The “iCloud“, Apple’s long-rumoured iTunes cloud service, looks like it’s really coming together now with lots of well-placed whispers suggestng Warner Music and EMI have inked deals to support it with Sony and Universal poised to follow suit…
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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…
We’ve been talking about an Apple cloud service for what seems like eons but more clues have popped up that it might be seriously on the cards now. A new job posting on the Apple website calls for a “Cloud Systems Software Engineer” to come and join the gang at its One Infinite Loop HQ…
The iTunes cloud chatter has been loud and confusing recently so it’s interesting to see Bill Ngyuen, the former-CEO of LaLa, the streaming service Apple snapped up, talking about what it might do next. In an interview with Fortune, he confirms that Apple bought the company “for the people” rather than the streaming cloud service it had built.
Fortune threw the idea that Apple is working on an iTunes cloud service at Ngyuen and he suggests that the company may actually be working on a hardware and software platform for other companies like Pandora or Netflix to buy into. You can see Ngyuen talking after the break. Let us know what you make of his theory in the comments.