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Amazon has taken aim at Apple’s iCloud and Google Music by adding unlimited music storage to its Amazon Cloud Player service. The deal will allow users to stash as many MP3s and AAC as they like in their virtual locker.

The deal, which Amazon says is for a limited time, applies to all new Cloud Drive storage plans from the lowest $20 for 20GB plan up. It means music files won’t be counted as part of the storage space. Even if customers don’t purchase a paid plan, any MP3s bought from Amazon can be uploaded for free.

While iCloud’s iTunes Match feature won’t upload files, its copy of a user’s music library will be limited to 25,000 songs while Google Music imposes a cap of 20,000. Amazon has also outed a Cloud Player iPad web app. Sadly, Amazon hasn’t revealed plans to bring Cloud Player and Cloud Drive to the UK yet.

Out now | From £free (US-only) | Amazon

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The rumours around an Apple cloud service have been ramping up in recent weeks. Now, Om Malik of GigaOM suggests Apple has snapped up iCloud.com from its previous owner, a Swedish cloud provider called Xcerion. It’s renamed its service CloudMe and handed the iCloud domain to a mystery buyer. Well, not so mysterious actually…

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That iTunes cloud service that Apple has reportedly been set to out for what seems like forever? Well, the latest rumour is that it won’t be free. Greg Sandoval at CNET says music industry insiders have told him that Apple will introduce the iTunes cloud service for free but will kick it up to a subscription fee eventually.

The report says Apple and Google have been running parallel negotiations with the record industry for he past year in the hope that they can nail down the necessary licenses. Meanwhile, Amazon kicked out the Amazon Cloud Drive essentially daring the music industry to disagree.

Click the headline and jump into the comments to let us know: would you be willing to play for an iTunes cloud service? And what would Apple need to include to lure you in?

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The iTunes cloud rumours have been getting louder over the past few months (especially since the arrival of Amazon Cloud Drive) and now it seems Apple may have snapped up a huge chunk of data storage. The tale comes from the gloriously-focused site StorageNewsletter.com which claims Apple has bought up 12 petabytes of data from Isilon Systems…

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Amazon outed Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player overnight, bringing cloud music streaming and storage to Amazon users way ahead of an iTunes Cloud service or Google Music.

There’s no word on a UK version of Amazon Cloud Drive but the US system looks intriguing. The new Amazon Cloud Player adds a “Save to Amazon Cloud Drive” button for saving MP3s and gives you the option to throw music from your hard drive up into the cloud.

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