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Apple's cloud: Mobile Me replaces not-well-liked .Mac

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With Google, Microsoft, Amazon and everybody else positioning themselves in the exploding world of cloud computing — in which data, applications and all that goes on with it lives not on your very own server or desktop but in server farms far, far away — you didn't expect Apple to ignore the whole damn thing, did you?

Buried amid the iPhone 3G frenzy at the WWDC is Apple's announcement of MobileMe.

I don't know much yet, except that it costs $99/year for 20 GB of space, and it's supposed to not suck, unlike the now-dead .Mac.

From Engadget:

The rumors were true, Apple just announced their new MobileMe service. Push mail, contacts and calendar data all in the cloud and synced back to your iPhone over the air. Works with the Mac's Mail.app, iCal, and Address Book as well as on PCs for those using Microsoft's Outlook. It's built around Ajax and fully "web 2.0" so that you can access the service from your favorite web browser while maintaining the look and feel of your desktop applications. Syncs photos from your iPhone too. Available at me.com for $99/year and 20GB of on-line storage -- 60 day free trial in early July. Dot mac (.Mac) is gone, baby gone.

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