Me.com email addresses online now!

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by Stephen Withers

Monday, 30 June 2008

Page 1 of 2 ! With the launch of MobileMe set for early July, Apple is wasting no time in transitioning .Mac users to me.com email addresses. The shift has started, with some .Mac users reporting their new addresses are already active. Related stories MacBook touch - here's hoping it's not a pipe dream Google goes to 'Android Market' in App Store challenge Why iPhone 2.0.2 fixed problems for some users Why Pod when you can Plum? Psystar Wars: Attack of the Clones When Apple announced MobileMe, it explained that if a .Mac subscriber had the email address <user>@mac.com, he or she will be allocated <user>@me.com when MobileMe is available. But users are beginning to report that their me.com addresses are already working. Give it a try, but don't be surprised if your account hasn't been transitioned yet - it isn't unusual for major changes to take a week or more to spread across all users of large-scale online services. A sensible move on Apple's part is that mac.com email addresses will continue to work in parallel into the indefinite future. So messages sent to <user>@mac.com will show up when checking the <user>@me.com account, and vice versa. One place where the two addresses will serve as two different identities is iChat. And while a mac.com address continues to work with iChat even if the subscription is allowed to lapse, Apple has warned that a me.com address will only work with iChat while the MobileMe account is active. MobileMe is a revamped version of the .Mac Internet service. The change of name appears to be driven by the added support for the iPhone, as iPhone owners may not identify with the .mac.com domain name. What else does it offer? Please turn to page 2. << First page <   1 2 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

 

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