It looks as though we will be seeing a new feature soon in iOS called Find My Friends, an extension to Find my iPhone that could be similar to services such as Google Latitude.

A reference to the name was found in the iOS 4.3 beta for developers and it appears to be linked to MobileMe accounts. If it is similar to Latitude, it would allows you to track your friends via their iPhone’s GPS (Naturally you would have to agree to broadcast your position so as to protect your privacy).

It seems as if location based services have been booming as of late but do you want people knowing where you are at any given time or is this another intrusive step forward in the mobile world? We want to know if you would use this service when/if it goes live.

[ MacRumors ]

aTV Flash for Apple TV (2010) is here, bringing with it the ability to view HTML5 content through a custom browser, view the weather, RSS feeds, and adds last.fm access. aTV Flash also supports a pethora of video formats as well, including – .m4v, .mp4, .mov for video, HE-AAC, AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV for audio.

As of now, there is one down side – you’ll need to be running iOS 4.0 on your Apple TV in order for aTV Flash to work. The developers say a version that will work on 4.1 is coming soon though. Using aTV Flash will not interfere with any regular features of AppleTV. aTV Flash also boasts simple installs and easy upgrades.

When you pre-order aTV Flash for $19.95, you’ll gain instant access to the beta version.

Any TiPb users out there plan to pick this up and try it out? If so, what features are you most looking forward to using on your AppleTV?

[via MacStories, via FireCore]

Today Apple previewed over 100 new features for iPhone 3.0 — coming sometime this summer — along with over 1000 new API’s for developers, and enough new features to answer the fevered dreams of 17,000,000,000 fanboys.

We’ll be back with more feature-by-feature coverage in a bit, but here are the highlights.

New iPhone 3.0 Features

• System-wide Copy and Paste (text and photos)
• MMS for photos, vcards, audio
• SMS forwarding
• Landscape keyboard in major apps
• System-wide Spotlight Search
• App Store subscriptions (i.e. subscribe to magazine apps)
• In App purchases (i.e. buy a weapon in a FPS)
• Turn-by-Turn GPS Navigation in App Store (bring your own maps!)
• Push Notification Service for badges, alerts messages, sounds
• Peer-2-peer service using Bonjour and Bluetooth for interaction and data exchange
• Access to Dock port for Apps to work with accessories
• Voice memos
• Audio/Video tags
• Live streaming
• CalDAV Calendars
• Calendar subscriptions
• Improved Stocks widget, landscape mode for details
• Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP)
• YouTube Account login
• YouTube Subscriptions
• YouTube Ratings
• iTunes login
• iTunes account creation
• Encrypted profiles
• WiFi Auto Login
• Call log
• LDAP (directory services)
• Shake to shuffle music (like iPod nano)
• VPN on-demand
• EAP SIM
• Proxy Support
• OTA Profiles
• Revoke Certificates
• Exchange ActiveSync Policies
• Notes sync
• Media Scruber
• Parental controls for TV, Movies, Apps
• Languages: More languages, better keyboards
• Anti-Phishing in Safari

What Didn’t We Get? (Yet!)

• Push Gmail
• Mobile iChat
• Tasks and task sync
• Contact convergence (like Pre)
• Improved notification system (like Android and Pre)
• Background multitasking (like every other smartphone)
• Unified messengering app (like Pre)
• Unified inbox (like BlackBerry)
• Video recording
• Theming