Apple MobileMe Suffers New Outage Early Friday Morning

Early morning Friday, the Me.com domain was inaccessible again. This outage, which lasted from 2:00 am until approximately 4:30 am, largely went unnoticed by MobileMe subscribers. We tracked it down with the help of Montastic, the free website monitoring service. Read more

CAPTCHA Breaking Tools Lead to MobileMe Spam Attacks

MessageLabs Intelligence Report for October 2008 highlights the increase of spam blogs on Google Blogspot and a rise in spam sent using fake Apple MobileMe accounts as a result of spammers finding it easier to obtain CAPTCHA breaking tools. Read more

Apple Quietly Pushes Improvements to MobileMe

Apple has pushed an update to its MobileMe web service without notifying subscribers of the new changes. The last modified support article (HT3182) is titled “late-September 2008 MobileMe update” and last modified on October 29 without indication when it was originally published. Read more

Apple MobileMe Control Panel for Windows Updated to v1.2

Apple has updated its MobileMe Control Panel for Windows to version 1.2. This update provides better support for syncing a large number of contacts (more than 2,000) and prevents syncing of data between Microsoft Exchange Server and MobileMe, a configuration that is not supported. The MobileMe Control Panel is required to set up sync on your Windows PC. Read more

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update Comes With More Than 30 Fixes

Apple released Mac OS X 10.5.5 and Security Update 2008-006 today. The 157 MB update comes with more than 30 fixes for Address Book, Disk Utility, iCal, Mail, MobileMe, and Time Machine. The Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update is recommended for Mac OS X Leopard versions 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3 and 10.5.4. Read more

Apple Warns MobileMe Users About Fraudulent Phishing

Apple warned MobileMe users today they are being targeted with fraudulent phishing emails. “Phishing” (also known as “carding” or “spoofing”) refers to email that attempts to fraudulently acquire personal information from you, such as your account password or credit card information. On the surface, the email may appear to be from a legitimate company or individual, but it’s not. Read more

MobileMe Control Panel 1.1 for Windows Users Available

MobileMe Control Panel 1.1 for Windows is available for download as a standalone installer. With MobileMe, your contacts, calendar, and bookmarks are automatically kept in sync between your PC, iPhone, iPod touch, and a suite of web apps at me.com. Read more

Sync Different With SugarSync for iPhone and iPod Touch

MobileMe, Apple’s subscription-based collection of online services and software, has been plagued by problems since it launched. Many MobileMe users have ’migrated’ to Yahoo!’s Zimbra Mobile, and a new service from Sharpcast, called SugarSync for iPhone,  promises to be even more attractive alternative for those willing to make a ’switch.’ Read more

MobileMe Alternative: Yahoo! Zimbra Mobile for iPhone 3G

Yahoo!’s Zimbra Mobile provides over-the-air (OTA) two-way synchronization of e-mails, multiple calendars and contacts between user mailboxes and mobile devices, and enables seamless “push” e-mail service for all versions of Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Network Edition Standard or Professional, including the most current version, ZCS 5.0. Read more

Apple MobileMe Service Open to E-mail Harvesting and Spam

Apple’s MobileMe, a subscription based collection of online services and software offered by Apple, has hit a new low. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has recently warned that MobileMe is vulnerable to e-mail harvesting and spam. The service has been plagued by problems since it launched. Read more

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