At the WWDC ‘08 conference this morning Apple announced the new web service called MobileMe. The replacement for .Mac. MobileMe introduces a new way of keeping in sync with your life. Apple have made it even simpler and cheaper for businesses to share information (email, contacts, documents etc.) by supporting office collaboration using Outlook and making it available online with web applications.

A replacement of .Mac, MobileMe is an Internet service that pushes email, calendaring, contacts, photos, and documents to your native applications on your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac’s and PC’s. Steve Jobs describes it, “Think of MobileMe as ‘Exchange for the rest of us,’”. MobileMe enables users to have all their devices or computers in sync with a one repository, where all your new emails/contacts/calendar items are pushed to all devices inside the “cloud”.


MobileMe supports Outlook for PC and for Mac which makes it a realistic replacement for Exchange. Not only does MobileMe support your native applications but it has all the desktop-like web applications needed online for your Mail, Contacts, Calendar and Documents. Featuring drag-n-drop functionality, and keyboard short-cuts. MobileMe comes with 20 GB of online storage that can be used for email, contacts, calendar, photos, movies and documents.

MobileMe will be available in early July for $99/year, with a 60 day free trial available.

Check out the guided tour from the Apple website