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...

Since broadband has taken off here in the states (mostly) as well as the rest of the world, people, especially those with older machines that are having a not so easy time keeping up with the increasing demands placed upon them, have started started focusing their attention on cloud services. Of course there is Apple’s paid MobileMe service which is decent, there is Microsoft’s LiveMesh, Google of course has their own venture and host of services to brag about,...

Did you sign up with MobileMe and have had one, two, three, or more questions/problems that the written FAQ’s and other forum based topics couldn’t answer?  Good news English speaking users as Apple announced on this Monday, April 27th, on their MobileMe News Blog that MobileMe will now feature 24/7 Chat support (English only) to help you step your way through your issues no matter what time of day or night, and hopefully get you back on the straight and narrow...

If you were a fan of Apple’s in house email service known as “.Mac”, today will bring a sad announcement and possibly a tear to your eye.  Apple has officially stated that July 7th would be the end of .Mac homepages and groups.  The homepages you currently have would still be accessible, however you will not be able to edit old, or create new pages after said date.  Homepage changes aren’t all that bad as you can still use MobileMe and iWeb to...