Apple's MobileMe Now Live and Ready to Sync Your Files
P.S. Things are loading slowly at the moment as the service comes up.
Update: As noted in the comments, the site is now down for most people.
[Thanks, Tim]
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P.S. Things are loading slowly at the moment as the service comes up.
Update: As noted in the comments, the site is now down for most people.
[Thanks, Tim]
Apple Replaces .Mac with MobileMe
by Terrence O'Brien, posted Jun 9th 2008 at 6:31PM
Improved compatibility: MobileMe will let you keep your iPod Touch, iPhone, PC and Mac (if you really must own all four) synchronized.
Sync all your devices and accounts: Apple is touting MobileMe as Exchange (Microsoft's ubiquitous, but mostly business-oriented, e-mail and calendaring server platform) for the rest of us, and includes push e-mail, push contacts, and push calendar, which automatically "push" any changes or messages to all your devices in real time for near instant updates (like BlackBerry).
Store images, music, and more: MobileMe also offers (at least) 20 gigabytes of online storage for any type of file you can imagine and for photo galleries.
All of these features are accessible online via a slick suite of Web applications, and they sync with with desktop apps, such as Mail.app and iCal. .Mac users will automatically be upgraded to MobileMe when it launches in early July alongside the iPhone 2.0 software update. Unfortunately, the service will start at $99 a year, which is still a little pricey for our blood.
Death to .Mac! Long live MobileMe! [Sources: Apple and Engadget]
Rumor Mill: What Apple Might Announce on Monday
by Terrence O'Brien, posted Jun 8th 2008 at 2:04PM
3G iPhone
This one is sort of a no-brainer. We know the release of this faster, upgraded iPhone is right around the corner -- the only question left is how soon can we get our grubby mitts on it. Rumors have circulated that it will be available worldwide on day one, but we wouldn't count on that. The FCC and other regulatory bodies have yet to see the new phone (if they had, we would know about it), so we figure you probably won't be able to purchase one for about a month, but we do think they're coming sooner rather than later.
iTunes App Store
When Apple announced the iPhone SDK, it also announced it would provide a central market place for the purchase of applications for your iPhone (games, instant-messaging software, etc). The App Store icon is in place, developers have started creating products -- all that is missing is the actual store itself. Don't be surprised when it goes live Monday afternoon.
OS X 10.5.4
Didn't Apple just release an update to its OS X operating system? Sure, but the secretive company wouldn't want to let any potential details about its new 3G iPhone slip with something as innocuous as small operating system update. So expect yet another round of bug fixes and drivers for those shiny new iPhones.
.Mac relaunch
This one is a bit more of a long shot. The .Mac service has been floudering for years. Apple has added new funtionality and kept it useful, but for the features the price is simply too high, and the inteface a bit dated. The rumor mill is suggesting that the .Mac will get rebranded and relaunched with the help of the other tech company du jour - Google.
New iMacs? New iPhone@home Tablet?
A German website claims to have "found" an outline of Steve Jobs' World Wide Developers' Conference speech that will take place later today (1pm Eastern). This is obviously all speculation and rumor but here go the highlights:- New iMacs - Brushed metal, LED backlight, Santa Rosa.
- .mac now free with purchase of Mac computers.
- "Oh, and one more thing..." iPhone@home.
Remember, these are just rumors and the iPhone@home sounds suspiciously useless for an Apple product.
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