MobileMe, Apple's subscription-based online storage suite, has officially closed its doors. Users who want an Apple-flavored cloud storage option will have to turn to iCloud now. Apple announced it ...
One of the few black marks on Apple's product track record is being retired tomorrow, but parts of it will live on. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote ...
The sun is setting on the MobileMe era. By the time Sunday rolls around—on June 30 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time to be precise—the cloud storage and syncing service that Apple debuted in 2008 will fade ...
Push messaging was brought into the mainstream by Research In Motion, which got started selling two way pagers. RIM gradually advanced its network with a bolt-on system that interfaces with corporate ...
People have found that after creating a MobileMe e-mail alias online they are not able to use it on their local machine, despite having the option available online. The issue seems to be common among ...
Apple updated a knowledge base article and noted that it basically rewrote MobileMe's underpinnings in a late September update. The article, which carries an Oct. 29 date, outlines the following: ...
The iPhone isn’t the only Apple product getting a July makeover. Apple is also revamping .Mac, its collection of Web-based tools. Starting next month, .Mac gets new applications, a new focus on ...
Ars has decided to the release the full email Steve Jobs sent to Apple employees declaring that “MobileMe was simply not up to Apple’s standards.” There’s actually not much you haven’t already read, ...
MobileMe has always seemed like a hard sell in the consumer market. For $99 a year, Apple‘s suite of Web-based services delivers…<drum roll>…e-mail! A calendar! Online apps and storage! Yep, stuff you ...
From e-mail outages to inadvertent credit-card charges, problems with online service MobileMe have been adding up to widespread criticism of Apple, not to mention embarrassment. "Life was a lot better ...
While the launch of MobileMe didn't go smoothly as planned, the service itself is brilliantly well designed, both usable and attractive (despite some remaining flaws), and demonstrates the real ...