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Daily Tip: How to get photos from your computer onto your iPhone and iPad with iTunes

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, May 2, 2011 a 9:22 pm

Both the iPhone and iPad do phenomenal a job of displaying the photos you take with them, but how do you get your existing photos, the ones on your computer, onto your iPhone and iPad? iTunes is the answer, and we'll show you how, after the break!

Will Apple’s cloud storage and streaming services be known as iCloud?

By chrisoldroyd, Thursday, Apr 28, 2011 a 7:57 am

According to a report by GigaOM, Apple could be shelling out around $4.5 million to buy the domain name iCloud.com, potentially for the long rumored music locker/streaming service. The icloud domain was recently owned by another company that used the name for an online storage service. It has just re-branded its service to CloudMe.

When you visit icloud.com it currently redirects to the new domain cloudme.com but shows a banner informing customers of its re-brand from icloud to cloudme!

iTunes music streaming service already approved by two major music labels?

By chrisoldroyd, Friday, Apr 22, 2011 a 9:11 am

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s news that Apple was ready to launch its iTunes music streaming service, All Things Digital is now reporting that Apple already has deals in place with two of the major music labels.

iTunes cloud storage and streaming service all ready for launch?

By chrisoldroyd, Thursday, Apr 21, 2011 a 4:56 pm

Reuters is reporting that Apple has now completed work on its rumored online music storage and streaming service. Reuters also claim that Google is working on a similar service but its plans have stalled; Apple will beat it to the launch. The source of this new information is cited as “several people familiar with both companies’ plans”.

Apple buying 12 petabytes of storage for iTunes online

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Apr 6, 2011 a 2:07 pm

According to Storage Newsletter, Apple has purchased 12 petabytes (1 petabyte is 1024 terabytes, so over 12,000 terabytes) of storage from EMC's Isilon Systems, reported for use with iTunes to store music, movies, TV, and other media content online.

iPhone Live 144: No new iPhone

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Apr 1, 2011 a 2:20 am

Show notes and all the week's iPhone news after the break!

Amazon Cloud Music launched without licenses, has record labels fuming

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Mar 29, 2011 a 6:31 pm

Turns out Amazon might have beaten Apple in the online music locker race by sprinting off the blocks well before the whistle was ever blown, at least if the stunned reactions by music labels are to be believed. Reuters reports:

Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player music services announced

By chrisoldroyd, Tuesday, Mar 29, 2011 a 8:20 am

Amazon surprised the tech world last night by announcing Cloud Drive and Cloud Player services for streaming music to various platforms. Amazon has stolen a march on Apple after we heard the other day that Apple was supposedly planning to launch a similar service very soon (given their purchase of streaming service Lala happened more than a year ago.) Well, Amazon has gotten here first.

Apple unveiling iTunes cloud services and wireless syncing soon?

By Jeremy, Friday, Jul 2, 2010 a 10:50 am

BGR is reporting that one of their reliable sources is claiming to know Apple's iTunes is going to the cloud and soon. The source states these cloud capabilities will be broken down into 3 separate groups:

Next Apple TV to adopt iPhone OS, cloud storage, $99 price

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, May 28, 2010 a 11:21 am

If rumors are to be believed, the next Apple TV is going to adopt the iPhone OS, eschew local drives for cloud storage, and hit a $99 price point.

TiPb's been wondering out loud about putting the iPhone OS on the Apple TV for a while now, so obviously we're excited to hear that may be on the table. Sure, figuring out how to translate the current multitouch input methods of the iPad and iPhone to something that works on a 60" from 10' away but having Safari and apps and games on the platform will be more than worth the effort.