The King of Twitter is now the King of Apple, as “Two and a Half Men” star Ashton Kutcher is attached to play Steve Jobs in the indie pic “Jobs,” which Joshua Michael Stern (“Swing Vote”) will direct from a script by Matt Whiteley.

The film will chronicle Steve Jobs from wayward hippie to co-founder of Apple, where he became one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of our time.

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Of course it remains to be seen just how well he can “act” Jobs, as Kutcher usually plays comedy related roles.

Word on the street is that Apple is gearing up for the next generation of Macbook Pros by ramping up production.  Digitimes reports that production will be sped up for the 15′ models in April, with the 13′ models following in June:

As Apple will start mass producing its 15-inch MacBook Pro in April, sources from the upstream supply chain have pointed out that the company’s orders for the 13.3-inch model are far higher than those of the 15-inch, indicating that Apple is more focused on the 13.3-inch notebook segment.

Catching up on Apple news here – the App Store has now reached over 25 BILLION downloads!  Folks, that is a whole LOT of  ’bidness.  Of course one lucky soul who ended up making the 25 billionth download is taking home a $10,000 App Store gift card (and, as well, that’s a whole ‘lotta apps for one individual!)  Apple’s app ecosystem has reached full mass – and it’s only going to accelerate more once Wednesday hits and the iPad 3 is released in all of it’s glory.  Stay tuned…..

A new photo of an iPad 3 logic board with an “A5X” chip (or system on a chip) has surfaced in a forum post on a chinese website.  If this picture turns out to be valid, that would indicate that previously beliefs that the iPad 3 would feature a new Apple A6 processor would be invalid.  The original iPad had an Apple A5 chip and the iPad 2 features an A5 chip, so this led to wide speculation that the iPad 3 would continue this progression and feature Apple’s new A6 chip architecture.  There are other notable features on this board, such as a pair of 16gb flash memory chips onboard as well.

Apple is widely expected to release the new iPad 3 on March 7th, 2012.  Consumers are looking forward to an 4G LTE version, high-resolution Retina display, and of course a quicker processor.

Macrumors has obtained an OEM version of the new iPad 3 Retina display.  While they had no way to power the display, they were able to get a close-up shot and confirm the new pixel density thus confirming the iPad 3 is indeed upon us and will feature the crisp Retina display.

MacRumors has now been able to obtain one of these iPad 3 displays and examine it under a microscope in an effort to determine whether it is indeed an ultra-high resolution Retina display. Physically, the purported iPad 3 display is the same size as the current iPad 1 and iPad 2 display at 9.7″ in diagonal, and looks quite similar to the naked eye.

However, when comparing the iPad 3 display to one from an iPad 2 under a microscope, the difference in resolutions becomes readily apparent, with the iPad 3 display’s pixels appearing to be one-quarter the size of those on the iPad 2.

Looks like we will get to see the real deal in just a few weeks time – stay tuned!