Apple may be regretting letting iTunes and iPod users effortlessly skip back and forth through their playlists, having just been told by a Texas court that it’ll cost the company $8 million in damages for the ability to do so.
Apple’s payout comes after it lost a patent infringement case brought against it by a patent licensing …
Amazon just upped the ante in the cloud music wars (oh yes, that’s a thing now) by announcing some enticing new offers and features for its Cloud Drive service.
Cloud Drive, you’ll remember, is Amazon’s version of iTunes. You pay your fee and get to keep all your music on Amazon’s servers. Listening to stuff is as easy as clicking a …
I don’t know about you, but whenever I’m taking my iPhone out for a run (which happens four times a year) I’m more inclined to scroll through songs than actually, you know, move my legs. I know playlists are an option, but I’m really more of a “as the mood strikes” kind of guy, which probably explains why I can only listen to …
Google’s doing it, Amazon’s doing it, Apple will be doing it very soon now. Everyone’s putting their music in the cloud. Clouds are, it would seem, where it’s at. Indeed clouds are so happening that perhaps you might prefer to roll your own rather than use someone else’s.
Here’s one way of doing that.
Milwaukee developer John Mills …
It seems Apple’s new “iCloud” service is being threatened by a thunderstorm.
Phoenix-based iCloud Communications, a company that provides voice-over-IP and other cloud computing products and services is suing Apple over the use of the iCloud name. The company seeks monetary compensation and an injunction against Apple’s use of …
Here’s something that could either relieve a lot of tension, or increase paranoia about whether or not the world is ignoring you: If you’re a woman, there’s a strong possibility that your voice-activated car really isn’t listening to you.
Thankfully, the problem is all the car’s. According to AOL Autos, carmakers “acknowledge that …
It seems we can stop speculating about what Apple’s cloud-based online service will be called. It’ll indeed be called “iCloud,” as the company itself announced in a press release this morning.
Bundled alongside what will be showcased during a keynote address at its developers conference that starts next Monday, the company has simply …
In case you hadn’t noticed, this whole online music thing is heating up. First Amazon rolled out its Cloud Player, then Google Music came along, and now Apple is expected to announce its own online music service—the big money’s on something called “iCloud” that’ll be unveiled on June 6th.
The difference between Apple’s offering and …
Apple is a religion for its devoted fans. Admittedly, they might not actively think of their love for iPads, iPods, iMacs and everything else in those terms, but according to neuroscientists, that doesn’t necessarily matter, because their brains do.
As part of a BBC documentary Secrets of the Superbrands, journalist Alex Riley looked …
If you’re happy that Skype was purchased by Microsoft last week, Bill Gates is waiting to take all your thanks whenever you’re ready. Calling the multibillion dollar purchase “a great, great deal for Skype [and] a great deal for Microsoft,” Gates told the BBC that
Longtime fans of Apple’s iPod nano lamented a major change in its radical sixth-generation redesign: the absence of a video camera like the one present on the previous-generation model. Apple may be prepared to change that if a Taiwanese Apple blog is correct.
The current sixth-generation iPod nano was introduced last September. It …
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