It seems that Apple’s iCloud service and the iTunes Store are experiencing yet another outage. Apple’s system status webpage confirms that some users may experience issues with account & sign in for iCloud as well as purchases for iTunes. Other users are also reporting problems with Game Center and Apple ID. Apple doesn’t mention how
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Real Racing 3 update to offer new cars, new events, and iCloud support
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on April 8, 2013
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Firemonkey and Electronic Arts have announced an update to Real Racing 3 that will hot iOS and Android soon. There’s going to be new cars, new events, iCloud saving functionality, and a new “Hunter” game mode. Plus, there’s going to be “many extra features and tweaks” coming to the new racing game. No release date
Apple iCloud now comes with two-step verification
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on March 21, 2013
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Two-step verification (also known as two-factor authentication) is becoming all the rage now. After the recent influx of security breaches and hacks on major services, companies are starting to implement two-step verification to prevent social engineers from gaining access to your personal data. Today, Apple is beginning to roll out its own two-step verification process
Reverse the default iCloud storage location in OS X
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on February 17, 2013
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iCloud makes its services the default location to save documents; however, there are some ways to manage this. [Read more]
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Apple’s iCloud user base grows to over 250 million
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on January 23, 2013
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The hits keep coming for the crowd in Cupertino, as the company just informed the world on its earnings call today that its iCloud platform now boasts a quarter of a billion users. This time last year, Apple’s cloud storage service had but a mere 85 million customers, but 2013 has seen that number triple to 250 million. How? We’re guessing that all those iPads and iPhones it’s sold in the last year probably have something to do with it.
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iTunes 11 launches with complete UI redesign and iCloud abundance
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on November 29, 2012
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Today a brand new iTunes app and digital content store is about to launch with a completely redesigned set of aesthetics and user interface elements. The new iTunes app works with a brand new “edge-to-edge” design with no less than custom designs for each of the content bits in your library – TV shows to
iBooks 3 rolls out with iCloud support and vertical scrolling
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on October 24, 2012
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Touted by Apple at yesterday’s iPad event, iBooks 3.0 is now available for free via the App Store. [Read more]
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Gunning for iCloud: White-Label Cloud Hub Provider, Funambol, Closes $5.75M Round To Push Global Growth
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on October 9, 2012
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White-label cloud service provider Funambol has closed a new $ 5.75m funding round aimed at speeding its global expansion. The company’s customers are already deploying its OneMediaHub personal cloud repository to millions of their users. Funambol is aiming to use this latest cash injection, along with a working capital line, to further accelerate its rate of global growth.
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Apple extends iCloud storage upgrade for MobileMe users another year
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on October 7, 2012
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Apple’s done its level best to lure help you over to iCloud from MobileMe, and it looks like it’s not quite done yet. We’re seeing reports from users who have received messages advising that the additional storage offered to ease the transition has been extended for another 12 months, sans cost to you. Whether a charge will kick in right away when that period ends, and at what price isn’t made clear. But if you like to drag your data heels, or want to take your sweet time deciding if the new service is for you, it looks like luck is on your side.
[Thanks, Jonathan C]
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Apple extends iCloud storage upgrade for MobileMe users another year originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Exploring iCloud Backup
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on October 4, 2012
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Now that we've settled into Mountain Lion, the iPhone 5, and iOS 6, it's time we devoted several minutes to a feature that's common to all of them–iCloud syncing and backup. I'm joined in that devotion by staff writer Lex Friedman who recently penned How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space, available right here on Macworld.com.
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Glitch keeps iCloud storage at 25GB until 2050
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on October 1, 2012
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Instead of a downgrade to 5GB of storage, Apple has pushed users’ renewal dates 38 years in the future. [Read more]
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iCloud: security risk?
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on August 16, 2012
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Apple's iCloud service, which was recently forced upon former-users of mac.com (including myself), has not proven to be a shiny seamless service. Many tech journos complain that iCloud doesn't represent the user-experience associated with Cupertino's decades-long tradition as a quality-brand.
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Apple Support Allowed Hackers Access To User’s iCloud Account
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on August 5, 2012
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Robadob writes “Yesterday a hacker gained access to Mat Honans (An editor at gizmodo) apple iCloud account allowing him to reset his iPhone, iPad and Macbook. He was also able to gain access to google and twitter accounts by sending password recovery emails. At the time this was believed to be down to a brute force attack, however today it has come out that the hacker used social engineering to convince apple customer support to allow him to bypass the security questions on the account.”
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Greenpeace: Apple’s energy policy has improved, still needs to remove the coal smoke from iCloud
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on July 14, 2012
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Wondering where Apple stands environmentally after the recent withdrawal (and subsequent return) of its laptops and desktops from the EPEAT rating system? Greenpeace has issued a well-timed report, outlining the company’s broader back-end energy policies. According to the organization, “Apple’s clean energy policies have significantly improved, but the company still gets low scores for its energy choices when compared with sector leaders.” Greenpeace applauds Cupertino’s commitment to goal coal-free by next year, but wonders aloud how the company will get there, noting that while it has invested in solar and other renewable energy sources, it still buys power from outlets that rely on coal. The organization also took the time to admonish Apple’s lack of transparency on its environmental plans.
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Greenpeace: Apple’s energy policy has improved, still needs to remove the coal smoke from iCloud originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iCloud service restored after morning interruption
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on June 20, 2012
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Apple says an unspecified number of users weren’t able to access iCloud earlier today, but service returned shortly after 1 p.m. PT.
