According to Patently Apple, Apple is laying the foundations for a potential iGroups app that would allow like-minded iPhone (or iPod touch and iPad users, presumably) to set up MobileMe-powered social networks at events like WWDC (Apples yearly World Wide Developers Conference). The idea is to allow groups of friends or colleagues attending such ...

A couple of weeks ago I canceled my MobileMe account. Why? Because it didnt do the one thing I wanted it to do: share my calendar with my wife so we could coordinate our busy lives. That’s all. I love MobileMe’s email, calendar, contact syncing (especially on the iPhone) and even iDisk. I gave Apple a

Apple patent applications are usually pretty dry, but it looks like a new one turned up by Patently Apple has a bit more user-focused meat to it -- it describes a location-based social networking app called "iGroups," which lets groups of people share data amongst themselves using a service like MobileMe. Once group members are identified and linked up, they can securely share information and user...

Apple has devs to the grindstone for a new social networking app called iGroups. Patently Apple reports that docs out today from the US Patent Office describe a new service that would work on your iPhone and probably MobileMe, too. Lets say youre attending SXSW: iGroups would keep you in touch with your co-workers and friends by

Apple is working on a new communications based social networking application that they're simply calling "iGroups." Patently Apple reports. According to the documents published by USPTO today, Apple's iGroup will be a new service that will work on your iPhone and likely work with MobileMe. The idea is to allow groups of friends or colleagues attending such events as a concert, a tradesho...

Apple's MobileMe cloud could become that much more useful as Apple is said to have been in negotiations with various major film studios to offer streaming video content to members. According to CNET, Apple has offered a plan wherein iTunes users will be able to access video from Internet-capable devices. Apple would, of course, prefer that users access video from the iPad, the compa...

If you don't want to spend the money for MobileMe just to be able to sync contacts and calendars among various Macs and iPhones, you can get the same results for free using Google.

The mobile entertainment company hired Pablo Calamera, who oversaw technology development for MobileMe for Apple.

Macworld.com - Apple’s loss is another company’s gain: Pablo Calamera, director of MobileMe, has been hired as Chief Technology Officer by the music and ringtone site Thumbplay.

New York - Thumbplay, a mobile entertainment distributor that recently launched a subscription music service, announced on Monday that it has hired former Apple (NASD: AAPL) executive Pablo Calamera as its new chief technology officer. While at Apple, Calamera oversaw technology development for the cloud-based MobileMe service read more