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Hey Apple, You Don’t Own My Contacts
Hey Apple, You Don’t Own My Contacts
Allow me to vent here for a second. As you may have read in my recent post about Mac products at Target, I have been in the midst of reloading things for my attempt at installing Windows 7 on the MacBook Pro. This included a wipe of OS X for good measure, which has been [...]
iPhone push notifications: dead and buried, or waiting in the wings?
macworld.com — The $64,000 question: what happened to Apple's push notification service? Dan Moren has some ideas—and only a... few of them are ridiculous. (more) iPhone push notifications: dead and buried, or waiting ...
MobileMe renewal: Yes or no?
MobileMe renewal: Yes or no?
tuaw.com — Earlier this week, I noticed that the calendars on my Mac and my iPhone weren't in sync.... " More MobileMe nonsense ," I thought. However, I soon found the culprit, and it wasn't MobileMe acting wonky. My account had expired, and I was within the 15 ... (more) MobileMe renewal: Yes or no?
Microsoft to take to the “sky” with App Store, MobileMe competitors next month?
Microsoft to take to the “sky” with App Store, MobileMe competitors next month?
venturebeat.com — Earlier today, I joked that Microsoft may call its third-party application store for its Windows Mobile platform... the “Microsoft Live Mobile App Emporium,” since so many obvious names are now taken with Apple controlling “App ... (more) Microsoft to take to the “sky” with App Store, MobileMe ...
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The trouble with Web 2.0
Yahoo! Tech Advisors — ... , locking out nearly a million paying customers from its web-based CRM tool. Numerous companies use Salesforce.com as a vital tool for managing sales calls and the selling process, so even a relatively short outage (this one was about an hour) can cost a company's sales operation thousands of dollars or more. Also recently, Technologizer's Ed Oswald griped that his Apple MobileMe account had all its synced contacts deleted after his subscription expired (this atop months of user complaints about MobileMe simply not working). And the web is of course legion with tales of ...

Dear Technologizer: Apple Doesn’t Own Your Contacts [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — ... This past weekend, Ed Oswald of Technologizer published a piece about how Apple seems to have stolen his contacts as if they owned them. The gist of the article is that he canceled his MobileMe account — without taking any actions to save his data beforehand — and thinks it’s Apple’s fault that the contacts left stranded on his iPhone cannot be somehow “saved,” even though he killed the very method he was using to maintain them.  ...

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