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Apple: MobileMe mail will still be available without iCloud

Posted May 19, 2012 - 7:50 am

At the end of June, MobileMe floats away to the great cloud-service graveyard in the sky, replaced by iCloud. But not every MobileMe customer can use iCloud just yet--specifically, those who chose to stick with Snow Leopard, rather than upgrade to Lion.
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iCloud storage upgrade extended for MobileMe users

Posted May 10, 2012 - 7:50 am

MobileMe users are getting three extra months of free iCloud storage upgrades as they make the transition to the newer service. In its FAQ explaining the transition, Apple quietly extended the deadline to September 30. The change was first reported by Japanese blog Macotakara.
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No, Apple isn't going all Big Brother on us

Posted July 8, 2011 - 12:12 pm

Apple is forced to deny that its MobileMe webmail app has been filtering emails based on political content.
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Apple confirms iWeb hosting, iDisk to end in 2012

Posted June 27, 2011 - 10:22 am

iWeb publishing, MobileMe Gallery, and iDisk will all disappear as the company sunsets its current online service in favor of iCloud, according to a new MobileMe transition guide Apple published on Friday.
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iCloud: What's in, what's out for MobileMe users

Posted June 27, 2011 - 10:07 am

Apple said it would pull MobileMe's plug in 2012, months after it is to be replaced by iCloud. We answer some questions about what parts would shift to iCloud and what would be ditched.
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Microsoft blames Apple for Outlook 2011 sync snafu

Posted April 6, 2011 - 3:43 pm

Microsoft today blamed Apple for changes that will prevent users of Office for Mac 2011 from synchronizing their Outlook calendars with Apple's MobileMe service.
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MobileMe revamp: 4 questions

Posted March 28, 2011 - 12:22 pm

Apple's MobileMe cloud storage service has never been so popular, and the reasons for its newfound regard are fitting. The latest comes from The Music Void, saying that "informed sources" say that MobileMe's new price tag will be $20 per year, an 80 percent decrease from its current price -- and a significant deviation from the original rumors of a 100 percent price drop.
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Apple yanks MobileMe storage service from retail

Posted February 24, 2011 - 9:31 pm

Apple today pulled the retail version of its MobileMe sync and storage service from its online store, and dropped the service from the list of optional factory-installed software for its Macs.
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MobileMe tracking fails to save iPhone, iPad from destruction

Posted June 22, 2010 - 8:05 pm

Eric Boehs believed that he had accidentally thrown away his iPhone and iPad. Alas, that's not exactly what happened.
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Apple updates Leopard, speeds up MobileMe sync

Posted December 16, 2008 - 10:22 am

Apple boosted the sync performance of its MobileMe online service today, months after it rolled out the service to so much criticism that it felt obligated to extend users' subscription.
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MobileMe stumbles again, goes dark for nearly 7 hours

Posted November 5, 2008 - 4:56 pm

Even though Apple Inc. recently upgraded the back-end infrastructure of its problem-plagued MobileMe, the online service was offline for nearly six hours Monday.
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Apple's MobileMe lacks key security feature

Posted August 20, 2008 - 10:58 pm

Users of Apple's MobileMe have already discovered that the US$99-per-year service is sometimes slow and unreliable, and they're now talking about another shortcoming that was intentional.
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Apple's MobileMe mail, Google's Gmail go dark

Posted August 12, 2008 - 9:23 am

Apple's MobileMe and Google's Gmail online e-mail services suffered hours-long outages Monday, leaving millions of users unable to access their accounts.
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Jobs shakes up Apple management over MobileMe debacle

Posted August 6, 2008 - 4:06 pm

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs has given MobileMe to the executive who heads iTunes, part of a shake-up over the sync service's public problems since its launch last month, according to a memo sent to company employees earlier this week.
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Jobs: MobileMe "not up to Apple's standards"

Posted August 5, 2008 - 3:58 pm

Apple CEO Steve Jobs conceded in an e-mail to Apple employees that the company had made numerous mistakes during the launch of its MobileMe Internet service, saying that the service "was simply not up to Apple's standards" and that it "clearly needed more time and testing."
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Apple admits new MobileMe problem

Posted July 29, 2008 - 1:49 pm

Although Apple Inc. has restored full e-mail service to about 40% of the subscribers who have been locked out of their accounts for more than a week, the company today acknowledged a new problem with the sync service.
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Apple restores partial access to MobileMe e-mail

Posted July 27, 2008 - 3:12 pm

Apple Inc. late Friday announced that it had restored partial access to blacked-out MobileMe e-mail accounts, but acknowledged that some messages sent to those accounts had been lost during the week-long outage.
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MobileMe fracas continues

Posted July 23, 2008 - 4:04 pm

Apple's MobileMe migration continues to be troublesome, with the company last night confirming at least some problems that could be attributed to one of the MobileMe email servers.
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Apple pushes MobileMe surprise to XP, Vista

Posted July 22, 2008 - 11:22 am

Apple Inc. installed a control panel applet for its MobileMe online sync and storage service on Windows XP and Windows Vista systems when they were updated to iTunes 7.7 -- the second time this year that it's bundled new software with an update for an existing program.
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MobileMe users seethe over four-day e-mail outage

Posted July 21, 2008 - 5:09 pm

Apple's MobileMe online service continued to tick off customers Monday as users blasted the service for outages that have kept them from accessing e-mail for several days.
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Apple's MobileMe users gripe about 'push' that isn't

Posted July 15, 2008 - 12:02 pm

Some Mac users are calling foul after discovering that information entered on their Mac and PC calendars and address books isn't pushed instantly to the servers in the MobileMe "cloud."
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.Mac to shut down Wednesday in advance of MobileMe launch

Posted July 8, 2008 - 2:37 pm

The curtain is about to fall on .Mac, Apple's collection of Web-based services, as the company prepares to make the final switch to its rebranded MobileMe offering. .Mac will go dark on Wednesday evening, as Apple makes its final preparations to launch MobileMe.
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