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more about #mobileme more comments → Bystrika: Does Apple have ANYTHING for free and not overpriced!!? Come on!! this service may have helped a few but not millions!! you can do exact same stuff w... more » appletoad: I use Find My iPhone to keep track or my girlfriend. /s more » wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!: While Apple's solution is weak-sauce compared to Microsoft's and RIM's, it's still miles ahead of Nokia Messaging, which (aside from not installing co... more » Cyber_Dude: I'd like to think that I know how push works. :-) And if you want to break it down there are basically two kinds of push: - Some variant of open IP co... more » 13-Year-Old Gadget Blogger: Great article. I was beginning to wonder what push meant! more » aquajaws: Eventually as mobile technology gets faster and more efficient, so processing bandwidth and power supply aren't as big of an issue, push/pull won't ma... more » (Starman) Starman: IMAP is one of the best things I've discovered about GMail this year, actually. It totally makes desktop mail clients much more useful for me, because... more » SneakerFiend: Nice article Giz. I love it when you guys explain things to make the world a less confusing thing to navigate xP Nah but seriously thanks. I still say... more » Rurouni: I want a push e-mail system that doesn't need constant data connection (even if it just idling)... like SMS or MMS but only for e-mail. Maybe some ope... more » krztov: OR get an android/winmo phone where you dont need to have push messages for things like messengers, because theyre actually open :) more » Ridley: So everyone obsesses over push email and all it means is that you can get your email at most a minute faster and sometimes, better batterly life than ... more » iwishiwasjeff: I dont like apple being so pushy. more » ColonelGentleman: Thanks for this. I love when Giz does these recap features about crap we talk about here all the time. It really makes sure all us geeks with differ... more » PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: It's interesting because parallels can be drawn with push and pull systems as applied to manufacturing environments as well. Push systems crank out pr... more » Nick: Hey Ponies! did you push this to your IT guys? more » -
#iphone
Find My iPhone Leads Cops to Robbery Suspects
Find My iPhone to the rescue again! Pittsburgh Police nabbed three robbery suspects over the weekend, after the man they allegedly robbed used the MobileMe online service to point police to their location. More » -
#gizexplains
Giz Explains: How Push Works
Push. It's not just a verb that sends people careening down a flight of stairs. It's also not just for guys in suits diddling on BlackBerrys. You hear it featured on new iPhone apps every week. So, what is it? More » -
#iphone
Playnice Will Make Your iPhone Auto-Update Google Latitude via MobileMe
Apple thwarted Google's effort to release Latitude—which allows your control-freak friends to know where you are at all times—as an iPhone application. You can only update it manually using a web page, which makes it not-so-useful. Until now. More » -
#iphoneapps
iDisk iPhone App Lightning Review: Halfway There
Apple's free iDisk app has potential to make that $60 a year for MobileMe even more worthwhile, but for now it's little more than a fancy file viewer with mediocre management capabilities. More » -
#iphone
iPhone Owners Score Free MobileMe iDisk App
Apple has just released MobileMe iDisk, a free app that allows you to view and share your MobileMe iDisk files from the iPhone or iPod touch. More » -
#iphone
Whoever Steals Your iPhone Can Just Turn Off Find My iPhone Location Tracking
Find My iPhone was one of the best things Apple showed off on Monday at WWDC—track your phone, send harassing messages, etc. It works, but whoever pinched your iPhone can just turn off tracking right from the phone. More » -
#apple
Apple's iDisk iPhone App Lets MobileMe Users View and Send Documents, Videos, and More
Amidst the brouhaha yesterday, we sometimes miss a few little tidbits that could end up being super useful, like Apple's free iDisk app for iPhone. It'll let MobileMe users view and send stored data like documents and videos. More » -
#mobileme
Salma Hayek's MobileMe Account Hacked, No Nudie Pics Found (Sorry!)
One of the irritating mosquito-like posters over at 4chan hacked into Salma Hayek's MobileMe account and found it laughably easy despite MobileMe's "security" questions. More » -
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#8monthslater
Why Apple's MobileMe Doesn't Work As a $100 Service
There's nothing majorly wrong with Apple's MobileMe service. All of its subsidiary pieces and parts—the email, the syncable calendar and contacts, the photo gallery, the online storage—do fine. So why doesn't it make sense? -
#apple
Apple's $30 Time Capsule Discount Could Point at 2TB Time Capsule?
Apple's offering a $30 discount to MobileMe users on both OS X Leopard and Time Capsule. This makes us think that a 2TB Time Capsule is coming soon. Here's why. More » -
#apple
Apple Time Capsule Review
Apple's updated its Wi-Fi router and backup drive combo, Time Capsule, with a guest mode and simultaneous dual-band wireless. I was pretty surprised at how wireless performance has increased, too. More » -
#apple
Apple's Time Capsule, Airport Extreme Update Adds Drive Sharing For Older Units
The latest 7.4.1 update for Time Capsule and Airport Extreme adds Back to My Mac drive sharing, which lets you grab files off of attached USB drives over the internet. More » -
#mobileme
Apple Officially Brings Back MobileMe's Push, Improves Features
Apple just sent out an email to MobileMe subscribers to let them know of some new(ish) features. The biggest bullet point is the fact that push is back. More » -
#fraud
Fraudsters Now Targeting MobileMe Subscribers
Mails pretending to be banks or any other institution, asking you to log into a fake site are not new, but this one targeting MobileMe users is strange, since MobileMe is not very popular. More » -
#microsoft
Microsoft My Phone: Free MobileMe-Style Syncing for Windows Mobile
Today somebody over at Microsoft powered up the My Phone website a wee bit early. Apparently, they've re-branded SkyBox and are bringing lots of cloud syncing fun to WinMo phones. More » -
#macworld2009
iWork '09 Includes iWork.com, Costs $79 + Subscription
Just as rumored last week, Apple is taking iWork '09 online with file hosting and group editing services. Think of it as MobileMe, but for your documents. And that's not all.
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#macworld2009
Apple Revamps iLife for '09: $79 for iPhoto Facial Recognition, Improved iMovie and More
Today at Macworld 2009, Apple showed off a new iPhoto with true facial recognition, a better iMovie and other iLife updates—$79 solo, $99 for family, requires Leopard, available late January. More » -
#rumor
Apple Home Server Will Share Music, Movies and Photos Over the Internet
We love HP's new Time Machine-compatible MediaSmart Home Server. 9to5Mac reports that Apple is working on something similar, but it'll be tied into MobileMe and will share music, movies and more over the internet.
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#apple
MobileMe Rescues iPhone from Thief
Once upon a time, a guy named Rob got his iPhone 3G stolen at the dry cleaners. Thankfully, he was subscribed to MobileMe, which at the end saved the day. Or so he says.
