If you have an iPhone then you must be aware of that neat feature called “Find My iPhone”. Once activated, the feature will detect your lost or stolen iPhone and you might be able to retrieve it.

An unnamed victim was held at gun point in Shadyside, PA and forced to give the robbers his wallet and iPhone. Little did the robbers know that the guy had a MobileMe account which let him find the iPhone. The man together with police located the three suspects and they were apprehended later in the night. So what do you think? Glad you have activated yourMobileMe subscription?

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Phone loss or theft is pretty common in the world today. But if you get feedback about a certain iPhone app that can help you locate your iPhone (lost or stolen), then you may want to consider getting it for the well-being of your Apple handset. And thanks to MobileMe, the “Find My iPhone” app is certainly living up to its word as a handy app, allowing you to retrieve your iPhone and likewise bringing thieves to justice thanks to the GPS technology that the app comes with.

The truth is that there have been two cases of thefts which have brought burglars to justice. One was the story of 15 year old Dustin Simantob of Colorado and the most recent one from an undisclosed victim. Don’t be the third one and get this service for the safety of your iPhone at MobileMe. You can even start with a 60 day trial if you want and then avail of the service at $99 a year once your convinced!

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Apple has recently announced that they have released a free app onto the App Store entitled MobileMe iDisk. This essentially gives MobileMe subscribers the ability to access their iDisk files on their iPhone/iPod touch.

Below is the official list of features included with the app:

- View files on your iDisk
- Access Public folders
- Easily share files from your iPhone
- Quickly access recently viewed files
- View iPhone-supported file types-including iWork, Office, PDF, QuickTime and more. (Files larger than 20MB may not be viewable.)

Again, this will only work if you have an active subscription to Apple’s MobileMe service.

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The iPhone 3GS has been out for almost a month now and we already have the first gold version of it. The Diamond Rose Gold iPhone 3GS is a 18 carat solid rose gold phone designed entirely by hand. Four craftsman have been working on it in Liverpool, UK and I must say that another masterpiece has been created. Sure the average Joe will rather buy a house, instead of paying £21,995 for a phone, but this handset is marvelous. Besides the regular iPhone 3GS features, this baby comes with 150 added grams of solid rose gold and 53 pink diamonds. What’s not to like about it except for the price? Oh and just in case you do buy this iPhone 3GS, make sure you also invest some of your money in a MobileMe account. Just in case the phone gets lost or stolen!

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It’s not the perfect title I could have come up with and I certainly do not advise anyone to steal any iPhone or any other gadget for that matter. But since the iPhone 3G/3GS is a pretty cool handset we will probably end up hearing funny stories about how some not-so-smart muggers got caught after stealing their first iPhone.

So if you’re a future iPhone thief you should know that any iPhone you might want to steal could have the Find My iPhone feature enabled. Find My iPhone will show owners the location of their lost handset provided they have a MobileMe account. But guess what people? The feature can be immediately turned off by a smarter thief and you won’t be able to track your iPhone anymore. Just go to the MobileMe account and turn off Find My iPhone. Or turn off Location Services from General settings. After that go home and reset the phone completely and voila, you have a new iPhone.

With all these in mind we will be waiting for the first funny stories depicting stolen iPhones. And what have we learned from this story kids? Always protect your iPhone with passwords. Unless you work for some secret agency in which case you surely can track any phone and people don’t exactly get to rob you.

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Tags: 3G, 3gs, Apple, Find My iPhone, iPhone, Mobile News, MobileMe

MobileFiles Pro has just been announced by Quickoffice. The application was especially developed for the iPhone and the iPod touch. MobileFiles Pro won’t let you play with all those Microsoft Office docs but it will at least let you manage Excel documents. You can edit and save your spreadsheets in .xls format which is a good start. We should be expecting documents and presentations to be edited in the near future.

MobileFiles Pro will let you transfer files via WiFi from your iPhone or iPod touch to your computer. It will also let you access your MobileMe account and sync files with it.

Paul Moreton, vice president of product management at Quickoffice said:

This launch reinforces our commitment to deliver our award-winning software across leading smartphone platforms to allow more users to stay connected to all of their content and to improve productivity when on the go. We look forward to providing more upgrades to our iPhone application in 2009.

Want it already? It’s only $9.99 after the free trial.

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MobileMe is a great idea which went terrible wrong a least a couple of times. Despite Apple’s efforts to launch the iPhone 3G together with the App Store and MobileMe, the later proved to be a more complicated launched than initially predicted.

Apple started offering up to 60 complimentary free days of MobileMe subscriptions to everyone affected by the whole switch but that’s not enough. And it’s not enough for Steve Jobs who didn’t hesitate to share his thoughts on the matter in a mail addressed to the “Team”:

Team,

The launch of MobileMe was not our finest hour. There are several things we could have done better:

– MobileMe was simply not up to Apple’s standards – it clearly needed more time and testing.

– Rather than launch MobileMe as a monolithic service, we could have launched over-the-air syncing with iPhone to begin with, followed by the web applications one by one – Mail first, followed 30 days later (if things went well with Mail) by Calendar, then 30 days later by Contacts.

– It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store. We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without consequence.

We are taking many steps to learn from this experience so that we can grow MobileMe into a service that our customers will love. One step that I can share with you today is that the MobileMe team will now report to Eddy Cue, who will lead all of our internet services – iTunes, the App Store and, starting today, MobileMe. Eddy’s new title will be Vice President, Internet Services and he will now report directly to me.

The MobileMe launch clearly demonstrates that we have more to learn about Internet services. And learn we will. The vision of MobileMe is both exciting and ambitious, and we will press on to make it a service we are all proud of by the end of this year.

Steve

There’s really nothing to say as it’s pretty clear. Apple is firing incompetent employees taking serious action towards fixing what has gone so wrong.

I’d like to see a similar mail to Microsoft employees regarding Vista. It should basically explain why Vista sucks and address the actual main problem which is lack of good leadership and foresight.
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Replacing the .Mac with the new MobileMe was something people were anxiously waiting for. And the transition wasn’t smooth at all. As you can see in the Apple apology above, they recognize the MobileMe mess and categorize it as “a lot rockier than hoped”.
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Although the MobileMe service from Apple which will replaces .Mac has already been working with users reporting to have received MobileMe boxes containing the activation codes, the official switch to MobileMe will be tomorrow July 9th between 6PM and 12AM PT.

During this time, almost all .Mac services will be down, the only exception being .Mac Mail which will be accessible from your desktop, iPhone or Touch. So whether you are an old subscriber or you were waiting for the MobileMe to officially arrive, you can try it tomorrow. Push email, contacts and calender like never before with this Apple tool. And it comes just in time for the iPhone.

Tags: 3g iphone, Apple, mac, Mobile News, Mobile Software, MobileMe

Remember the WWDC 2008? All that fuss about the 3G iPhone? And did we get what we wanted? Well we did get some of it but we were expecting for much more. One other useful thing that came out of this WWDC was the new online service MobileMe. MobileMe will replace the .Mac service and @mac.com addresses will switch to @Me.com. Since MobileMe is available for pre-order, does the new Me.com email address work already?
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