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Like power houses like apple, or san disk, they order their parts from japan. 40% of all flash memory is coming from japan. so this is likely to have a domino effect around the world. >> that means there are likely to be shipping delays as well? >> that's correct. there's going to be some shipping delays, we've got some major launches around this time of year as well, the ipad ii just debuted in the u.s. on friday. as well as around the world on the 25th of march. we've got two weeks today, the nintendo 3-ds, the portable gaming system, with a 3-d display that doesn't require glasses. presumab...

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There's a new tablet available to rival the first ipad. our technology analyst, syndicated writer, marc saltzman is here with us. so we're talking about ipad, competing with itself with a new one. and yet, there's another? >> that's right. we're talk about the ipad ii in a moment, which will be unveiled on wednesday. but, yes, we have the first, i would consider the first real contender to the ipad. and that is the motorola xoom. this is what it looks like here, and that's xoom-x-o-o-m, it's a 10.1-inch screen, instead of the ipad's 9.1-inch screen and the first to run on google's honeycomb op...

Videos. but one exciting feature that i'm really hoping for, yet unconfirmed, is something called nfcs, or near-field communication. in a nutshell, a new wireless technology that lets you swipe your tablet for mobile payments. you swipe it at a terminal or let's say you're leaving a movie theater, you see a poster for an upcoming film, you take your ipad ii or iphone 5 and you swipe the poster it will automatically download the trailer to your tablet or smartphone. so we're hoping -- >> we're have about 30 seconds left. with that new ipad or maybe the old one that you have, you will be able to...

Let me show you how fast it is to load your music. it's like less than a millisecond. watch this, i just tapped it and you're good to go. look at that that's unheard of in a tablet, including the ipad, that exists now. we'll see about the ipad ii, in a couple of days. but really fast performance. a dual-core processor. running at one gigahertz. this is the first one. if you like to tinker and you like android, which is more of an open operating system, this is the first to impress a lot of critics out there. it is a little bit pricey, however. it's $600 on a two-year verizon term. because it d...