Topic: Apple MobileMe

iPhone 3G Shipping July 11th; MobileMe Service Debuts

The so-called genius phone just got an IQ upgrade. Few of the technorati were surprised on Monday when Apple [NASDAQ: AAPL] unveiled the second iteration of the iPhone, which sports a precious few, but significant, ...READ»

Palm Pre Vs iPhone 3G S: Feature by Feature Comparison

We tagged the Palm Pre as a hot-ticket item before its launch, and so it was, even with many a rumor about the new iPhone. But now that iPhone 3G S has rocketed off Apple's design launchpad, does Palm's effort stand a chance of ...READ»

Meet mIQ: BestBuy's Free Clone of Apple's Mobile Me

Apple's MobileMe is variously reviled and applauded in different corners of the Net, but it's hard to argue that it provides a pretty comprehensive service. So comprehensive that Best Buy has just cloned it--and made it available for ...READ»

Apple exchanges .Mac for MobileMe

Another product lost in the shadows of the 3G iPhone announcement on June 9 was MobileMe, a revamp of .Mac service. One of Apple’s most genius and useful facets is that it makes the process of syncing different products (iMacs, ...READ»

A Hater's Guide to the New iPhone

Maybe you just bought a Palm Pre, or you're a BlackBerry diehard. Now you see the new iPhone 3G S, and you're listening, incredulous, as all your iPhone 3G-owning friends are counting down the days until they can pay $200 or $300 ...READ»

Design Roundtable: What Will Cell Phones Look Like 10 Years From Now?

We're back with the final installation of this week's cell phone roundtable. We choose the topic, put forth a few questions to our panel, and bring the most provocative answers back to you. This week, with more details about the ...READ»

• Design Roundtable: How Have Cell Phones Changed Our Behavior?
• Design Roundtable: How Can Cell Phones Improve the World?
• Design Roundtable: Why Do Cell Phones Go Out of Fashion so Quickly?

SkyBox: Microsoft's Answer to MobileMe?

Windows Mobile is the oft-forgotten prince of Smartphoneland, with millions of smartphone handsets carrying at least one version of the OS, sometimes behind the scenes. But to counter the rising threat from the iPhone and Android, it ...READ»

iPhone Price Matched by Sprint's Samsung Instinct

When rumors of the Samsung Instinct began to surface, it was pretty widely accepted that the device would run consumers $299, when purchased from Sprint and tied to that provider's "Everything" service plan. Now that the iPhone 3G ...READ»

Apple Snow Leopard To Ship August 28

After a period of downtime early Monday morning, Apple has reinstated their online store with one seminal addition: the ability to preorder Mac OS X, dubbed Snow Leopard, for shipping on August 28. Unlike most major revisions to the ...READ»

Steve Job Announces Apple iPhone 3G and New Applications

At Apple's annual World Wide Developer's Conference, Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone 3G. It features 3G data speed, GPS support, a better battery, and some design improvements. I would point to the fact the 8 gb model will only ...READ»

Is Apple Shooting for the Cloud?

More information is trickling out about Apple's new data center in North Carolina--it seems it's going to be big. Amongst the biggest in the World, in fact. Are the folks at Cupertino shooting Apple into the cloud computing ...READ»

iPhone Price Matched by Sprint's Samsung Instinct

When rumors of the Samsung [SEO: 005930] Instinct began to surface, it was pretty widely accepted that the device would run consumers $299, when purchased from Sprint [NYSE: S] and tied to that provider's "Everything" ...READ»

Ten Mac Apps That Make Windows Users Drool

// Used to be that Windows users could admit the Mac was easy to use--they just complained there wasn't any software for the platform. Apple knew their weakness, too, so they endeavored to turn their developer tools into the envy ...READ»

MacWorld 2009 Rumor Round-Up

With the doors of the Moscone center in San Francisco soon to burst open upon a Jobs-less Macworld 2009, the Internets are predictably alive with rumors--some more believable, some less believable, some just stuffed with desperate ...READ»

Opera 10 Is Going to Piss Off Some Very Important People

On the spectrum of menacing devices, the lowly server falls somewhere between a toaster and... an evil toaster. Which is to say that most people don't think the "clouds" that store so much of their email and files as being ...READ»

Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Digital Music From Mobile Pandora, Sony's iTunes Rival

Digital music turned the recording industry upside down several times already, and given the amazing rate of change it's going to keep evolving dramatically. A couple of news items today point to how this evolution will mean we ...READ»

Seven Tiny Tech Stories That Will Be Huge

Progress isn't all breakout products and scientific coups. In fact, some of the most salient indicators of the direction of technology come in re-directions of products and services we use every day. Here are seven subtle changes to ...READ»

Microsoft's Cloud-Based Skybox Gets Early Showing, New Name

We talked about Microsoft's SkyBox cloud-based data service recently, and now it looks like the wraps have begun to come off SkyBox, and an initial website has gone live. But, strangely, it isn't quite what it seemed like it would ...READ»

Personal Accountability and Corporate Accountability Create Business Success

What do Apple, Inc., Nordstrom and Whole Foods all have in common?  All three companies are accountable for their actions, choices and results.  Accountability for these three organizations is a cornerstone of their operations.  ...READ»

The iPhone's Cool, but Android 2.0's Convenience May Blow It Away

Everyone loves the iPhone--today. It does two things extremely well: calling and email. To date, no other device can top it. But by this time next year, that may not be enough. And Android will be waiting in the wings. Google and ...READ»

IBM Fighting Google on Business Email

IBM's trying a simple tactic to outwit Google's business software plans by selling its professional package for a third less in price. For fewer dollars you also get a less capable service, but IBM's confident that many customers will ...READ»

More Bad News For iPhone 3G

First it was problems with MobileMe, and then iPhone 3G chipsets. Now Apple [NASDAQ:AAPL] has a pair of new problems on its plate: a potentially egregious security loophole and a possible class action suit. First, the security ...READ»

Why Won't the Apple Tablet Rumors Go Away?

Digitimes reported today that LCD manufacturer Wintek will produce displays for a new Apple [AAPL] netbook to be released this summer. We've been hearing about the non-existant Apple netbook for months. Why won't these rumors die? ...READ»

IBM Follows Apple's Model to Help Small Business' Tech Needs

IBM recently announced an interesting new one-stop-shop system designed to simplify the complex task of organizing all the technology a small business needs. In fact, IBM's kind of copying Apple's model.The basic idea of the Smart ...READ»

Could Apple Be Interested in Twitter for Its Halo Effect?

Apple and Twitter sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I... well, you know the rest of that rhyme. There's a fascinating little rumor that recently surfaced on the Internet: Apple is interested in acquiring the hot little social ...READ»