Apple have updated their Australian site to state that the iPad launch has been pushed back a month. Australian iPad fans will have to wait til ‘late April’, to get their hands on the WiFi version of the iPad, and even later for the 3G edition.

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Officially announced by Apple, the iPad will launch in the USA on April 3rd now, with pre-orders available from March 26th.

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Analysts believe that a small delay in release of the iPad is due to hardware production problems; however, it may actually be due to software. Yesterday analysts at Think Equity said checks with Taiwan indicated some slight delays in the gearing up in production of the iPad. Their report corroborated an earlier one by Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek who believed a production problem at a Hon Hai Precision plant could limit the iPad launch to the USA or even delay the launch for a month. Today Apple announced that the iPad would ship April 3rd, a week later then expected.

John Gruber from Daring Fireball believes this slight delay is actually due to software, not hardware. My sources suggest that Misek is wrong. It was the software, not the hardware, that took a week or two longer to finish than they’d hoped. Nothing extraordinary or unusual, just the usual hard-to-predict timing of turning software that’s almost ready to ship into software that’s ready to ship. In the grand history of major OS release date slips, one week is pretty tame.

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GumballTech found that if you enter your iPad passcode lock incorrectly a few times, the iPad brings up an Emergency Call Screen.

The above was easily achieved by enabled a passcode lock, and then entering it incorrectly about 5 times. You can then slide for a emergency call.

The Emergency Call Screen is formatted for the iPad with wider buttons and a centered keypad. Its unclear if this capability is required by the FCC; however, if the iPad can make emergency calls it will likely be hacked to make regular phone calls as well.

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Responding to reports of a manufacturing bottleneck in iPad production, Foxconn component suppliers say they are on schedule, according to a DigiTimes report.

In response to reports that initial volumes of Apple’s iPad in late March will be lower than originally planned and the launch will be only in the US market because production by Foxconn Electronics has been delayed, Foxconn’s component suppliers have said their supplies are on schedule and Foxconn should be able to ship 600,000-700,000 iPads in March and one million units in April.

Their sources say that Apple is unlikely to change or delay launch plans.

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AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson doesn’t believe the iPad will result in many new subscriptions for the company as customers will instead use Wi-Fi, according to comments made on Tuesday.

“My expectation is that there’s not going to be a lot of people out there looking for another subscription,” he said during a webcast of an investor conference, adding that the iPad would be a mainly “Wi-Fi driven product.”

Reuters reports that when asked about AT&T exclusive rights to sell the iPhone, Stephenson said the iPhone would be “an important part” of their line up “for quite some period of time”.

In regards to poor network conditions in San Francisco and New York City Stephenson said, “We’ve got a ways to go, but we think this quarter will really move the needle considerably in both of these markets.”

Stephenson also reiterated his belief that the future will bring variable pricing on data usage.

“For the industry, we’ll progressively move towards more of what I call variable pricing so the heavy (use) consumers will pay more than the lower consumers,” Stephenson said.

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Rupert Murdoch has confirmed that the WSJ will be coming to the iPad and that the Journal already has the device to work with. Interestingly his comments made after a speech in New York make it sound like Apple is responsible for the security of the device. Mr. Murdoch said the Journal planned to be on Apple Inc.’s iPad tablet computer.

“In fact, we’ve been allowed to work on one, and it’s under padlock and key. The key is turned by Apple every night,” he said in response to a question. “But we will be on that with The Wall Street Journal.”

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The Omni Group apparently isn’t the only long-time Macintosh developer looking to bring their software to the iPad. Mariner Software has decided to throw their hat in the ring as well and develop iPad-optimized versions of most of their Macintosh software, starting with Mariner Calc.

Mariner Software has been developing Macintosh software for about 20 years, with most of it being created for the productivity, writing, and creative markets. These are just the kinds of apps that many future iPad owners are hoping for in order to make it more than just another mobile media consumption device, and Mariner Software is aiming to please.

The company is currently working on an iPad-optimized version of their spreadsheet software, Mariner Calc, which we have been told should be able to do about 75% of what the Mac OS X version is capable of doing. After Mariner Calc is finished and released, the company intends on bringing the rest of their writing software over to the iPad, such as Mariner Write and MacJournal. Mariner Software was unable to provide any more details, including a possible price or release date, but they were able to send us a concept screenshot of Mariner Calc for you to gawk at. The screenshot is relatively raw, so things may change by the time the app hits the App Store.

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Conde Nast plans to announce iPad versions of Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Glamour in an internal memorandum today, according to the New York Times.

GQ will have a tablet version of its April issue ready. Vanity Fair and Wired will follow with their June issues, and The New Yorker and Glamour will have issues in the summer

Conde Nast will use these publications to test pricing, advertising, and digitizing approaches. “We need to know a little bit more about what kind of a product we can make, how consumers will respond to it, what the distribution system will be,” said Thomas J. Wallace, editorial director of Condé Nast.

Wallace told the NY Times that these magazines were chosen for their range, “They are representative of the company, right? GQ is men. Glamour is women. Vanity Fair is a dual audience. The New Yorker is unique with its periodicity, and therefore it’s also more news- or text-heavy, and it’s a slightly older audience.”

Wired has been working with Adobe to create a tablet version of its magazine; however, Conde’s CEO Chuck Townsend tells MediaMemo that he can’t fully embrace this version unless Apple embraces Flash.

Conde will have “two parallel development tracks going until the relationship between Apple and Adobe is clear,” Townsend said.

Apparently the ability to export the Flash based application to IPA format doesn’t have him convinced. Perhaps Adobe should seek Apple’s approval for this capability rather then repeated bash the iPhone and iPad for not running Flash.

When asked if he would prefer the Wired model – with integrated videos, interactive ads etc – if Apple was OK with Flash, Townsend said, “the answer would be an easy yes.”

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Chances are this is more of Apples marketing machine creating some demand so that you all hit that ‘buy now’ button as soon as you can!

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