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Daily Deals: $1,125 MacBook Pro, App Store Price Drops, Soloar Cell Phone Charger

Today, we check out a new bevy of MacBook Pros, including a 13-inch, 2.4GHz unit for $1,125. We'll also take a look at the latest batch of App Store price drops, including "Cartoon Rescue," a game for the iPhone and iPod touch. We wrap up our top trio of deals with a portable solar cell [...:]

Review: Rally Up is the Coolest Social Networking App for iPad

Rally Up, the newish location based social networking app, released an update for iPad Thursday that immediately puts the upstart application ahead of the game for people who want to keep track of and interact with their friends on the iPad.
Taking full advantage of the iPad's increased real estate, Rally Up's unique map-based canvas gives [...:]

The iPad: So Good, You Can Run a Country on it

A lot of bytes and ink have been spent on whether the iPad is good for anything but games or gently ushering your computer-phobic granny into the digital age.
Proof the device is good enough for real business, Norway's prime minister Jens Stoltenberg is reportedly running his country from an iPad while stuck at the airport [...:]

Jobs' Email Confirms May Ship Date for 3G iPad

The 3G version of the iPad will be released internationally in May, according to emails purported to come from Steve Jobs, CEO of the Cupertino, Calif. company.
In response to one developer's email about whether both U.S. and International 3G iPads would be delayed until the end of April, Jobs succinctly answered "yes." In another email, [...:]

Israel Bans iPad Imports

Israel has banned all iPad imports — yes, that means even bringing one on business or vacation — over concerns that higher-powered wireless receivers and transmitters in the device may disrupt national networks.
The iPad will be device non grata in Israel until authorities certify that the computers comply with local standards. About 10 unlucky iPad [...:]

Apple Mulling Online Store with Social Networking

Can online stores become more friendly, more like brick-and-mortar retailers that take personal note of customers? That's the goal of a new Apple patent application aiming to blend Internet sales and social networking.
The patent, filed in mid-December of 2009 and revealed this week, titled "Enhancing Online Social Atmosphere," describes online shopping as frequently "sterile [...:]

Problem Of iPad Printing Has Been Solved [Pic Of The Day]

"We (are) working on integrating this technology into our latest apps," says the Form Group.

Report: Next iPhone Coming to Canada in June

Signs increasingly point to June as the timeframe Apple will announce its new iPhone. A Canadian mobile phone company announced Thursday it will receive Apple's fourth-generation handset this summer. Wednesday, a report suggested the new iPhone would arrive around June 22, to coincide with the annual WWDC.
Along with news SaskTel's one million users will have [...:]

$2 Joypad App Turns Your iPhone Into A Wireless Video Game Controller

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bvdYhlbjRc
Utterly fantastic. Joypad is an iPhone app that operates as a virtual, touch-controlled gaming pad for emulators on your Mac. All you do is run a free helper program under OS X, launch the iPhone app and you're ready to crush some Koopas. It seems to work pretty well, and at $2, is cheaper than [...:]

Intel: Apple-Inspired Light Peak Standard Will Replace USB 3.0 In Only A Few Years

This week's MacBook Pros were pretty much cutting-edge all over, but they were missing one major upgrade: USB 3.0 ports. After all, the transition is already under way, and the newest version of USB can move over 5GBps, over ten times faster than USB 2.0 and about six and a half times faster than Firewire [...:]