Kevin Bachus, one of the four people responsible for creating the original Xbox back in 2001, has announced a move to the advisory board of cloud-based company Savtira. He’s not the only gaming god there, so what’s in store? Read more
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Who doesn’t like free music? Google has launched Magnifier this morning, a site which embraces Music Beta and the promotion and discovery of free music. Not a bad recipe and certainly something we can stand behind. The site includes a ‘Song of the Day’ and features one-click access for adding tracks to your Music Beta library.
Magnifier, as Tim Quick head of Music Programming says, pays homage to the days when his older cousin from England would sends his friends great new records that they usually knew nothing about. Instead of waiting weeks for packages to arrive, Magnifier serves up fresh new tracks daily.
While we await Apple’s now almost-mythical iTunes Cloud service and cross our fingers that our dream of the iPod Cloud comes true, you can already get iPhone and iPad cloud streaming working! BoxyTunes, a new £0.59 iPhone and iPad app, turns your Dropbox account into a music locker and lets you stream music from it to your device.
While you can stream music from Dropbox in the standard app or access it using Safari’s built-in streaming smarts, BoxyTunes is a lot more elegant with multitasking, AirPlay support and a quick rewind button. It doesn’t support multiple playlists which is a bumber but otherwise it’s a great option until Apple pulls its finger out and gives us its vision of an iOS streaming service.
Out now | £0.59 | iTunes (via Lifehacker)
Microsoft is being a bit shy about revealing more official Windows 8 details but luckily there’s tonnes of leaks to feast on. The latest reveals yet more clues about the Windows 8 app store including a new logo which you can see on the right and lots of details lurking in code. Unlike the Mac App Store, it looks like the Windows 8 app store will include the ability to download a tiral app and then unlock a full version.
The latest Windows 8 leak also reveals new cloud settings which would allow you take your desktop profile from one computer to another and sync apps from the Windows 8 app store between PCs. There’s also intriguing references to support for 3D displays. Come on Microsoft! Tell us more about all this…
The rumours are intensifying. The trail of hints left by Apple is tantalisingly rich. If we’re reading our Apple tealeaves correctly, Jobs and Co are about to unveil the mother of all streaming services. But Apple has never launched a web service in isolation, so what new hardware do we have to look forward to? Step forward, iPod Cloud.
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…