Hackers have broken into Salma Hayek's email, revealing the actress's iPhone-app obsession, designer-clothes habit, travel plans, and more. (Her billionaire husband, François-Henri Pinault, who's throwing a second wedding for her this weekend, pays the bill!)
After claiming over and over that MobileMe migration problems had only affected "1 percent" of us who use Apple's hosted email service, the company sent out an apology and a free extra 60 days of service to all MobileMe users Monday night. Cash value: $16.27.
A security company that crawls the Net turned up personal information for between 100 and 200 users of Apple's MobileMe email service, stored on a server used by phishing scammers. By contacting victims, investigators at CardCops learned that they'd fallen for this week's unusually convincing MobileMe scam. Which…
A Macworld reader sent in a screenshot of a charmingly credible HTML email that claims to be from Apple: "We were unable to process your most recent payment. Did you recently change your bank, phone number or credit card?" It's convincing not just because it's pretty, but because this sort of error from MobileMe at…
Looks like I'm a member of the One Percent Club again today — the supposedly tiny proportion of Apple's webmail users who are missing messages. Where's Apple's new MobileMe chief, Eddy Cue?
Eddy Cue, the vice president in charge of Apple's iTunes Store, where outages contributed to the iPhone 3G's messy launch, isn't getting fired. Instead, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is promoting him to head all of Apple's Internet services — iTunes, the App Store, and MobileMe — and will report directly to Steve Jobs. Does…
It's like Steve Jobs is saying what we're thinking in a leaked email sent to Apple employees:
The enigmatic David G. of Apple has been given the go-ahead to proclaim MobileMe's email problems, affecting those lucky 1 percent of users, resolved after three weeks. I guess someone should email the FailMe Is More Like It guy. [Apple]
LiveJournaler akil writes of a recent visit to the Apple Store, where a new, streamlined process for iPhone buying was in effect: "They started prequalifying people at 6:30 a.m. Within three minutes of arriving, I was given a serialized tag that is linked to an actual iPhone and I'm guaranteed to get one."…
"Apple's MobileMe is far too flawed to be reliable," the Sage of Potomac pronounced yesterday. It's a rare swipe from Walt Mossberg, the guy better known for writing Steve Jobs's marketing slogans ("the most elegant desktop computer I've ever used.") What's important is that Mossberg isn't complaining about…
Apple's .Mac email — relaunched as MobileMe in conjunction with the iPhone 3G two Fridays ago — is still flying as crooked as Drinky Crow on payday. MacRumors has aggregated customer gripes. Apple's hard-to-swallow response: Only 1 percent of customers are having problems after Apple's server migration. MobileMe…
[Editor's note: Tim Woolery, aka Tim the IT Guy, works hands-on in IT in the Bay Area. With nearly 15 years' experience at everything from CAT 5-cabled steel furnaces to intercontinental remote-controlled radio stations, Tim's able to spot and plug holes in the coverage of important tech news. Rather than bone up on…
One of Apple's greatest strengths has always been the clean design and memorable branding of its products. Which makes this logo for its new MobileMe internet service all the more surprising. Why? Because it looks like a Windows knockoff, and it sucks, frankly. Rod Townsend, who wonders if this is "the worst logo in…
At Steve Jobs's WWDC Keynote, Gizmodo is reporting that Apple has replaced .Mac, its computer-centric set of Web services, with MobileMe, an online suite of email, photos, and file storage. It's designed to keep iPhones, PCs, and Macs in sync — hence the need for a new name. Other than that, little has changed: The…
