24 Jul

Apple notes continued MobileMe service outage

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Apple has posted a tech note to its Web station acknowledging a continued outage concerning users of its MobileMe service. It’s the latest problem to plague the service since it was launched last week.

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“On Friday, July 18, 2008 (2008-07-18) we experienced a serious consequence with one of our MobileMe mail-bag servers,” reads Apple’s service notice. “This issue is currently affecting approximately 1% of MobileMe members. Affected members are unable to send or receive email at www.me.com or access email using any email dependant software such as Mail on a Mac or Microsoft Outlook on a PC.”

“We understand this is a serious consummation and apologize for this service disconnection. We are working hard to restore your service,” concluded the message.

MobileMe is Apple’s replacement for .Mac. The service, which costs subscribers $99 per year, hosts e-mail, Web publishing, resemblance publishing and data synchronization services between Macs, PCs, iPhones and iPod touch systems. Unlike .Mac, MobileMe sports an interface designed to be similar to a desktop or application user experience — you can click and drag content, create new enter appointments, manage your contact list and other thing from a Web interface, and it synchronizes with connected computers and devices.

Apple’s launch of MobileMe has been quite rocky. At first, many users weren’t clever to log in or get content to synchronize at all, for example. Apple ultimately responded by means of apologizing for the outage and offering MobileMe subscribers a 30-day extension to their membership. “The .Mac to MobileMe shifting was a lot rockier than we had hoped,” related an Apple spokesman.

Shortly after launch Apple also updated the software Macs require to aggrandizement MobileMe; other third party vendors that turn to account .Mac services, such as Karelia’s Sandvox Web site publishing software, require also required an update.