Re: SMS Broadcasting
Mike,
The iPad can't natively do SMS, but you can do it with third party apps like textPlus. You'll be given a special textPlus phone number, but your message will say it is from you ... then you can just add people from your contacts to the SMS.
There's a few other suggestions I haven't tried in the comments here:
http://www.theipadguide.com/faq/can-i-send-sms-text-messages-using-ipad

