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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 good to say about it . I look back, smiling,...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-24-2008
Microsoft tries to throw some cold water on iPhone

Computerworld has some interesting information about Windows Mobile vs. Apple's iPhone: Companies -- lots of them -- are still buying Windows Mobile smart phones, and Microsoft doesn't want to let iPhone mania make them forget. During Microsoft's most recent fiscal year, 325 enterprises purchased...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-21-2008
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 Gmail and Google Calendar to get things done. But...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-20-2008
Windows Mobile Apps

Microsoft EMEA tries to prove that Windows Mobile doesn't come up short against the iPhone and the iPhone Application Store but really just ends up proving that Microsoft can't do anything on the Web these days without first promoting Silverlight. Sorry, but the Windows Mobile Apps site just...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-17-2008
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 but ... geesh. It's really annoying. Turns...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-16-2008
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. Gary Krakow has gone insane . I was going to...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-15-2008
Hello, Android

Obviously with all the iPhone 3G hoopla from last week, there's been a lot of Apple, Apple, Apple here and elsewhere. But the iPhone isn't the only viable smart phone platform in town (though I'd argue it's still the best one and, oddly enough, already the most mature). I'm also interested...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-14-2008
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 of @#$%. Why would MobileMe be much better?) What...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-14-2008
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 ActiveSync licensees that enable all sorts of...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-11-2008
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 about this? After all, she went after Microsoft...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-10-2008

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