Archive for July 28, 2008

Apple now posting near-daily MobileMe outage updates

Taking the matter head-on, Apple is now fully acknowledging the problems it’s had with MobileMe in the past two weeks as well as the attempts to fix it — to the point where company chief Steve Jobs is involved.An anonymous Apple worker has been tasked by Jobs with providing multiple updates per week on a dedicated status page that explain at least

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Britain Cracks Down On Illegal Downloading!!!

Britain’s six biggest Internet service providers have agreed to work with the government and music industry to clamp down on illegal downloading, a music industry association said Thursday.


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Xbox Live May Be Moving To Free

It seems that ending the gold/silver distinction in Games for Windows Live (effectively making it free) might have had the same effect for those who game on titles that are both PC and 360

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Apple admits to lost MobileMe messages, bad karma

Apple’s Push-like MobileMe launch has been such a debacle that they’re now in damage control mode. As a result, some poor soul has been tasked by Steve Jobs to post status updates “every other day or so.” The first update is already revealing:
* Last Friday, 1% of MobileMe subscribers were affected by a “serious problem” with one of Apple’s ma

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New computer language enters a cell’s “mind” & writes codes

“This language is stepping into an unknown universe, when your computer starts building things for you…”

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