Apple adds another 60 days free for MobileMe members
Apple has sent out another email detailing an additional free extension for members of the £59 per year MobileMe Service, this time 60 more days on top of the 30 already provided last month as an apology. A total of three months extra is very generous, and a sign that the company is not only looking to recruit new subscribers to the service from the world of Windows, but to ensure that those of us whose accounts date back to the days when it was called .Mac, and was for Mac users only, stay along for what has so far been a very bumpy ride.
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There’s a big hoohah right now over Yahoo!’s new offering of location-based services, yet precious little has been written or said about the second-generation iPhone 3G’s incorporation of a GPS chip that is used by a variety of applications you can buy or get for free from Apple’s App Store. Other mobile devices are playing catch-up, but it seems likely that over the next year personalised GPS services will explode in popularity, following on from the sat-navs that have, in a few short years, become must-have devices for all but the most technophobic—or, at least, technowary—vehicle drivers.
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