“Lost iPhone, lost iPhone, where for art thou?”
At Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Fran, Apple’s Scott Forstall demoed a new iPhone app that can help locate your lost or stolen iPhone.
This service is available to all MobileMe subscribers. If you lose your iPhone, you can log into MobileMe and it will show you on a map exactly where your iPhone is.
You can also send a message to your lost iPhone – and it will sound an alert tone, even if it is set to silent. This is helpful to provide contact details for anyone finding your iPhone.
This is great news for anyone always misplacing their belongings… but hopefully, even better as a deterrent to would-be iPhone thieves.
Should your iPhone be stolen, you risk identify theft. The “Find my iPhone” app can even send a command to your iPhone to wipe the private data on there. But don’t worry if you find it around the house, your contacts, mail etc can later be restored from iTunes backup.
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For those not a subscriber to MobileMe, a ‘Find my iPhone’ app is also available on the iPhone Apps store. Download Find my iPhone 
Features are a little different and MobileMe subscribers should stick with the newer version.
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iTunes Apps Store milestones, news and changes
iTunes App Store says “thanks a billion”
Earlier this week, the Apple iTunes Apps store reached (and has now surpassed) a record one billion downloads since being launched last year.
That’s a huge milestone reached for the Apps store – and iPhone (and iPod touch) developers and users. It would be interesting to see stats on how much money it’s made Apple and app developers.
And the winner is…
But how about the lad who downloaded the one billionth app? He walks away with a tidy $10,000 iTunes credit, an iPod touch, Time Capsure AND MacBook Pro. And the downloaded app was a free one. Nice!
Changes to Apps Store regulations
(via TUAW)
Developers be warned! With the Beta release of iPhone OS 3.0, Apple has also announced that any new iPhone or iPod touch submissions to the Apps store must be compatible with iPhone OS 3.0:
“Beginning today, all submissions to the App Store will be reviewed on the latest beta of iPhone OS 3.0. If your app submission is not compatible with iPhone OS 3.0, it will not be approved.”
Existing applications will also have to be compatible – or risk removal.
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