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Apple and Motorola scuffle over iCloud and push email

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 3rd, 2012)

Motorola scored a victory against Apple today when it won a permanent injunction against the company's iCloud and MobileMe push email service. According to FOSS Patents, the injunction is "preliminarily enforceable," which means Motorola can enforce the ruling right away by posting a 100 million ...

iCloud now has 85 million users

by Chris Rawson (Jan 24th, 2012)

In its recent conference call discussing its record-smashing financial results, Apple revealed that its cloud syncing service, iCloud, currently has 85 million users signed up. iCloud debuted alongside the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 as a free-of-charge replacement for Apple's old MobileMe service, and its ...

Type to your iPhone with Type2Phone and your Mac keyboard

by Erica Sadun (Nov 25th, 2011)

As a general rule, I avoid reviewing apps from friends. You send me a pitch, I pass it along to the team. But when Matthias Ringwald, Bluetooth developer extraordinaire told me about Type2Phone, I really wanted to try it out myself. For $4.99, this Mac app transforms your computer into a ...

'Welcome to iCloud' emails sent out prematurely

by Chris Rawson (Sep 30th, 2011)

Between the upcoming media event on October 4 and recent downtime on MobileMe, it's looking likely that iCloud's public launch is coming soon. An email sent to an AppleInsider reader, reprinted below, adds yet more evidence for an imminent debut of iCloud. Welcome to iCloud. The Apple ID ...

Apple allegedly 'open' to restoring discontinued MobileMe features

by Chris Rawson (Sep 13th, 2011)

As part of the MobileMe transition to iCloud, several of MobileMe's features are being discontinued, including iWeb hosting, Gallery, iDisk, and a handful of syncing services. An AppleInsider reader emailed Apple CEO Tim Cook to complain about the deprecation of iDisk and syncing services for ...

One family, two Find My iPhone adventures

by Chris Rawson (Sep 7th, 2011)

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, an Australian family has recently gone through not one, but two adventures related to stolen iPhones. While on holiday at a Hilton in Fiji, the family's mother, Fiona Donohoe, had her iPhone ripped off by a hotel concierge. In a move worthy of a featured ...

Rumor: iCloud support coming in Snow Leopard 10.6.9

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 29th, 2011)

According to a image sent in to MacRumors, iCloud support may be coming to Snow Leopard users. As you can see in the screenshot above, the .Mac preference pane in a previous OS X's System Preferences reads: "You will no longer be able to sync with this machine because you've upgraded to iCloud. ...

MobileMe, iCloud phishing scam making the rounds

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 26th, 2011)

There's a new phishing scam going around today involving MobileMe and iCloud. As noted by MacRumors, the scam involves an email that asks users to upgrade their MobileMe accounts to iCloud. The email reads: Dear MobileMe member, Please sign up for iCloud and click the submit botton ...

Users transitioning from MobileMe to iCloud to get 25 GB of storage

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 7th, 2011)

Last week we told you what the storage prices will be for iCloud users. Everyone gets 5 GB for free, and users can choose to add an additional 10 GB for US$20/year (15 GB total), 20 GB for $40/year (25 GB total), or 50 GB for $100/year (55 GB total). What wasn't apparent, however, was what ...

Sandvox updated for Lion; Karelia wants to lure iWeb orphans

by Mel Martin (Jul 14th, 2011)

If the impending loss of MobileMe has you wondering how you will maintain and create websites, Sandvox is worth a look. It's more powerful than iWeb, but still easy enough for most beginners. We took a look at Sandvox in May, and now the folks at Karelia are offering a pretty painless path to ...

Finding an iPhone the old-fashioned way

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 14th, 2011)

Ben Patterson and his wife learned a hard lesson on using Find My iPhone after traveling to Manhattan's East Village to visit a friend. After a lovely evening, they hopped from one cab to another as they traveled back to Brooklyn. His wife froze with fear when she realized her iPhone was ...

New iCloud FAQ: Yes, there will be webmail

by Steven Sande (Jun 24th, 2011)

Since iCloud was announced by Apple on June 6, the TUAW inbox has been filled to capacity with questions about the many features of Apple's cloud computing platform of the future. Unfortunately, we have been just as much in the fog as you have about what features are moving from MobileMe to ...

Apple email reveals iCloud storage details

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 20th, 2011)

An email sent from Apple to a MobileMe member reveals some details about Apple's upcoming storage allocation in iCloud. When users sign up for a free iCloud account, they will receive 5 GB of cloud storage. However, when users near their 5 GB limit, they'll receive an email from Apple like the ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me get a MobileMe refund

by Erica Sadun (Jun 16th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I renewed MobileMe in April for $99. It appears there will be no refund. Where's the loud and insistent outcry? Your rather ticked-off nephew, Z Dear Z, Auntie totally gets where you are coming from (although as far as she's concerned, MobileMe is something that always ...

Yes, there will be iCloud web apps

by Chris Rawson (Jun 14th, 2011)

Since Steve Jobs unveiled iCloud at WWDC, many current MobileMe subscribers and potential iCloud users have wondered what will happen to the current web-based offerings for contacts, calendars, email and so forth. Josh Topolsky of This is my next claims that Apple PR has confirmed the current ...