As we are on the eve of Apple’s iPad event, which will undoubtedly involve some sort of new iPad, maybe an updated Apple TV, and a few unexpected surprises, I thought I would take a moment to throw out my list of predictions for your reading pleasure. Most of these are a compliation of rumors I’ve heard over the last few months from other sites, but I’m not looking at evidence of a screen found at a factory or a shell found somewhere else. This is pure speculation in its most fun form…

Although there was plenty of speculation, we finally can say that the next iPad will arrive in a week from tomorrow. Apple has sent out invitations to the usual suspects in the press for an event and it also sounds pretty cookie-cutter for an Apple event: 10AM Pacific, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco…

Although the deadline was supposed to be next week, Apple posted a notice on its developer site that it was moving the date for OS X apps purchased through the Mac App Store to be sandboxed to June 1. Essentially, this would make OS X apps behave like their iOS cousins—they cannot interact with your computer outside of their specific confines.

Well, here’s something we didn’t expect to see on a Thursday morning in February—Apple has shown off the first bits of what will become the next Mac OS X, Mountain Lion, due late this summer. Mountain Lion aims to bring even more iOS features to the Mac, starting with a public beta of Messages…

After the ongoing concern after Path uploaded user contact data, Apple has issued a statement to AllThingsD that an update will require users to explicitly give access to the data found in the Contacts app…

Well, it’s a bit unsurprising that this day would come, but it looks like there’s more iOS devices running around on the Internet than Macs. Obviously, the numbers are actual devices in use and not that Blue Dalmatian iMac G3 sitting in your closet. According to CNet, Chitika, a web advertising company, conducted a study across its online advertising network…