Guess who made the … Total Telecom World Communications’ Users’ Choice shortlist:

AT&T – Latest press release: AT&T Welcomes WP7-based Samsung Focus
BT – Latest press release: British Telecom Brings WiFi to the Tube
NTT Com – NTT Com to Launch IP Service for Global Internet Dialing
Orange Business Services – Orange Business Services Chooses GenBand to Deliver Rich SIP Product Capabilities
Telefonica – Telefonica Brazil Selects Allot to Deliver Network Management Services
Verizon Business – Verizon Business Helps Burberry Deliver Global Fashion Experience

The World Comunications Awards Gala is scheduled November 24, 2010 at the London Hilton Hotel on Park Lane. Sign up now at http://www.terrapinn.com/2010/wca/data/wca_2010_booking_form.pdf.

And don’t forget to vote for the 2010 Mashables Awards. We ask that you consider voting for the CEO of Techistan Rehan Allahwala who also is the idea man and owner behind the services you see listed at http://www.supertec.com/sitemap/ and more besides. His DIDXchange made the 2006 Total Telecom World Communications Award List and his Health Management System SMS made the 2010 Mobile Monday Peer Awards Finalists.

Or consider voting Bryan Hertz of VoxOx at http://www.mashable.com/awards/votes?c=42&v=Bryan+Hertz,+CEO+of+Telcentris. Let us know about your award-winning solutions, softwares, companies, people and such in comment to this article!

At least eight people got iPads from Apple pre-launch, three usual suspects plus some new faces. Their approaches are different, but the take-home remains the same: It’s good. Here’s the easiest way to digest all the iPad reviews at once:

The following is a list of the original pieces from which the above quotes were pulled. They are all special in their own ways, and I encourage you to read them all. If you’re in a hurry, just skip to Pogue’s, Baig’s and Xeni’s.

The usual suspects (minus our friend Steven Levy at Wired, who Apple didn’t give one to):

Walt Mossberg – Wall Street Journal/AllThingsD

David Pogue – The New York Times

Ed Baig – USA Today

The left fielders:

Xeni Jardin – Boing Boing and Boing Boing TV

Tim Gideon – PC Magazine

Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus – Houston Chronicle

There are a couple more pieces written by people who got iPads that aren’t included for reasons stated below, but they’re decent, so check them out:

Omar Wasow – The Root – This is more of an essay than a review.
Andy Ihnatko – Chicago Sun-Times – He actually has five different separately headlined pieces, but they’re not linked together, so while a lot of ground is covered, it’s impossible to read as a coherent review.

Source:http://gizmodo.com/5507037/ipad-mega-meta-review-works-great-no-surprises