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• Apple gives MobileMe users an extra 60 days on their subscriptions

  I received the following highly impersonal email from Apple today: MobileMe Update We have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but we still have many more to make. To recognize our users' patience, we are giving every MobileMe subscriber as... Posted Aug 18 2008, 11:18 PM by pthurrott with | with 33 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Mobile, Cloud computing

• The Lessons From the Kindle’s Success

  As I've often noted here, I love the Kindle. I realize it's still too expensive, but it's an amazing eBook reader, with daily newspapers and other periodicals that are automatically downloaded to the device, a pervasive wireless network and... Posted Aug 13 2008, 09:02 AM by pthurrott with | with 38 comment(s) Filed under: Mozilla, Mobile, Cloud computing, Content, Commentary

• Jobs: MobileMe ‘not up to Apple's standards’

  Well, I’m happy for that admission . But let’s be serious: MobileMe is a quagmire on the PC. I’ve written a ton of stuff about this service, stuff that hasn’t been published yet mostly because it goes on and on and on, and there are so many complaints... Posted Aug 06 2008, 07:44 AM by pthurrott with | with 82 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Mobile, Cloud computing

• NuevaSync: OTA iPhone/Google Sync

  I wasted a silly amount of time today trying to get Windows Live Contacts/Calendar to sync with MobileMe (and the iPhone) via Outlook and the new Outlook Connector 12.1 beta. (Long story short: While you can, in fact, make your Windows Live data store... Posted Aug 03 2008, 03:06 PM by pthurrott with | with 57 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Small but important Live Mesh update

  Earlier this month, Microsoft made some changes to Live Mesh , including very low level support for P2P (peer to peer) folder sharing. The problem was (at the time) that you couldn’t configure this explicitly in the UI. So if you wanted to exclude the... Posted Jul 31 2008, 07:09 AM by pthurrott with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: XP, Internet, Windows Live, Mobile, Cloud computing, Vista

• MobileMe photo upload finally fixed on Windows

  I check almost every single day to see whether it’s finally possible for Windows users to upload photos to MobileMe using a Web browser. It’s never worked right. But as of today, it actually works. To be a bit more clear, it “sort of worked” before in... Posted Jul 29 2008, 04:26 AM by pthurrott with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, XP, Alt. Windows, Digital media, Mobile, Cloud computing, Vista

• You know MobileMe is a piece of junk when ... (Updated)

  This one reads like a Jeff Foxworthy (of "you know you're a redneck when..." fame) joke. As in, you know MobileMe is a piece of @#$% when even Walter Mossberg, the world's most prominent support of Apple products, can't find anything... Posted Jul 24 2008, 10:16 AM by pthurrott with | with 113 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, XP, Alt. Windows, Mobile, Cloud computing, Vista, Commentary

• Outlook vs. Gmail—The Definitive Comparison

  Lifehacker offers up an excellent comparison of Microsoft Outlook (traditional desktop email application) and Gmail (cloud computing Web-based email service): Being digital vagabonds without an Exchange server, we Lifehacker writers use online apps like... Posted Jul 20 2008, 10:10 PM by pthurrott with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft Office, Internet, Google, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Oh, about those iPhone and iPod touch backups ... Yeah, that really is a feature

  I've been noticing that every time I connect my iPhone or iPod touch to the PC, it does a very time-consuming backup before any syncing occurs. You can actually stop this backup by clicking the little "x" at the top of the application window... Posted Jul 16 2008, 08:07 PM by pthurrott with | with 43 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, iTunes, iPod, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Gary Krakow is off his rocker, blames MSFT for iPhone battery woes

  Nice to see someone else going after the mainstream media for unfairly blaming Microsoft for something, in this case—get this—the iPhone 3G's poor battery life. Head's up, guys. Push kills battery life, no matter where the service comes from.... Posted Jul 15 2008, 03:24 PM by pthurrott with | with 53 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Mobile, Cloud computing

• MobileMe: Push vs. Sync

  I've gotten a ton of email about Apple substantially backing down from its initial claims about MobileMe's capabilities. (And not to be a jerk about it, I warned you: Unlike many people, I've used .Mac for years, and it was always a piece... Posted Jul 14 2008, 11:06 AM by pthurrott with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, XP, iPod, Mobile, Cloud computing, Vista

• The Exchange Team Blogs about the iPhone 2.0 Software

  The Microsoft Exchange Team Blog : Apple released iPhone 2.0 today which includes a software update to the existing iPhones in the market (yes, we mentioned it when it was announced as well).  We're thrilled to add them to the family of Exchange... Posted Jul 11 2008, 02:02 PM by pthurrott with | with 35 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Mobile, Cloud computing

• MobileMe launch delayed ... Where's the outrage?

  Apple shut down its .Mac service yesterday to launch MobileMe and then ... ran into problems. As of today, MobileMe is still not available, and of course .Mac is down as well . So I have to wonder. Where's Ina Fried's scathing blog attack on Apple... Posted Jul 10 2008, 12:39 PM by pthurrott with | with 72 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Mobile, Cloud computing, Vista, Commentary

• Google Talk for iPhone

  The Google Talk blog has news of a Web-based Google Talk client for the iPhone: Attention iPhone owners! You can now chat with all your Google Talk buddies while on the go. Our new version of Google Talk is designed specifically for the iPhone and runs... Posted Jul 03 2008, 10:46 AM by pthurrott with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Google, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Yahoo! Mail opens to new domains

  Looks like you can grab @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com email addresses now from Yahoo! Mail, in addition to the standard @yahoo.com addresses: For many of you this may not be all that exciting (heck, if you are reading the Yahoo! Mail product blog it... Posted Jun 19 2008, 05:44 PM by pthurrott with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Mobile, Cloud computing