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China's Quality Certification Center has approved iPad model number A1416 -- that of the new iPad -- for sale in that country. China is an incredibly important market for Apple, with the company posting huge growth in the region in recent years. The approval, which was actually issued last week, comes as Apple CEO Tim Cook appeared in China for meetings with Apple...

Our sister-site TouchArcade points out this Japanese iPhone-powered robot dog. The "dog" is an app that is installed on the iPhone or iPod Touch and then acts as the face of the virtual pet. The dog was originally reported by Japanese blog Mac Otakara. The smart pet uses the front facing camera on the iOS device to recognize and react to certain gestures, and there will be over 100 different...

Tech in Asia points to a new report from Chinese site Sina.com claiming that Apple has reached a deal with Baidu to add the Chinese search engine as an option on its iOS browser as soon as next month.Apparently, Baidu’s cloud and mobile chief Li Mingyuan hinted at this during the launch of Baidu’s cloud storage service last week, saying that the company already had a comprehensive cooperation ...

Just days after the launch of Angry Birds Space, Rovio today announced via Twitter that the application has already seen ten million downloads. The game is topping Apple's paid and top-grossing charts for the App Store in countries around the world.10 million Angry Birds Space downloads in less than 3 days! Thanks to our fans, stay tuned for more!Even on the Mac platform, Angry Birds Space ranks ...

A tipster sends us this tale of a trip to the Fifth Avenue Apple Store last night. Went to the Fifth Ave store near midnight today, and saw that Apple was setting up a separate line just to handle the volume of iPad returns from Chinese resellers. The manager kept the separate line to ensure that regular customer's experience wasn't affected. Some people were returning up to 30. A number of...

It appears that some iPad Smart Covers aren't working properly with the new iPad, including older Apple Smart Covers. The new iPad has a slight change in how its magnets work. Apple has reversed the polarity of one set of magnets related to the sleep/wake sensor that turns the iPad off when the Smart Cover is closed. As a result, older Smart Covers, that weren't designed with this change in mind, ...

Angry Birds Space, the latest installment of the best selling mobile game of all time, has finally arrived. Rovio, the developer behind the series, partnered with NASA, the U.S. space agency, to promote the release, including a plug filmed by an Angry Bird-toting astronaut on the International Space Station. Angry Birds Space delivers the biggest change yet in the series' well-known "launch...

iDownloadblog reveals some new iOS 5.1 strings that include references to "4G".“4G_ON_CALL_CANCEL” = “Cancel”; “4G_ON_CALL_OK_DISABLE” = “Disable”; “4G_ON_CALL_OK_ENABLE” = “Enable”; “4G_ON_CALL_WARNING_DISABLE” = “Disabling 4G will end your phone call. Are you sure you want to disable 4G?”; “4G_ON_CALL_WARNING_ENABLE” = “Enabling 4G will end your phone...

The folks at iPatch iPods have created another hardware mod to follow up on their Backlit Apple logo from September. The original mod was revealed late last year, and they've since added a new feature which they describe as a "headphone jack torch". This video walks through the original glowing Apple mod and also the new headphone jack one: The...

Hipstamatic and Instagram -- Apple's iPhone Apps of the Year in 2010 and 2011 -- will be announcing a partnership that allows photos taken in Hipstamatic to be ported to Instagram's social network with one click. The partnership was reported by Fast Company. It represents the first time Instagram has opened up this platform API to third parties, and marks a move toward letting photos freely...

Google has updated its Google Earth iOS app with support for KML files to add custom maps and overlays to the earth. KML files exist for all sorts of different types of data, including real-time earthquake maps and airline flight tracking, or educational information about volcanos. One of the most powerful features of Google Earth is the ability to view custom maps or overlays, which are also ...

Propellerhead software announced yesterday that they will be releasing a Reason inspired iOS app called Figure. Reason is a popular music software program for Mac and Windows. Figure is described as a mobile tool for inspiration and short bursts of...

Some owners of the new iPad are experiencing unexpectedly poor Wi-Fi reception according to a thread on the Apple Support forums. The thread, noticed by AppleInsider, began on Saturday, March 17, the day after the new iPad first went on sale. I am in a hotel with my laptop and new ipad3. The laptop wifi reception is as strong as it gets, but the iPad only registers a weak signal. Anyone else...

The Wall Street Journal notes that some early 3rd Generation iPad owners are finding it a bit too easy to burn through their monthly bandwidth allotments when on the faster LTE network. The new iPad offers a much faster wireless data network called LTE. The speed of LTE can be up to 10 times faster than 3G networks. As a result, some have found they've burned through entire monthly...

Chipworks, which provided some details on the new iPad during its teardown at the end of last week, has taken some ">extremely detailed die photos of the A5X processor in the new iPad. One of the biggest changes in the new A5X is the sheer size of the die. The A5X is 310% larger than the A4, the processor in the iPhone 4 and the original iPad. Each of the four GPU cores take up a huge chunk of ...

This case is a bit of a odd product, but might appeal to iPhone owners looking for something a little more unique. The $22 Mug is a rubber case that adds a coffee mug-esque handle to the back of the iPhone. The most useful feature of the case is the ability to use the handle as a built-in stand, as shown in the video below. Strangely, the Mug completely blocks the rear camera, but offers...

As noted by Slash Gear, iOS jailbreak specialist MuscleNerd has apparently already jailbroken the new iPad that launched today, Tweeting a couple of screenshots showing the jailbroken device with Cydia installed. MuscleNerd notes that this is simply the first step in the process of releasing a public tool for jailbreaking the new device, but it seems that progress should come relatively...

One of the next-generation apps demonstrated during Apple's iPad 3 introduction has just gone live on the App Store. Namco Bandai's Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy is an iOS-exclusive 3D dogfighting sim that uses multi-touch and the gyroscopes within the iPad and iPhone to full effect, along with taking full advantage of the new iPad's Retina display. FORGET EVERYTHING YOU’VE PLAYED! THIS IS...