According to Barnes & Noble official site B&N eReader for iPad will be released around the time of expected iPad’s availability. We’re not sure if Apple will ever accept the app because of competition with Apple’s own on-device bookstore.

“We’ve been getting lots of questions from customers, so we wanted to confirm that we will soon be adding a new B&N eReader for iPad – continuing to fulfill our promise of providing consumers any book, any time, any where,” says official B&N blog.

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Here’s an educational iPhone app to develop thinking skills of your kids! Find cute animal friends and watch them do silly tricks in this addictive seek and find game. Adorable characters hide in Jungle, Circus and Ocean. Each character has its own real instrument sound, including cello, saxophone, bongos, rattles, guitar, piano, castanets, trumpet and more.

The game is beautifully designed! Definitely check it out. Great start, Awesome Giant!

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If you’re a fan of Shazam, you have to try this app. With SoundHound, you can name a song playing from a speaker in as little as four seconds. It even works on your unlabeled iPod songs, and is the only app in the world that can identify songs you sing or hum.

The New York Times Knowledge Network announced the release of “Learning English With The New York Times”, a new app for the iPhone and iPod Touch designed for intermediate to advanced English learners to improve reading and listening skills, and to learn new vocabulary.

“The New York Times newspaper has always been an integral part of helping individuals learn English,” said Felice Nudelman, executive director, education, The New York Times Company. “The iPhone app is an ideal educational tool for English learners and an innovative way to reach this new audience.”

The application is available for a one-time cost of $5.99 and comes with 12 lesson plans based on famous or historical articles from The New York Times. Each lesson plan includes: Vocabulary Flashcards; Article Reading Task; Audio for Articles and Key Words (for pronunciation development); Comprehension Task; Three Vocabulary Review Tasks; and A World Bank Dictionary (with translation in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Spanish).

Angry Birds is the best catapult game that I have ever played! With over 100 challenging levels, this game will take you days and weeks to complete! Using an enormous slingshot, launch a variety of birds into structures containing the ugly pigs! Some birds can dive through wood and glass, others can drop explosive eggs, while others can split into three speeding small birds… just to describe a few! The pigs also come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and thus, are not all easy to destroy, adding even more fun and complexity to this wonderful game! At only $0.99, Angry Birds is definitely the best game I have ever played on my iTouch. An A+ without a doubt!

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Do you like puzzle games?  Do you like to play with a Rubik’s Cube?  If you like games that challenge your powers of logic and speed, Cogitate is perfect for you!  In Cogitate, the vertical and horizontal axes of each column and row can be rearranged and it is your job to reconfigure the mess!  Each level opens with a fairly simple image… and then you need to put the image back together!  As the levels continue, the time restraint becomes more intense and the complexity of the puzzles increase!

This game is very difficult!  If you love puzzle games, or would like to learn to love a puzzle game, then Cogitate is for you… and at only $1.99, Cogitate will keep your mind racing for hours!

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Try different styles for yours and your friends’ hair before risking it at the salon. The app is also great for all sorts of pranks and jokes.