Germans hoping that a local court would overturn an earlier ruling that saw Motorola’s patent dispute causing the temporary shutdown of push iCloud email are out of luck. The latest decision comes from a Mannheim court which has sided with the original court’s ruling — that Apple’s iCloud push email service infringes on Motorola’s patents. As such, iCloud users in Germany looking for push email will have to continue living on with...

The ongoing legal battle between Motorola and Apple in Germany over iCloud push email hit a new milestone today — with Apple being the loser. In a newly updated support document, Apple states that “due to patent litigation with Motorola, Mobile Me users in Germany are temporarily unable to use push Mobileme or iCloud email”. Other features such as calendars, contacts, etc. are still active and outside of the scope of the lawsuit. Naturally, Apple has...

Think the iPhone 4S’ battery life woes are made up or nothing more than the ramblings of a small few? Think again. According to a new report published by The Guardian, Apple acknowledges that there is an ongoing issue with the iPhone 4S and has even began to have engineers “reach out” and contact individuals reporting serious battery life problems. The engineers are reportedly asking a myriad of questions and then asking the user to install a specific...

It seems Apples streak of relatively unhindered iCloud service following MobileMe’s less than stellar track record is already getting off on the wrong foot. For several hours now users of Apple’s iCloud service have been unable to send any email with their @me addresses. We first discovered the issue about 40 minutes ago when trying to set up iCloud (@Me) mail in the latest 1.4.1 Sparrow.app update which among other things, adds iCloud support. During setup...

Depending on where you live, iCloud began trickling out late last night/early this morning. We’ve already logged in and played around with a few things. Though honestly not much has changed over the last several weeks. Nonetheless, iCloud is Apple’s second attempt at getting this cohesive cloud ecosystem off the ground. MobileMe was a good start but just wasn’t quite all there. Let’s hope iCloud can do it many times better and more reliably. ...