readwriteweb.com - 10/8/2009
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Earlier this week, electronics retailer Best Buy announced a new mobile backup service called mIQ . Designed to compete with similar services like Apple's MobileMe or Microsoft's My Phone, mIQ offers up to 1 GB of storage space in the cloud for photos, video, contact and calendar information, ...
miqlive.com - 10/5/2009
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miqlive.com —
Some things are just easier to do on
your computer - mIQ automatically mirrors the content on...
your phone to the web, helping you access and share your mobile experiencesâno cables required - Send and receive text messages from your computer ⢠...
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Free mobile phone contact, photo, video and text message ...
support.apple.com - 10/9/2009
androidguys.com - 10/5/2009
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androidguys.com —
Those of you interested in picking up an
HTC Hero from Best Buy might want to clear...
your schedule for Friday morning. Rather than waiting until this Sunday morning (11th) to get your phone, whip out your Rewards Zone membership card and ...
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Hey Best Buy Reward Zone Members! Get Your HTC Hero on ...
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Meet mIQ: BestBuy's Free Clone of Apple's Mobile Me
Fast Company - Technology —
Apple's MobileMe is variously reviled and applauded in different corners of the Net, but it's hard to argue that it provides a pretty comprehensive service. So comprehensive that Best Buy has just cloned it--and made it available for free.
The service is called mIQ and it supports BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Symbian S60 phones--basically a huge haul of devices from the latest BlackBerrys to Nokia's flagship N97. But for now, it won't support the iPhone. That's not too surprising since it's essentially a copy of Apple's service: 1GB of cloud storage for you contacts, photos, videos, calendars, SMS chats, and so on--all synced from the phone to ...
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