Apple Helps Make the Leap From One Screen to Another.

Added information regarding Airplay's audio capabilities.As you may have learned already from my colleague Nick Bilton's post, Apple on Monday released an upgrade to its iOS operating system that brings a number of iPhone functions (apps folders, multitasking, apps running in the background, for example) to the iPad. But one of the most intriguing changes included in the upgrade, iOS 4.2, is something Apple is calling AirPlay. Simply put, AirPlay is a feature that allows wireless streaming of audio and video content from one device to another. This is a way for Apple to address a continuing issue surrounding digital media today: how to get things loaded on one device onto another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]