Apple today emailed users of the MobileMe service, once again apologising for problems that have troubled it from its launch and offering a further 60 day extension on top of the one month extension already given. "We have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but we still have many more to make." the email read. "To recognize our users' patience, we are giving every MobileMe subscriber as of today a free 60 day extension. This is in addition to the one month extension most subscribers have already received." More details can be found online here.

In what is becoming both an amusing and at the same time frustrating practice, Apple have released a new update for the iPhone with the description of the update as "Bug Fixes". This is the same explanation and lack of detail that was given when the 2.0.1 update was released. Connect your phone to your computer and open iTunes. Using the "Check for Update" button you will find the download available once you have performed a backup.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Steve Jobs confirmed the existence of the ability by Apple to remotely deactivate malicious software programs on the iPhone. Speaking to the WSJ, he commented "Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull," he says. At the same time, Mr Jobs confirmed that Apple had sold $1 million worth of applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch per day in the first month of sales.

It's rare for Apple to so publicly face issues such as those experienced since the launch of MobileMe. Whilst drawing criticism for the quality of the service since its launch last Friday, it has also be criticised as users realise that the concept of "push" technologies for MobileMe aren't what computer users are used to. The concept of push technology is effectively like text messaging...the moment you get sent a message it is "pushed" out to you. The same applies for email technologies such those on exchange servers, however it has become clear that only certain aspects of MobileMe are truly push-enabled and immediate. Today Apple has sent out a email to MobileMe customers apologising, explaining how push works for MobileMe and extending all accounts by an extra 30 days by way of an apology.