Apple Details iCloud Pricing, Opens Beta Portal
Apple has quietly refreshed its iCloud information portal with pricing information for the forthcoming cloud storage service, with three options outside of the complimentary 5GB of storage for each iOS device owner. As previously stated during the initial announcement, the 5GB of complimentary storage does not count for music, apps, and books as well as […]
Nokia Makes it Official, Will Disband Ovi by July
Nokia has finally provided a timetable for the long-assumed withdrawal of the Ovi brand from all Nokia products and services. Ovi was born out of Nokia’s effort to create a series of Web 2.0 products and services, to answer rivals such as Apple’s App Store and MobileMe. However, the message was mixed, with products often […]
Apple Releases MobileMe iDisk Application for iPhone and iPod touch
Apple has released the long awaited MobileMe iDisk access application for the iPhone and iPod Touch running OS 3.0. The application allows MobileMe subscribers to access iDisk shares of up to 20MB in size, login, filesharing via email links, password protection of files and time limits for file downloads with the only limitation being the […]
iTunes 8.0 Late-Breaking Notes
Readers, as well as our own testing, have confirmed that iTunes 8 fixes the lock-out issue that prevented many users from access their iTunes Store purchased content. This unaccepable issue blocked access to iTunes Store content, repeatedly demanding the user enter their password. As we previously reported, workaround simply could not fix the problem, isolated […]
MobileMe Up, iTunes Down… As In, Locking Users Out
The latest iPhone update finally makes MobileMe work. But, many are still having issues with iTunes. With iPhone 2.0.2, many have reported in (and we’ve confirmed as well) that MobileMe finally works as promised with iPhone and iPod touch. Contact, calendar, and mail data does download properly whenever you open any of these apps. And, […]
Editorial: Five Lessons Learned from iDay 2.0
Sure, you know that for a few hours iTunes couldn’t activate iPhone 3G, the day it came out. Big deal. The lessons that Apple really needs to learn have taken longer to uncover, but we’ll run them down.
Apple: MobileMe Transition Caused 10% Message Loss
In a letter published on Apple’s web site on Friday, Apple apologized again for the outages sparked by the transition to MobileMe services. The letter, curiously unsigned, was written at the personal request of CEO Steve Jobs. In the letter, it outlines the problems Apple faced with MobileMe; namely the poor timing of rolling out […]
iTunes Enables MobileMe on PC, MobileMe Online
Apple’s “Exchange for the rest of us”, MobileMe, is now up and running. We just successfully made a MobileMe account and connected it. The setup process did release one interesting tidbit; Windows integration is all handled by iTunes 7.7. From iDisk to live synchronization, iTunes facilitates Mobile Me on your PC. The settings are contained […]