What’s Happening To MobileMe?
Apple has announced a new service called iCloud which will be available this fall and free for iOS 5 and OS X Lion users. When you sign up for iCloud, you’ll be able to keep your me.com or mac.com email address and move your MobileMe mail, contacts, calendars, and bookmarks to the new service. When iCloud becomes available this fall, more details and instructions will be provided on how to make the move. Effective June 6, 2011, if you had an active MobileMe account, your service has been automatically extended through June 30, 2012, at no additional charge. After this, the MobileMe service will no longer be available. You can…
Apple To Announce Social App At Tomorrow’s Event
The internet is overflowing with rumors that Apple will announce a social networking app at the iPad 2 launch tomorrow. Our expectations of the imminent announcement of iOS 5 are indeed high and we can’t help but wonder whether it will all get wrapped together. We also know that Apple have been working on a new version of MobileMe so maybe it is something to do with that. Again it could be something to do with Ping, of course no one will know for sure until the event fires up tomorrow. We will be covering it live, so make sure you keep checking back for that. Maybe we will see…
Photo Stream Service, iPadTime and PhotoBooth Added To iOS 4.3 Developer Build
AppleInsider reports this morning that the latest developer iOS 4.3 beta 2 release mentions a new MobileMe-based Photo Stream picture sync feature, supposedly part of a new Media Stream service and in addition includes versions of a standalone FaceTime and PhotoBooth app for iPad. The idea behind Photo Streams is the facility that you will be allowed to invite other users to view your photos as you take them and upload them to a service, which seems to be connected to MobileMe and 9to5 Mac speculate that Media Stream can be directly connected to Find my Friends. We already know that this latest release includes updates for the new Apple…
