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iDisk for the iPhone now available on MobileMe

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iDisk for the iPhone now available on MobileMe Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review The Apple MobileMe service has gained some value since yesterday with the launch of the MobileMe iDisk for the iPhone.
The new MobileMe iDisk app brings the convenience of iDisk to your iPhone and iPod touch.
You can directly view files including iWork and Microsoft Office documents, PDFs, and QuickTime movies. Read more

Posted on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:47:10 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple gives MobileMe a Service Update

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Apple gives MobileMe a Service Update Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Apple updated the web services of its MobileMe platform introducing several minor improvements.
In MobileMe Mail, you can now see your unread message count in your Inbox and in each of your Mail folders, and forwarding or replying to HTML (rich text) messages now maintains the messages' original formatting.

iPhone 3GS users can publish videos to a Gallery album and an option to merge existing contacts and calendars on first sync from iPhone/iPod touch got added amongst several other things. Read more

Posted on Thu, 2 Jul 2009 02:30:49 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Can MobileMe find your lost iPhone?

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Can MobileMe find your lost iPhone? Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Besides USB Tethering yet another unannounced feature of the new iPhone 3.0 firmware has been discovered.

BGR found an option in the MobileMe settings called "Find my iPhone". Read more

Posted on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple Mac Users get Chrome and MobileMe Filesharing

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Apple Mac Users get Chrome and MobileMe Filesharing Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review The Google Chrome browser is getting closer to being released on Apple OS X. Google has published the first screenshots of Chrome on a Mac.
The release is supposedly still a while away, but at least it seems to be running in the Google Lab. More details on MacRumors. Read more

Posted on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Microsoft SkyBox rumored to compete with Apple MobileMe

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Microsoft SkyBox rumored to compete with Apple MobileMe Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Microsoft is rumored to launch three services for Windows based mobile phones at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona. NeoWin reports that Microsoft SkyBox, SkyLine, and SkyMarket are the current codenames of the cloud services for WinMo phones.
Microsoft SkyBox is offering Windows Mobile users what iPhone users can have with MobileMe plus automatic backup of their phones. Read more

Posted on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:50:28 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple hands out free 60 Day Subscriptions to MobileMe Customers

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Apple hands out free 60 Day Subscriptions to MobileMe Customers Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Apple is giving every current MobileMe subscriber a free 60 day extension for their subscription. This is in addition to the 30 day extension most subscribers have already received.
Apple says they have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but there are still many more to make, and Apple appreciates the subscribers' patience while they turn things around.

Read more

Posted on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:38:27 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple self-reflects on MobileMe Mess

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Apple self-reflects on MobileMe Mess Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Arstechnica got their hands on an internal Apple email Steve Jobs has sent out yesterday. Steve is quoted saying that "MobileMe was launched too early and not up to Apple's standards".
Apple has restructured the MobileMe team that now reports to Eddy Cue. Apple was actually under no pressure to release MobileMe at the same time as the rolled out the iPhone 3G, iPhone Software Update 2.0, and iTunes App Store. Read more

Posted on Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MobileMe Email Issue resolved according to Apple

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MobileMe Email Issue resolved according to Apple Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Apple informs on their MobileMe Status blog that the email issue is finally resolved. As reported 1% of MobileMe users where without email for several days. The service was gradually restored over the unbelievable long period of 11 days.

The whole MobileMe ordeal was very bad for Apple. It triggered all kinds of bad press including headlines like "Has Apple bitten off more than it can chew?" (The Guardian), "Apple Slammed for Ongoing MobileMe Crisis" (Wired News), "Apple’s MobileMess" (NY Times). Read more

Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:04:49 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MobileMe Email Issue slowly, very slowly gets resolved

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MobileMe Email Issue slowly, very slowly gets resolved Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review On Thursday we reported that 1% of Apple MobileMe users have been without email service since July 18th. It's now ten days later and the issue is still not completely resolved.

On Friday Steve Jobs got on to the matter and the MobileMe staff is now posting status updates on the Apple MobileMe site. Read more

Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:42:35 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

1% of MobileMe members cannot access MobileMe Mail

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1% of MobileMe members cannot access MobileMe Mail Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Apple's MobileMe communication service still has some serious issues. For several days now 1% of MobileMe members cannot access MobileMe Mail.

