The features of the latest upgrade are as follows:

Need for Speed – Yes, the app lets you search for mail messages even in the event you are offline. This effectively means that you don’t require net connection every time to go through your elderly mails. Optimized view for images and file attachments providing faster browsing experience.
Organize – You can basically organize your messages using the full search, folders, clever folders, messages from the specified contacts.
View and Enjoy – You have the ability to view rich text and videos in full screen or you can also preview them from your inbox without even entering in to the message.
Interface – This is by far the best mail app from any provider in terms of the consistency of interface. Yes, you would not feel the difference when you are operating the app with the iPhone, it looks the same as your desktop version. The only difference is the screen size!
This Yahoo product is currently available as opt-in beta, but in the future there will be forced update to all users, says Yahoo. Moreover this app is available in 28 languages and 200 countries. While the earlier app did not support for this plenty of languages, this is something regional users will welcome.

The new Calendar includes redesigned views for day, week, & month, & a new list view showing your events. As it did with MobileMe Mail, Apple has also improved performance of the Calendar application.
Sharing calendars has also become simpler on MobileMe. Users can share a calendar with other MobileMe members & permit them to make changes to the shared calendars & then get notified when changes are made.
Event invitations can be sent by entering any e-mail address in to an event. That person will get an invitation & can reply by clicking the link. The event auto-updates with a list of your RSVPs.
Of coursework, Apple made MobileMe Calendar compatible with all of its devices, so it can be viewed & edited on a Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch, & iPad. Because MobileMe makes use of the CalDAV standard, calendars can be edited in Microsoft Outlook on a PC with the MobileMe Control Panel for Windows installed.
MobileMe Calendar beta requires iOS 4 on the iPhone or iPod Touch, iOS 3.2 on the iPad, Mac OS X Snow Leopard version 10.6.4, & MobileMe Control Panel version 1.6 on Windows.
MobileMe Calendar beta is designed to work with Safari 5, Firefox 3.6, & Net Explorer 8. You can request an invitation to the MobileMe Calendar beta on Apple’s Web-site.

Apple had five percent of the revenue from U.S. video game software sales in 2009. While 5 percent doesn’t sound like much, its a 500 percent jump when compared to the one percent the Cupertino, Calif. company held in 2008.

Such a jump in a relatively short period of time was deemed “significant” by Flurry Analytics, which released the figures. The numbers were even more stark when compared to the overall U.S. video game software industry, which slipped to $9.9 billion in 2009 versus $11 billion in 2008.

Peter Farango, Flurry’s vice president of marketing, said console games lost ground to portable devices, including the iPhone. But the good news for Apple doesn’t stop there.

If you exclude the big-three gaming consoles: the Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360, games sold in 2009 via iPhone’s App Store grew to 19 percent of the U.S. portable gaming market, up from 5 percent in 2008.

The rise of the iPhone and iPod touch in gaming meant the market share owned by Sony’s PSP line was cut in half, while Nintendo’s top-dog status fell from 75 percent down to 70 percent, according to Flurry. In late 2009, Nintendo announced corporate profits fell 52 percent, or a $702 million loss. Some reports suggested the increased competition by the iPhone and iPod touch was a factor in the lower profits.

Nintendo isn’t standing still amid this new threat. Earlier this week it introduced a 3D version of its popular Nintendo DS platform reportedly to be called Nintendo DS3.

Apple is also making more blatant efforts to capture the gaming sector. In 2009, Apple released new version of the iPod touch with beefier graphics capabilities. In November 2009, the Cupertino, Calif. company began a search for an AAA game developer. A month later began seeking a video game artist for the company’s iPhone Gaming Group.

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Apple said some of the workers were as young as 15.

The company reported 17 “core violations” of its policies, the most severe, across the 102 facilities and over 100,000 workers involved in the audit. In addition to underage employment, Apple discovered cases of involuntary labor, falsification of documents, threats to worker safety, intimidation, and even abuse. Any facility that has a core violation is put under higher scrutiny and subject to a re-audit at a later date.

In a move to create more global transparency, Apple has been conducting these types of audits and making their findings public since 2006. This is to “make sure they comply with Apple’s strict standards,” said Apple spokesperson Steve Dowling.