Contacts

• Searching for contacts in a large address book (more than 1000 contacts) is faster and no longer results in a “slow script” browser alert message
• Exported vCards with multi-line addresses or notes can now be imported into the Mac OS X Address Book
• Adds keyboard shortcut to create a new contact
• Additional formatting options for European phone numbers are now supported

Calendar

• Adds sorting of To Do items by calendar or title
• Long event titles now appear properly in Month view

Gallery

• Updated “Tell a friend” email message
• Resolves an issue related to setting a new album’s key photo

iDisk

• Files and folder names that contain Japanese language characters now display properly on the web

Account

• Hosting of iWeb pages can be configured for personal domains ending in “.eu”, “.ax”, “.tl”, “.gw”, “.kp”, “.rs” or “.su”
• Family Member accounts now display the accurate renewal/expiration date
• Resolves an issue that prevented some members from using an activation key (MobileMe box) to renew a subscription

Login

• “Keep me logged in for two weeks” checkbox now works reliably.

For the best MobileMe experience, please use the latest versions of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (if you use a Mac), MobileMe Control Panel (if you use a PC), and iPhone software (iPhone or iPod touch).

[TUAW via MacRumors]

“Think of MobileMe as ‘Exchange for the rest of us’,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Now users who are not part of an enterprise that runs Exchange can get the same push email, push calendars and push contacts that the big guys get.”

MobileMe, available on July 11, is a subscription-based service with 20GB of storage for $99 (US) per year for individuals and $149 (US) for a Family Pack, which includes one master account with 20GB of storage and four Family Member accounts with 5GB of storage each. MobileMe subscribers can purchase an additional 20GB of storage for $49 (US) or 40GB of storage for $99 (US) annually.

With a MobileMe email account, all folders, messages and status indicators look identical whether checking email on iPhone, iPod touch, a Mac or a PC. New email messages are pushed instantly to iPhone over the cellular network or Wi-Fi, removing the need to manually check email and wait for downloads. Push also keeps contacts and calendars continuously up-to-date so changes made on one device are automatically pushed up to the cloud and down to other devices. Push works with the native applications on iPhone and iPod touch, Microsoft Outlook for the PC, and Mac OS X applications, Mail, Address Book and iCal, as well as the MobileMe web application suite.