Apple's support says that on July 18th a serious issue happened with one of Apple's MobileMe mail servers.
This issue is currently affecting approximately 1% of MobileMe members. Affected members are unable to send or receive email at www.me.com or access email using any email client software such as Mail on a Mac or Microsoft Outlook on a PC. Read more

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:48:37 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple apologizes with free 30-day MobileMe Extension

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Apple apologizes with free 30-day MobileMe Extension Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Apple apologizes to MobileMe and .Mac users for the launch issues the company had with MobileMe last week.

Apple published a FAQ about the free 30-day MobileMe Extension that explains for instance who can get it. The final details on how to get the free month service are not published yet. Read more

Posted on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:51:54 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MobileMe Review

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MobileMe Review Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review TUAW published a review of the new mobile communication service from Apple: MobileMe. Find out if the service is worth $99 per year.

Quote from the review: "MobileMe is a vast improvement to its predecessor, but there's still plenty of room to grow. Apple's challenge will be to bring more functionality for its desktop apps to the browser, while at the same time looking to build on the successes of web app pioneers Google and Flickr. Read more

Posted on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MobileMe Launch Issues keeps Service Unavailable [Update]

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MobileMe Launch Issues keeps Service Unavailable [Update] Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Apple seems to have issues launching MobileMe on me.com. There service was up and down during today, but is down right now at the time of writing this story.

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Apple posted a brief statement that the MobileMe transition is underway but is taking longer than expected. On the DotMac support page you can see a services status of each MobileMe service.

Some smart guy already setup a site called IsMobileMeUp.com (Via Digg) that checks if the service is up and running.
Read more

Posted on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:30:26 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple to launch MobileMe on July 9th

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Apple to launch MobileMe on July 9th Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Apple informed .Mac users that they will launch the new MobileMe service on July 9th 6pm an 12am PCT.

.Mac services will be unavailable during the upgrade. You can still send and receive emails via desktop applications. Read more

Posted on Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:32:46 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

I4U Weekly Top 10: iPhone 3G, MobileMe, Snow Leopard

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I4U Weekly Top 10: iPhone 3G, MobileMe, Snow Leopard Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review It is almost here. The Apple iPhone 3G is going on sale on July 11th in 22 markets world-wide. It will be much cheaper ($199) and is even free in the UK.
Apple also announced a new online service dubbed MobileMe at the WWDC 08.
The new iPhone SDK is the enabler of tons of new applications for the iPhone that will be available through the new iTunes App Store. Navigation and location based services could be a major focus for iPhone OS X applications.
Apple also previewed the next update of OS X dubbed Snow Leopard.
Read more

Posted on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MobileMe available for Pre-order

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MobileMe available for Pre-order Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Apple announced the new online service MobileMe at the WWDC 08 on Monday. The .Mac replacing service is already available for pre-order on the Apple Store.

MobileMe is launching in July. The yearly subscription price is $99. If you buy any new Mac you get $30 off from your first year MobileMe subscription. Read more

Posted on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MobileMe Guided Tour

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MobileMe Guided Tour Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Apple marketing needs to do a good job to explain the value of the new MobileMe service, because Apple wants at least $99 per year from you for it.

The Apple site is featuring more new content on MobileMe than for the iPhone 3G. That is very understandable as the iPhone 3G will sell itself for the $199, but MobileMe needs to get rid of the not so successful .Mac history. Read more

Posted on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple MobileMe Details

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Apple MobileMe Details Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Apple announced today the new internet service MobileMe.

MobileMe delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars from the MobileMe service in the "cloud" to native applications on iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs.

MobileMe also provides a suite of elegant, ad-free web applications that deliver a desktop-like experience through any modern browser. Read more

Posted on Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:18:28 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

COMDEX: PacketVideo Mobilemedia

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COMDEX: PacketVideo Mobilemedia Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review PacketVideo mobilemedia technology displayed on the Nokia 3650 and 7650 cell phones.
PacketVideo mobilemedia technology enables multimedia services over today's 2.5G or 3G networks to mobile devices like Nokia's Series 60. In combination with a fully 3GPP MPEG-4 compliant server platform (e.g., pv3 mobilemedia system), PacketVideo's mobilemedia technology offers service providers an excellent opportunity to enable innovative, revenue-driving multimedia content services like news, sports, music videos, and movie trailers; and view live cameras for business, travel, entertainment, security, and child or elderly monitoring.

PacketVideo's pvAuthor(tm) 3 and pvPlayer(tm) 3 enables content to be captured by the mobile phone, viewed via streaming, and shared via messaging and email.

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Posted on Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:37:15 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr