Over the last few weeks we’ve heard rumours that Apple would be dropping the price of MobileMe from $99 (for a 1 year subscription) to $0. We expected this to be announced during an upcoming Apple media event. The folks atiLoungehave just confirmed the rumours are true, stating that the newest version of MobileMe is slated to launch next month and they say it will be completely free. iLounge also claims that MobileMe will be getting some major changes....

Update: at D9 today, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop took to the stage and made it clear that there areabsolutely no discussions between the two companies regarding a Nokia buyout. Reports are emerging that Microsoft may be set to acquire Nokia’s phone business for $19bn. Nokia comprisesthreemain business groups: Mobile Phones, Smart Devices and Markets. And it’s the Mobile Phones business only that would be acquired by Microsoft. We reported a couple of weeks back that such a dealwasn’tlikely, but according to the same industry insider we rebutted a couple of weeks back, Eldar Murtazin has put an actual figure on the deal this time....

There have beenrumorsthat King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has decided to make an offer of $150 billion to buy out Facebook in an effort to lessen the political impact caused by the social network. As you may well expect, the rumors report are false. Apparently, mainstream media inEgyptis reporting the story as real news according to atweetby Wael Ghonim, the Google exec who became known due to hisabductionandreleasein Egypt. First of all, Dawn Wires, the source of the rumors notes at the end of the piece that “Sunday Humor articles at Dawnwires....

I have to admit it – I lovedwebOS. What I hated was Palm’s ludicrous failure in marketing an otherwise brilliant OS. Since the HP purchase I had pretty much given up hope of webOS amounting to anything in the mobile market share, but some news today could have things looking up. SlashGearreportsthat HP has been in active licensing talks concerning webOS. In short, that means that we could see the super-slick operating system coming to devices other than theHP-manufactured TouchPad....

No matter what Apple has planned for the next iteration of its popular iPhone smartphone, analysts and consumers are focusing on whether the device will support wireless technology NFC. Different outlets have their own “internal” sources suggesting Apple had decided against incorporating the technology into their new smartphone, particularlyThe Independentwhich reported the company would “concerned by the lack of a clear standard across the industry.” With Google committed to supporting NFC in its Android operating system and RIM having declared that a large number of its future smartphones would support the contactless technology, Apple’s apparent decision not to support it came as a surprise....