Apple’s MobileMe service has long be subject to the rumors that it would be going free, and they rumblings have started up again.The iLounge blog recently cited a trusted person at a major educational institution who said that the school could not purchase any new MobileMe subscriptions. Apple says that they are in the process of revamping it, but are asking that people try the free 60 day trial instead of purchasing a subscription. They are saying that the service may be “quite different”.

MobileMe currently costs $99 a year, and was originally released as a service called .Mac, which replaced the old iTools service.  The MobileMe service syncs bookmarks, contact information, and calendar information to a cloud. All of that information can then be accessed on any Mac powered device including iOS devices.

Some recent moves have also pointed to MobileMe becoming a completely free service, including the allowing of remotely tracking and locking down iOS devices as well as the ability to have an @me.com email address. Both of these features had previously been only available to paying customers, but were then turned into free of charge services.

This seems to leave recent paying subscribers in limbo, as they paid the full $99, and might now be transitioned into a free service. The iLounge source claims that Apple will still support the old version, but it would seem senseless as the new version would be fully free. So, unless the version has significantly less features than the current MobileMe, there may be a lot of disgruntled Apple fanboys (and girls).

A more conceivable guess would be that Apple’s new version of MobileMe would still have a pay for premium plan that would offer more or higher end features, or both.  Higher amounts of storage and more advanced features will mostly likely stay on premium plans for a while until they are not so fresh or coveted anymore, and then go free.

In a huge announcement on Sunday, March 20th, AT&T released that they had acquired T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom. The German company will be receiving $25 billion in cash and $14 billion in AT&T stock, giving Deutsche Telekom an 8% stake in the company.

T-Mobile USA customers currently total up to 33 million, and will be added to AT&T’s humongous user base to create a large mobile phone company servicing about 129 million people just in the United States. Their numbers now tower over Verizon’s 94 million subscribers.

This deal will worry antitrust regulators for reasons other than the subscriber count, however. With AT&T and T-Mobile USA being the only two GSM phone carriers in the United States, there will only be one once the deal is completed. This gives AT&T a complete monopoly on the phone standard, and is definitely something to worry about in terms of pricing.

T-Mobile customers wanting 4G connections will definitely benefit from the deal, though, as their carrier only runs on HSPA+, and has no plans on upgrading to real 4G technology. HSPA+ generally measures up to 4G speeds, but lacks the infrastructure to handle a full network load like 4G technology offers. These customers will not have to worry any longer.

This deal announcement follows right on the heels of the rumors stating that Sprint Nextel was getting ready to make an offer for the company to Deutsche Telekom, who had been reportedly unsatisfied with T-Mobile USA’s recent performance. They were reportedly interested in public offers that would result in the company spinning off, but obviously have taken a liking to this private offer.

This deal has been agreed upon by both company’s boards, but has to go through the regulatory approval process still, where it might get held up due to the monopolization of the GSM carrying business, as discussed earlier.

Samsung is one of the world-famous manufacturing companies in the mobile industry. Hence, the trio of Samsung Galaxy Ace, Fit and Pop is recognized as the new technology in the realm of smartphones. Apart from the fancy titles, these Android 2.2 powered smartphones also showcase countless superior multimedia features like Active Sync, Social Hub, TouchWiz 3.0 and Quicktype by SWYPE.

If you want a competent mobile internet browser or cameraphone with comprehensive compatibility in a multimedia phone and stylish body with an aesthetic appeal, then the Samsung Galaxy Smartphhones can be a good option for you to choose from. Thus, in the Galaxy Ace, you will find elegant designed model that runs on 800 MHz processor whereby you get tremendous web browsing speed. Its striking features are 3.5” HVGA TFT screen along with a flash camera of 5 MP.

Coming to the second in this line-up, Samsung Galaxy Fit is a 3.31” device with QVGA TFT display along with 600 MHz processor and 1350 mAh battery. The attributes like HSDPA 7 and Wi-Fi give high and smooth connectivity. It exhibits ThinkFree Office, SWYPE text input, Social Hub, Active Synchronization among others and in-built email system. Besides these, it offers a 5 MP camera, 3D accelerator, hybrid widgets with 32 GB expandable memory.

The final device of this trio is Samsung Galaxy Pop, which has made a craze among the youngsters due to its aesthetic appeal, entertaining features of music player, FM radio, an ear jack of 3.5 mm and many more. It bears 3.14” QVGA 16 M TFT display coupled with Touchwiz 3.0 User Interface. The enhanced 3-G connectivity offering fast downloading speed with access to Samsung apps have earned a fame and name to this smartphone in the Android market. The camera of 3 MP ensures qualitative snapshots and 1200 mAh powered battery promises a longer talk time.

Marriage of commercial interests of Nokia and Microsoft has been talk of the town for a fairly long period now. Nokia  joined forces with Microsoft in an attempt to regain ground lost to the iPhone and Android-based devices. Everyone is waiting for the outcome of this grand union—Windows 7 based Nokia phone. Now the million dollar question in this billion dollar deal is—What is the USP of this new Nokia phone that will lure customers?

Well the company claims that if you enjoy gaming than this phone is a wonder machine. Export gaming is gaining popularity very fast and this phone will bridge the gap between demand and supply. This phone will help establish direct interaction between connect and phone. This means one can play a game when somebody is interacting with the TV using connect, and someone else is interacting with them on phone. So export gaming is a big plus in this phone.Another feature that will set it apart from other windows phone is Internet explorer 9 browser. This browser is dubbed as next generation of what the Internet is going to be around. The Nokia Windows Phone 7 will feature Ovi Maps as its core service for mapping.The new phone will be high on multitasking. Somewhat critical missing features such as copy-paste will also be added to the platform. The platform will also support CDMA, so Microsoft can expand into more markets. This Nokia Windows Phone 7 will also boast of MS Office and Xbox Live.

Apart from the regular features ,  Nokia and Windows claim that the most important thing about the phone is that it is going to be wrapped up in a package which is much easy to use than the most smart phones.  Microsoft Windows Phone 7 will help you have a supreme business application by simplifying your daily work life, increasing your productivity by enabling you to work faster and more reliably.

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