by wildcherry on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 | News, Tech/Gadget

Apple will be announcing their new tablet device during Apple’s “Special Event” this Wednesday, January 27. That speculation is finally getting backed up by some relatively “hard” evidence.

Web analytics firm, Flurry, has released some data based on activity it has seen coming out of Apple’s Cupertino headquarters that indicates increased activity on tablet-based applications. Use cases for this rumored tablet have covered everything from the publishing industry as a rival to Amazon’s Kindle to a competitor to Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP).

Traditionally, tablet PCs have been considered to have a more industrial application for things like inventory management, purchase orders and data entry. However, according to the data reported by Flurry, the largest category of applications it is seeing for the Apple Tablet is games.

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