Apple Announces March 7 iPad Event

Apple this morning issued invitations to a special event in San Francisco at which the next iteration of the iPad will debut.

And it will indeed be held the first week of March, as AllThingsD first reported: March 7, to be exact. The showcase will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Apple’s preferred location for big announcements like this. And judging from the art on the invitation, it is indeed the next iPad that will be the topic. We will, of course, be covering it live.

In a cheeky bit of timing, the Apple invitation went out just as Google Chairman Eric Schmidt was delivering his keynote at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.