Mr Jobs acknowledged that with Mobile Me which was a lot less ambitious and had problems.
If you lose your phone, Mobile Me will display a Google Map that shows where your iPhone is, as long as it's turned on.
One of those getting the most buzz was the Find My iPhone feature, which will be available only for customers of Mobile Me, an Apple service that lets users sync e-mail and other data between computers and iPhones.
We thought we'd come and gone on the whole Apple-does-an-MVNO rumor thing that was buzzing around just prior to the ROKR E1's launch last September, but with Apple's enigmatic "Mobile Me" trademark filing hitting the the wires today, speculation is already re-cropping up that Apple's still working behind the scenes to pound out their own mobile virtual network operator.
This can be used to sync email, bookmarks, etc. just like in the days of Mobile.me.
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My sister, who lives in Maryland, reached me on my mobile and started screaming at me to run out of my house.
So could toys like Mattel's IM-Me mobile messaging device, which increasingly ships with wi-fi on board.
"I'm not having the business of the House decided by (shudder) Peter Bone, " one upwardly mobile backbencher told me.
So could toys like Mattel (nyse: MAT - news - people )'s IM-Me mobile messaging device, which increasingly ships with wi-fi on board.
Sony Mobile Communications loaned me a review unit of the Xperia T, and its specifications are slap bang in the middle of the acceptable for a high-end smartphone.
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In spite of the ever changing behaviors of mobile users, and the highly personal, always-on-always-with-me benefits of mobile, many mobile marketers still view their customers as segments and use old school disciplines for marketing.
But until then, treating the development of your social commerce applications like you do the mobile web seems to me like the most efficient approach.
And as Amy Gershkoff, the Global Director of Analytics at the PR agency Burston-Marsteller, told me, mobile will only successfully monetized when the advertising industry understand that mobile isn't just a smaller screen version of traditional Internet media.
Me, a mobile-search engine that wants to change the way we interact with our smartphones.
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I'm not going to say that the iPhone changed the rules, but it's certainly given me the best mobile Web browser I've ever experienced.
Visa plans to launch a mobile application, V.me, later this year.
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It would be remiss to say my anecdote somehow proves the necessity of mobile AV, but it made me appreciate the recent success of antivirus software company AVG.
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Exposure to hundreds of mobile startups as an investor helped me develop my vision of the qualities necessary for a company to succeed in a highly competitive market.
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So big, it seems, that when I went to the wireless carrier KDDI to replace my old mobile, nobody bothered to tell me my new phone, a Sanyo Global Passport, was a member of the 3G.
And on my first day in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, it happened to me with my BlackBerry Z10.
Playing on the Vita actually helps me better understand my own criticism of mobile gaming.
Morgan, who spoke to me on the sidelines of the Open Mobile Summit in London last week, is moving on.
Which brings me to month 3 of dumping my mobile, the time machine that used to reside in my pocket.
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Tell me about your Raspberry Pi-based mobile solution on Twitter.
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In mobile, email, its newly acquired About.me service and in its new video chat service, the company is trying to erase your memories of AOL dial-up CDs in your mailbox.
Firstly it could be a valuable short cut for me to keep up with my interest in mobile.
As a cab driver once told me when I asked him what happens to mobile devices left in his cab.
For me it was all about the advancement of mobile computing.
"The issue for me is why someone can drive with a mobile phone on their lap in an active conversation and not be prosecuted and, as we saw tragically in this case, someone died, " Mr Underhill said.
That gives me a total of 1.19GB of free mobile data a month using a device that fits inconspicuously into my laptop bag.
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