Apple Inc. has released the mobile operating system, which allows users to find and secure the equipment missing. Upgrade, called IOS 4.2, that the properties were available for the iPhone and iPod Touch iPad as multitasking applications and folders.

Apple said 4.2 IOS iPad iPad Touch iPhone and offers over 100 new features of the devices popular in Cupertino, California-based company. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the updated software, which can be downloaded for free at the online iTunes Store, making the product completely new iPad.

” iPad IOS 4.2 defines a goal that other tablets to pursue, but very little, if appropriate, will never be able to hit, “Jobs said in a statement.Apple has received a jump on its competitors to launch iPad in April, but some competitors have begun or are planning to launch its own touch-screen tablet PC, including Samsung of South Korea and Canada Research In Motion, maker of the Blackberry.

Many of the features of Ios 4.2 were already in use the latest versions of the iPhone and iPod Touch, but not the iPad. Apple iPad said users can now switch between applications quickly and handle more than one at a time, playing the music, like Pandora, for example, when using another program. Applications can now be organized into folders and drag-and-drop.

The new software includes a feature to print wirelessly from Apple’s mobile device via Wi-Fi network. When iPad multi-tasking function allows users to switch between applications without disable them. “IOS 4.2 iPad makes it an entirely new product, just in time for Christmas,” Jobs said today statement.

The iPad, which went on sale in April, accounted for about 14 percent of Apple’s revenue last quarter. The device established a market for tablet computers that blend the capabilities of a smartphone and notebook computer, leading rivals such as Samsung Electronics Co and Research In Motion Ltd to introduce competing models.

Lost and found:

Search my Apple iPhone functionality is available for free download from the implementation of the company store. Help people to find your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPads on a map and play a sound when you lose. Users can remotely lock or wipe all data on lost devices, said Apple.

The device, which works with the latest equipment, previously available as part of a $ -year subscription to MobileMe from Apple 99. The new operating system available today, you can download iTunes from Apple. The update also adds the IPAD Game Center, a feature that is available on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Allows players after scores of league tables or challenge other owners of mobile devices from Apple.