Couple of days back, Bloomberg had reported that
, which could be priced at $200 without requiring a contract.
Wall Street Journal who have a good track record with Apple related news, seem to have just confirmed that Apple is indeed working on a smaller and cheaper
, which may be released this summer.
One of the people, who saw a prototype of the phone late last year, said the device is intended for sale alongside Apple ‘s existing line. The (more…)

Long time users of Apple ‘s MobileMe service will swear by its utility. However, a number of free and low cost alternatives have launched in recent times.
These services offer similar hosting and syncing features that have led to a lot of debate among Apple customers over MobileMe’s $99 annual fee and if that may be worth the price.
This debate has not been helped by an apparent deterioration of service levels in recent times. Long time users may (more…)

People speculated that Apple might be bringing some features of the paid MobileMe service to a new free MobileMe offering tied to the Apple ID. Some others opined that this was nothing but Apple trying to offer a consolidated login to allow MobileMe users to access features with their Apple IDs.
Almost two weeks later, Apple released
Folks at MacRumors have discovered code references in iOS 4.2 GM and
, which indicates that Apple might offer (more…)

You might remember that Apple had, quite surprisingly,
from the previous beta version of iOS 4.2. AirPlay allows users to stream videos from their
,
. This means that users will be able to stream videos from YouTube app wirelessly to Apple TV with a simple tap of a button. It looks like AirPlay features also works on Mobile Safari and several other third party applications.
Besides this, developers have also observed few more changes in iOS (more…)

According to the What’s new section, here is a list of some of the new features:
– Export presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT) format.
– Copy presentations between Keynote and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
– Support for audio in builds when importing Keynote '09 presentations.
– Ability to group and ungroup objects.
– Add animated builds to grouped objects.
– Lens Flare, Spin and Wipe build animations.
– Revolving (more…)

While this feature has existed for over a month now, a number of bloggers have now started wondering if this could be Cupertino's latest leap towards the launch of an
. In a recent article on
, blogger Brian Barrett writes:
“Well this was unexpected: Apple has quietly enabled its devices to stream music to iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches from online storage through iDisk. It's the very next-best thing to putting iTunes in the cloud.”
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Apple has updated MobileMe’sFind My iPhone service for iPhone OS 3.1 to include a feature appropriately named Remote Lock. The new feature provides another way to protect data on a lost or stolen iPhone . Remote Lock lets you add a passcode or change your existing one, locking your missing iPhone ‘s screen from afar. The new feature resolves some of the Find My iPhone ‘s previous shortcomings.

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Among the bevy of problems–some large, some small–reported by iPhone users following the release of iPhone OS 3.0 and the iPhone 3GS lurked a bug I encountered in Find My iPhone on Apple ‘s MobileMe service.

Find My iPhone remembers all your devices, including any old iPhones turned off or sold after you upgraded to the iPhone 3GS. Until now, there was no way to make Find My iPhone (more…)