What we know about the Apple Tablet so far.

Nothing.

Brought to you by the same guys who trolled by traffic who claimed Apple was buying Twitter for $700M.

“We expect the development of such an OS to be underway currently, but its complexity, along with our conversations with a key company in the mobile space, leads us to believe it will not launch until CY10,” Munster said (meaning 2010) in a note released to clients Thursday.

Munster wants attention.

In 10 years your TV will get 500,000 channels

In 10 Years, Your TV Will Only Get 20 Channels.

That’s bass-ackwards thinking.

Munster reads tea leaves and has dreams of Apple tablets

All this speculation is coming from raw speculation and loosely based on Cook/Jobs’s statements that they have interesting ideas in this space. That’s it. None of this is rooted on any factual information:

Apple will launch a $700 touchscreen tablet with a new operating system and optimized apps in 2010, new research claims.

Apple’s response to the fast-growing netbook market will a touchscreen tablet like an outsized iPod touch. It will have a touchscreen measuring 7- and 10-inches; will cost between $500 to $700; and may have built-in 3G wireless, claims Wall Street analyst Gene Munster of investment bank Piper Jaffrey.

Is there anything that E. Texas courts won’t find for the plaintiffs of patent lawsuits?

What a true monkey court: 

A Texas judge said XML tagging features in Microsoft Word infringed on a patent from Torotno-based company i4i.