Tag: MOBILEME

The Wall Street Journal has confirmed rumors that Apple is developing a new line of smaller and cheaper iPhones. Those trusty old "sources close to the development" tell the Journal that the new device will be about half the size of the iPhone 4, and will be sold to service providers at about half the price of existing iPhones. The new phone, which goes by the codename "N97," will apparently ...

When Curtis Codgill arrived at the Sacramento Airport to fly to Oregon, he came with his wife, his brand new son, and a brand new iPad. Only two of the three companions, however, actually boarded the plane with him. As the Sydney Morning Herald reports, Codgill had purchased his new iPad shortly after the birth of his son, but mysteriously misplaced it before getting on his flight. "Last time I ...

Share For iPhone users, the MobileMe 'Find My iPhone' service is kind of like a first-aid kit; we all like to have it around, but we'd never want to be in a situation where we'd actually have to use it. Yet, those are exactly the dire straits in which one Eric Boehs recently found himself after mysteriously misplacing both his iPhone and iPad. As Wired reports, the saga unfolded when Eric ...

We all actually expected MobileMe, Apple's $99 a year cloud services, to get an update at WWDC. Instead almost the entire event was focused on the iPhone 4 and the newly christened iOS. Then early on Friday, without much warning or fanfare, Apple gave the e-mail portion of the Web-based service a face-lift. The changes are nothing Earth-shattering. The interface is pretty, and has new compact ...

Update: Jobs just announced the iPhone 4. Everyone's expecting Steve Jobs to unveil a next-generation iPhone at today's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) but what other goodies might the sly Apple CEO reveal? Here's a brief look at some of the buzz surrounding the event. Although Gizmodo gave us a sneak peek of the new iPhone a few months ago, today we'll find out which features made the ...

A few days ago, we reported the story of a man who used Apple's MobileMe program, which allows users to sync several computers, to spy on a person using his stolen Macbook. Having stumbled upon that trespasser's online job application, the amateur sleuth, identified only as 'Jim,' was able to glean an IP address and other information, all of which he then sent to police. End of story, right? Not ...

Earlier, we reported the story of a robbery victim who used his stolen iPhone's GPS application to track down his purloined phone and, thus, the suspected thieves. In other crime-fighting Mac news, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) reports that an anonymous contributor dubbed 'Jim' has gotten a tip on the location of his stolen laptop -- thanks to Apple's MobileMe, a program that enables users ...

When Colorado resident Dustin Simantob and his dad returned to their car after a three-day river trip, they found the windows busted out and their belongings, including two iPhones, stolen. While they reported the crime to the Mesa County Sheriff's Department, the 15-year-old boy decided to do some detective work of his own. In an e-mailed account of his story, Simantob told Mashable that a new ...

Yesterday, Cnet and Macworld reported that a new phishing scam is targeting the users of the Apple service MobileMe, and is doing so under the guise of an official Apple e-mail. Explaining that the user's monthly MobileMe payment has failed to go through, the e-mail directs the recipient to follow a link, where he or she is then instructed to enter credit card information. Seeing as we offer ...

Frustrated by somewhat sluggish transfers from your otherwise spectacular Eye-Fi card? Fret not, as the company has just announced a forthcoming update at Photokina that will reportedly enable new and existing Eye-Fi owners to make "the upload of digital photos from camera to computer twice as fast." Also of note, as of October 5th, users can even add features that aren't already included on their ...

If you were having problems accessing your Gmail account yesterday afternoon, you weren't the only one. A glitch in Google's immensely popular online e-mail system kept most people out of their inboxes yesterday, a problem that was so widespread Google felt compelled to offer up a formal apology via its blog.The problem apparently was related to the contacts system portion of Gmail, which enables ...

Not that anyone could really dance around the facts of the matter at this point, but Ars Technica is reporting that in an e-mail to Apple employees sent yesterday, Steve is alleged to have said the following: "It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store. We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without ...

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/MobileMe_now_live_ready_for_you'; Hello MobileMe, goodbye .Mac (and good riddance). Apple's synchronization and Web application solution for your Macs, PCs, iPod touch or iPhone is now live. Push e-mail, push contacts, and push calendar and a new suite of Web applications are now yours for the taking. You know, after you hand over $99 for the first year ...

We thought a re-branding of .Mac at today's WWDC event was a pretty long shot, but color us surprised when MobileMe, the flashy new replacement for .Mac, was announced. MobileMe does many of the things that .Mac lets you do -- store photos, contacts, etc. in the "cloud" (on the Internet) -- yet MobileMe adds much more, including push e-mail and PC (Outlook) compatibility. Here are the ...