Mossberg Sends MobileMe Back to the Drawing Board

Walter Mossberg, the Dean of MSM technology writers, has pronounced MobileMe “way too ragged” to be considered reliable.

His frank and unsentimental review of Apple’s web services product goes beyond the launch difficulties that have kept Apple’s support forums humming with angry subscribers and which prompted the company to extend members’ $100 annual subscriptions by 30 days last week. Citing his experience in extensive testing and interaction with Apple’s support team, Mossberg chronicles a list of half a dozen problems that make the service tedious, sluggish and unpredictable.

Apple engineers blame Microsoft Outlook quirks for issues related to calendar and address book synching and say they are working on fixes for other problems.

Written by Lonnie Lazar on July 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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iPhone 3G Availability Tracker

If you’re wondering whether it might be a good time to head to the nearest Apple Store to join the queue for a new iPhone, the folks at Top Muffin offer a comprehensive iPhone Availability Tracker.

The page is powered by data from Apple’s own availability widget and is updated every 15 minutes. The accuracy of Apple’s availability information has been questioned by some in the chaotic first two weeks since the 3G model launch, prompting Top Muffin to recommend calling stores first to confirm stock on-hand.

Written by Lonnie Lazar on July 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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Stanford to Teach iPhone Programming

The Computer Science Department at Stanford University will offer a course in iPhone programming in the Fall Semester, according to its latest course schedule.

It is unclear at this point whether Apple will object to the course offering under the terms of its SDK confidentiality agreement.

Via TUAW

Written by Lonnie Lazar on July 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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O2 promises more iPhones on Friday

But how many will they get?

If - like me - you’ve been unable to get your hands on a 3G iPhone yet, then the O2 iPhone availability page has been refreshed a fair bit lately. Recently, O2 have updated the page to state that “We are expecting considerably more stock from Friday 25th July onwards.” They also say that “Soon after this date we are hoping to open our online upgrade shop for existing customers and online shop for new customers.”.

Fingers crossed they will have a lot more coming in. But how many are Apple going to ship over? Chris Barnes has whipped up an iPhone availability tracker for the USA, based on Apple’s own data feed. What does this tell us? There are a lot of stores without iPhones. And which market do you think Apple will resupply first? Yep, home sweet home.

Up early again on Friday, then…

Written by Matt Radford on July 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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FSJ is dead… Long live –Dan?!!

It’s no news that The Secret Diary of Fake Steve Jobs is off-line after what has to be one of the most entertaining runs in recent memory.  That said those of you longing for just one more dose of dry wit and satire FSJ-style need wait no longer.

Dan Lyons, the creative genius behind FSJ has opened another blog –this time in his own name.  Personally, I find it even funnier now that doesn’t have  to voice his satire through the mask of FSJ and can just be himself.

Dan’s new blog can be found at: http://realdanlyons.com/blog/

Written by Leigh McMullen on July 23rd, 2008 with no comments.
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