June, 2011

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Convincing details on Apple’s iCloud are spilling out ahead of the official unveiling at WWDC on Monday. The LA Times reports that iCloud will be launch as a free service if you buy music from the iTunes music store but that a subscription fee will be charged in time. It also says Apple has signed Universal up to the service, completing its wooing of the big four record labels.

We saw speculation earlier this week that iCloud may come bundled as part of Mac OS X Lion while others have suggested that it will simply replace the current MobileMe offering. The LA Times piece puts the future subscription at $25 a year which is substantially lower than the current cost of MobileMe. Click the headline and let us know: can you see yourself paying for iCloud?

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We went to bed with the news that the PlayStation Network was fully restored and woke to news of another Sony hack.

This time it’s not the PlayStation Network team sitting with their heads in their hands but Sony Pictures which has hacked hard. LulzSec, a group that has been causing all manner of online mischief recently, has released over a million user logins onto the web and says Sony made stealing them easy…

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Apple iCloud, PS Vita is NGP, Apple MVNO: US UpdateThe work week is winding to a close, but the tech news is pouring in this afternoon. We’ve got the latest scoop on Apple’s iCloud service, Sony has all but confirmed the NGP will be called the PS Vita and Apple could be planning its own MVNO network for the iPhone. This and more on today’s US Update.

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We’ve just confirmed that Last.fm‘s Friend Finder service, which scours your Facebook friends and email contacts to match them with Last.fm users, is now in beta for subscribers. A public release for all users is expected “soon”, a Last.fm developer tells us. If you’re a paid up user, you can test it out at last.fm/findfriends and let us know how you get on.

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The Kogan Agora Chromium OS notebook is up for order, with the first units sneaking into the UK next week, making it the first to go on sale here, and beating Google’s official Chrome OS netbook partners to the punch.

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Motorola Atrix now available on T-Mobile, Orange exclusivity endsAs promised, the super phone that’s actually a laptop trapped inside a phone is now available on T-Mobile. With the carrier’s other half (Orange) ending its exclusivity period, the dual-core Motorola Atrix can be had for free on 24-month contracts of £35.75 or more per month. If long-term commitments are not your thing, you can take the Atrix home for £50 to £350 with a short or no-term stints.

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Apple MVNO patent: Will Apple be your official iPhone carrier?Apple’s stronghold on the iPhone ecosystem could be mounting, at least if the company’s latest patent filing comes to fruition. In a move which looks to establish the Cupertino-based company as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), it is not outside the realm of possibility your next iPhone could be powered by the Apple cellular network — worldwide virtual network comprised of at least three traditional carriers.

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PS Vita is the NGP, just ask Sony!Uncertainty over the official name for Sony’s NGP looks to be settling. In the latest twist of events, evidence has surfaced in the HTML code on Sony’s E3 teaser page which explicitly mentions the PS Vita. We’ve heard the NGP referred to as the PS Vita once before, but this time it comes straight from Sony — the NGP is the PS Vita and here’s why.

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