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Photos: Preparations for the iPad 2 Event on March 2nd

MacLife has managed to take these photos of the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, CA where Apple will hold an event to announce the second generation iPad. Apple used the same center last year with the first iPad announcement. Here some of these photos: The rest can be found on MacLife’s website: Gallery: Apple Decorates Yerba Buena Center A ...

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FaceTime for Mac Available in Mac App Store

Apple released the FaceTime app for Mac and it’s available in the Mac App Store. FaceTime requires that you log with your current Apple ID (App Store account). You can call any iPhone 4 using the person’s phone number and call any Mac or iPod touch 4 using the person’s email address. FaceTime for Mac supports high definition video on ...

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Apple Introduces New MacBook Pro Models with Thunderbolt and Quad Core

Apple has introduced new MacBook Pro notebooks today. The new models feature faster CPUs and graphic processors as well as support for Thunderbolt data transfer technology. Thunderbolt is developed by Intel under the name Light Peak. The connector used is mini Display Port so current monitor adapters will still work. Thunderbolt allows up to 10Gbps transfer speeds. We expect that ...

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iPad 2 Event Next Wednesday

Apple has sent invitations to members of the media to a special event most likely to announce the iPad 2. The event will be held March 2nd in San Francisco, CA at 9:00pm local Saudi time. The invitation had the following written on it: “Come see what 2011 will be the year of.” We will keep you up to the ...

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Mobily Reduces iPhone 4 Prices

Mobily has reduced the prices of the iPhone 4. These changes came after a week of the release of the Apple phone by Mobily’s competitor, STC. The new prices for iPhone 4 32GB Here are the old prices: The new prices for iPhone 4 16GB Here are the old prices: The new prices for iPhone 3GS 8GB Here are the ...

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Share Your Experience with STC’s iPhone 4

Saudi Telecom Company has started selling the iPhone 4 in Saudi Arabia and like we did with Mobily’s launch we provide this post to share your experiences with the launch. Make sure to share your experience, comments, photos in the comments. Here are some comments from the Arabic post: STC employee claims that the initial shipment was 19,000 iPhones Only ...

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STC Officially Listed on Apple’s Website

Apple has finally added STC as an official iPhone provider in addition to Mobily on Apple’s Where to Buy page on the official Apple Saudi Arabia website. However the Locating iPhone wireless carriers was not updated to include STC until now. STC has started selling the iPhone 4 officially in Saudi Arabia last Sunday. You can find the author of ...

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Saudi Telecom Company Relaunches iPhone App

Two days after the release of the iPhone 4 by STC, the company re-released their iPhone App for managing STC services. STC App was first launched in July only to get pulled off the App Store a few hours later. STC App offer many features including recommending which package to sign up with based on your usage: From the STC ...

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Apple Launches Subscription Service on the App Store

Apple has launched a digital subscription service for publishers to collect recurring payments on magazines, newspapers, music and video services. Subscriptions was first introduced with The Daily newspaper app. “All we require is that, if a publisher is making a subscription offer outside of the app, the same (or better) offer be made inside the app, so that customers can ...

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iPhone 4 to be Sold Officially from STC this Sunday

After 7 months of our confirmation and as we said yesterday, here is STC’s official announcement and pricing details for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS 8GB. STC will begin selling the iPhone in Saudi Arabia Sunday February 13th, 2011. [Via mdawood.] STC also sent an Arabic SMS to everyone who “registered” for the iPhone 4 saying that it’s available ...

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