text: Let the guessing games begin! Apple has something up its sleeve for Tuesday, and in its typical zeal for fanning the flames, it tells us that "Tomorrow is just another day. That you'll never forget."
  
  Monday, Apple put that headline on its website, along with the subhead, "Check back here for an exciting announcement from iTunes." Below it were images of clocks for California, New York, London and Tokyo set for 7 a.m. PT 10 a.m. ET, 3 p.m. London time and midnight in Japan.
  
  Tim Bajarin, an analyst with Creative Strategies, was expecting an iPad software update for November, which had been promised earlier in the year, to bring multi-tasking and folders to the tablet computer.
  
  "But this sounds music-related," he says. Could it be the long-rumored approval by the surviving members of the Beatles to allow its catalog to be sold in iTunes, after all these years?
  
  "That's a strong possibility," he says. "That would be a very big deal."
  
  Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, thinks Apple is updating its Mobile Me subscription program to include back-up of your iTunes music collection. Apple bought the now-defunct music service LaLa at the end of 2009, and ever since, it was expected to follow up with a way to back up your music collection online and access it from any of your Apple mobile devices. What held it up was finishing up a new data center in North Carolina, says Munster, who believes the center is now ready for operation.
  
  "People get nervous all the time about their music purchases, and having them backed up," he says. MobileMe has not been a wild success--Munster thinks the service, which charges $99 yearly, has about 3-5% of the 150 million iTunes audience--"there's a lot of room to grow," he says.
  
  We've reached out to other analysts to get their take on what tomorrow's announcement might be.
  
  Readers, do you have any predictions?
  
  UPDATE:The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, says Apple will announce an alliance with the Beatles Tuesday. However, this isn't the first time an iTunes/Beatles deal has been predicted in the press, only to fizzle. So stay tuned.
  
  UPDATE: The New York Times reports a Beatles deal for iTunes as well.
summary: Stay tuned: Big announcement from Apple Tuesday - USATODAY.com