physicians in the U.S. — 40% are emergency room physicians.