June 7 (Bloomberg) -- Venture capitalist Hussein Kanji discusses the growth of cloud-computing after Apple Inc. introduced its new online storage service, named iCloud, yesterday. He talks with Maryam Nemazee on Bloomberg Television's "The Pulse." Read full article >> The new program will sync music and books on Apple devices. Apple on Monday unveiled the company's three major stars Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud at WWDC 2011. On the second day, Apple will hold "Apple Design Awards Ceremony" and "Stump the Experts" which was said to be a chance to stand toe-to-toe with some of the best engineering minds in the Apple community. Apple's CEO Steve Jobs has announced his aim to 'demote the PC' industry while introducing the iCloud, Apple's new cloud-based solution for synchronizing files across multiple Apple devices. (Telecompaper) Apple introduced iCloud at its developers conference, a new service for customers to store downloads and data in the cloud and share Apple purchased content across multiple devices. The service will launch this autumn on the upcoming iOS 5 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod and OS X Lion for Mac computers. iCloud incorporates the former MobileMe services, for sync and back-up of contacts, calendar and e-mail hosted on the me.com domain. iCloud also automatically backs up other data on iOS devices, daily over Wi-Fi when the device is charging. This includes content purchased from Apple, photos and videos, device settings and app data. Apple released a beta version of iTunes in the Cloud for users running iOS 4.3. This allow iOS device users to share iTunes purchases across multiple Apple devices. iCloud also allows users to share content purchased on the App Store and iBookstore with up to ten devices at no additional cost. Finally, iCloud's Photo Stream service automatically uploads photos taken or imported on any device and wirelessly pushes them to all the user's devices and computers. iCloud will offer users a total 5GB of free storage for their mail, documents ... Steve Jobs came back from medical leave to announce Apple's much anticipated cloud music service called iCloud. It will allow users to access music they've purchased on almost any device. Apple also will offer cloud services for contacts, calendar and mail for free. Steve Jobs earned an ovation in an appearance to announce the music and storage service. Apple announces its latest software: iCloud and iTunes Match, adding a new level of competition for Asian companies like Samsung. Plus, China's state media lashes out at Google's allegations of China-based hacking. WSJ's Jake Lee and Yun-Hee Kim discuss. Is Apple's decision to put iTunes in the cloud all it's cracked up to be? We weigh the pros and cons of what's been announced and highlight important caveats for Australian users. News Analysis: Apple CEO Steve Jobs and his team showed off several new things at the Worldwide Developers Conference, but many more questions remain. - In a long-awaited event in San Francisco on June 6, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to talk about his companys future. The Apple executive and his staff outlined plans for iOS, Mac OS X, and a new cloud-based file storage service, called iCloud. Alon... Apple's new cloud music service has been criticised by sections of the music industry for encouraging piracy by allowing people to essentially legitimise their pirated music collections. The new features and apps announced in iOS 5 once again make a number of popular non-Apple apps redundant and threaten the future of many more. (06-06) 19:03 PDT SAN FRANCISCO, (AP) -- Steve Jobs re-emerged from his latest medical leave Monday to show off Apple Inc.'s latest innovations and sustain the hope that he eventually will return to dream up more ways... Apple founder Steve Jobs announced a free service Monday that allows consumers to store vast amounts of music, video, photos and documents on the Web, one of several emerging "cloud" computing offerings that are diminishing the need for a computer. Once a pioneer of the personal computer, Jobs forecast that his new iCloud service would replace the PC as the hub for people's multimedia needs, making it far easier for them to gain access to their digital libraries on phones, tablets and a multitude of other devices that have an Internet connection. Read full article >> Analysts are impressed with Apple's iCloud; saying it could transform the entire computing industry. Apple's iTunes integration with iCloud is a completely different beast from the music services offered by Amazon and Google. Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage at the 2011 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Calif. to unveil the latest iterations in the Macintosh operating system dubbed "Lion," the fifth version of their mobile iOS operating system, and the new wireless syncing service iCloud. Sandra Hughes reports. Apple finally threw its hat into the cloud computing ring in a serious way today with a new service called iCloud, which allows users to synchronize their applications and media across all their devices. It's an ambitious vision, and one that's about as different as possible from Google's. The search giants, of course, offers a range of online services, but its most cloud-centric product is Chrome OS, an operating system that basically consists of a Web browser and … well, that's it. Anything a user wants to accomplish, they have to do through websites and web applications. (Google describes its Chromebook devices as "nothing but the web".) With iCloud, on the other hand, users continue to download and install software — Apple's infrastructure just ensures that they can access everything regardless of which device they're using. Here's how John Gruber characterized the difference on his blog Daring Fireball: In both cases, your data is in the cloud, and you can access it from anywhere with a network connection. But Google's vision is about software you run in a web browser. Apple's is about native apps you run on devices. Apple is as committed to native apps — ...
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