Apple updated MobileMe: iPhone can’t be stolen now

Apple has updated the data synchronization service for mobile devices MobileMe. The main innovation is the availability of thе application Find My iPhone for iPhones, Apple iPads and iPod touch players. It represents a port in the form of an individual client’s application of the service for finding stolen portable devices from Apple.

In other words, Find My iPhone is a branded ‘anti-stolen’ system – the user and the former owner of the device can see the interactive map where the position of the lost device is located with the help of GPS or antenna signals. He can not only apply to the police having provided them with the exact place where the device is but he can also send remotely the command for deleting all the data from the memory of the phone or he can display the message on the screen with the request to return the phone to its legal owner. The application itself is free, however, you’ll have to subscribe for MobileMe which costs $99 a month if you want to use it.

Earlier the information that Apple would annul the subscription fee for using MobileMe at the next update of the service appeared. However, it hasn’t happened. Probably this step will encourage iPhone apps developers to create cheaper applications for protecting personal data of the owners of Apple gadgets.
Apart from Find My iPhone, the update of the MobileMe service has touched its other components as well. In particular, the user’s web interface has been changed – the mail client has been adapted to wide screens (for iPhone 4), the possibility for creating and using the rules for sorting letters as well as the instrument panel for text formatting has been added.

Motorola will present a new Droid on June 23

Motorola will present its new smartphone Droid of the next generation on June 23, wrote Engadget.

The smartphone based on the Android OS will be announced a day before the official launch of iPhone 4 sales. At the same time it isn’t reported which smartphone will be advertised. At present it is known that Motorola is developing two new models – Droid 2 and Droid X.

The directors of Motorola and the mobile operator Verizon Wireless as well as one of Vice Presidents of Google Andy Rubin and the Head of Adobe Shantanu Narayen will take part in the press-conference.

Engadget also published a brief review of the smartphone Droid X. The smartphone will be equipped with a 4.4-inch screen and a resolution of 854×480 pixels. Droid X also has a 8- megapixel camera with the option of video recording with high definition in the 720p format. The given set of functions opens new possibilities for Android mobile app developers as the smartphone will work on the Android 2.1 OS.

The date of this smartphone coming into the market is not announced. At the same time the first model Droid Motorola was announced at the end of October 2009. On the territory of the USA this model came into the market in November.

Google accuses Apple of monopolizing the mobile advertising market

Recently Apple has changed the text of the agreement with the mobile application developers. In the new variant of the agreement, it is clearly stated that the company prohibits third party advertising agencies to collect the data about iPhone users through the applications created for this platform. Thus, de facto Apple bans third party advertising agencies from using contextual advertising as well as advertising which will one way or another react to users’ actions. However, such restrictions don’t apply to Apple itself.

The new rules will take effect from July 1, simultaneously with the launch of the new Apple mobile advertising platform — iAds. Google is sure that with such actions Apple simply cuts its way at the highly competitive advertising market.

The first version of the agreement with iPhone apps developers appeared in April. At that time it forbade transferring statistical data to ‘third party analytical companies’ which had helped in creating targeted advertisements. This step was accepted with dissatisfaction and led to the formal investigation from the side of the US Federal Trade Commission.

The updated version of the agreement differs by even harder limitations which, first of all, are directed to blocking large advertising network systems such as Google and Microsoft.

Android beats iPhone in China

According to the AdMob Company, working in the sphere of mobile advertisement, there are 10.7 mln iPhones and 8.7 mln devices based on Android in the USA. If other gadgets using iPhone OS are taken into account, the number of devices will increase up to 18.3 mln.

In some countries especially in Western Europe the Apple platform is still far ahead (and iPhone apps development is still in its prime), sometimes at the ration 10:1. China is the only country with the opposite situation.

Most devices working on iPhone OS are in North America (49%) and Western Europe (28%). Among countries the leaders are the USA (44%), Great Britain (9%), France (6%), Canada (5%) and Japan (4%).

What concerns ‘googlephones’, in April 75% of them were concentrated in North America, followed by Asia (12%) and Western Europe (11%).

It should be noted that AdMob counts only the devices connected to its advertising network. Apple states that it has sold 85 mln iPhone communicators and iPod touch players for the last three years and Google claims it activates one hundred thousand Android-based gadgets daily (and it provokes increase in the number of Android apps developers), but that’s quite difficult to find out how many phones are actually in use.

A month ago AdMob reported that for the first time the Android traffic of its network exceeded the traffic of iPhone devices in the USA.

Online games in your mobile device

If you consider yourself a fan of gambling and you like spending your free time in front of the monitor playing in online casinos, this news will be interesting: the world’s web developers of online casinos have adapted most popular games to mobile platforms, for example, poker for iPad.

Mobile gambling is a new trend in the sphere of gambling. For recent years it has become very popular among casino fans. The demand for mobile games has appeared due to the development of technologies and the appearance of new mobile devices in the market.

Now you don’t depend on your computer. You can play at any time if you have your iPhone or iPad with you. Whether you are in a traffic jam or going to work or simply want to relax a bit, now your favorite games are at hand.

In order to start playing poker or Blackjack at your mobile device, the only thing you have to do is to install a mobile application into your device.