MobileMe
Apple hands out free 60 Day Subscriptions to MobileMe Customers
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.
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Posted on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:38:27 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Apple self-reflects on MobileMe Mess
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.
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Posted on Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
MobileMe Email Issue resolved according to Apple
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).
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Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:04:49 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
MobileMe Email Issue slowly, very slowly gets resolved
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.
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Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:42:35 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
1% of MobileMe members cannot access MobileMe Mail
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.
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Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:48:37 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Apple apologizes with free 30-day MobileMe Extension
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.
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Posted on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:51:54 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
MobileMe 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.
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Posted on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
MobileMe Launch Issues keeps Service Unavailable [Update]
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.
Update:
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.
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Posted on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:30:26 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Apple to launch MobileMe on July 9th
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.
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Posted on Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:32:46 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
I4U Weekly Top 10: iPhone 3G, MobileMe, Snow Leopard
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.
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Posted on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
MobileMe available for Pre-order
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.
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Posted on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
MobileMe Guided Tour
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.
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Posted on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Apple MobileMe Details
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.
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Posted on Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:18:28 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
COMDEX: PacketVideo Mobilemedia
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
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