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Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital w…

If you’ve looked at this thing called the Internet at any time in the past couple of days, you’re probably aware that Apple is about…

During his keynote talk at Apple’s event in Cupertino this morning, Apple SVP of iOS software Scott Forstall unveiled a new feature that may sound familiar: ‘Find My Friends’, a map-based app that’ll let you see where your friends and family members are, provided they’ve opted into sharing their location with you.

Fire up the app and the location of each of these friends will be indicated by a purplish orb, which could come in handy if you’re trying to figure out how far someone has to go on their commute, or where they are at an amusement park.

Of course, the app sounds quite similar to Google’s Latitude, which has been doing the same thing since early 2009 (Latitude comes pre-installed alongside the Maps application on Android, though you have to opt into it). But Apple’s version includes some features that go a little further (and, once again, will compete with some existing startups).

Apple is entering the greeting card business with the announcement of Cards, a do-it-yourself application for creating, printing and sending gre…

While everyone’s likely tuning in to catch a glimpse of the new iPhone, Scott Forstall just taken the stage to talk about some of the cool new apps that Apple has rolling out shortly.

Spending on mobile ads is expected to reach $1.23 billion this year, according to a revised estimate from eMarketer, which represents a 65 percent increase from 2010. The estimate is slightly up from the $1.1 billion number eMarketer put out a year ago.

The estimates for future years out are also up. They are as follows:

Pretty much anyone — man, woman or child — has at some point received an email telling them they weren’t sufficiently endowe…