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With Mountain Lion’s iCloud Integration, Apple Strengthens the Garden Wall
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on May 19, 2012
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snydeq writes “With WWDC around the corner, iOS 6 rumors are taking center stage, but the real action for developers may be around iCloud. Forthcoming OS X Mountain Lion will integrate iCloud into the formal file system, making iCloud usage much easier and thus more common, and thanks to iCloud Documents, which lets apps open and save documents directly in iCloud, developers will be able to better tap iOS-to-OSX document syncing in their apps, a la iWork. But there is a downside to this opportunity: ‘For developers, it further enmeshes you in the Apple ecosystem, almost in the way that America Online did in its heyday. Case in point: OS X apps can use the iCloud Documents APIs only if they are sold through the Mac App Store.’”
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Apple iCloud beta website shows iOS 6
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on May 11, 2012
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This week some intrepid iOS developers have discovered a new portal coming your way soon: Apple’s iCloud beta, complete with code references to the new iOS 6 mobile operating system. This climpse has not yet shown just one whole heck of a lot of information about what we’re in for in the future for Apple’s
Apple offers free OS X upgrade to prep for switch to iCloud
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on April 19, 2012
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Apple is offering Mac users a free upgrade to OS X 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard, in an attempt to prep them for the June switch from MobileMe to the newer iCloud online sync and backup service.
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Universal Studios’ films now available on iCloud, Fox still grounded
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on April 8, 2012
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Back in early March, it became clear that content from Fox and Universal Studios would be held back from being available in the all-encompassing iCloud, presumably due to the HBO release window stranglehold impacting both libraries. Today, however, the tides of change are having an impact of their own. Mac Rumors is reporting that Universal titles no longer boast the unfortunate warning that they used to, allowing iTunes users to enjoy titles from iTunes in the Cloud. Regrettably, Fox titles still exhibit the hold back, but we’re told that negotiations are ongoing to remedy that. So, movie plans back on for this evening?
Universal Studios’ films now available on iCloud, Fox still grounded originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Tweetbot for iOS updated with iCloud syncing of timelines and more across devices
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on April 7, 2012
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Nearly a year after it debuted and caught our eye as an incredibly well structured Twitter client for the iPhone, Tweetbot’s latest revision uses Apple’s cloud servers to sync the experience instead of just content. Version 2.2′s iCloud based syncing of account settings, timeline position, DMs and Mute filters lets those deep in the iLife go from iPhone to iPad or vice versa without missing a beat. The only possible fly in the ointment? The tablet and phone version are still separate apps that cost $ 2.99 each, but satisfied customers who have already ponied up can start enjoying their seamless transitions as soon as they’ve updated.
Tweetbot for iOS updated with iCloud syncing of timelines and more across devices originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apple to shutter iWork.com on July 31, moving to the iCloud
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on March 10, 2012
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Apple today announced that it will be shutting down its iWork.com document sharing service on July 31. The service was first launched in 2009 as Apple’s version of Google Docs but it has remained in beta ever since. It’s fate was sealed, however, when Apple launched the iCloud last year. If you’re currently using iWork
Fox, NBC Universal will join Apple iCloud soon
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on March 8, 2012
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Film industry sources say the two Hollywood film studios that haven’t signed on for Apple TV’s new cloud feature are hung up by contractual obligations.
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Dropbox Who? Apple Demonstrates The Simplicity Of iCloud In Latest Ad Spot
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on February 27, 2012
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iCloud just works. That’s the message of Apple’s latest commercial titled iCloud Harmony. The service took off like a rocket when it first launched late last year. Partly fueled by the massive success of the iPhone 4S, Apple claims to have more than 85 million users on the service. But as awesome as iCloud is now, it’s set to get even better and this commercial is likely just the first of a larger advertisement campaign.
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Samsung’s iCloud rival delayed after in-house service deemed ‘unsuitable’
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on February 21, 2012
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Korean newspaper ETNews is developing a reputation for bold claims, the latest being that Samsung’s “answer” to iCloud, S-Cloud has been significantly delayed. SDS, the conglomerate’s IT infrastructure division had originally been tasked to build the network, but its work was found to be “unsuitable.” After the setback, Samsung’s Media Solution Center had to enlist KT, operators of public cloud services in Korea and Amazon to help move things forward. An unnamed “cloud industry” source who spoke to the daily pointed out that one of the burdens of releasing so many (oh so many) devices is that the company has to work a lot harder to ensure all of them are compatible with any unified cloud service — but them’s the breaks, eh?
Samsung’s iCloud rival delayed after in-house service deemed ‘unsuitable’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Microsoft’s Updated SkyDrive Service Could Put iCloud To Shame
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on February 20, 2012
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Microsoft’s SkyDrive service is a serviceable cloud storage service (and one that boasts 17 million customers to boot), but it’s not something that the folks at Redmond can afford to leave in its current state. With Apple playing up their iCloud integration in their forthcoming Mountain Lion update, SkyDrive program managers Mike Torres and Omar Shahine took to the Building Windows 8 blog to outline what’s next for their own cloud service.
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Google Drive incoming to take on Dropbox and iCloud
Posted by Gsurface
on February 9, 2012
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Google is preparing to launch a cloud storage service, Google Drive, sources claim, taking on iCloud and Dropbox with free and paid accounts. Set to open for uploads “in the coming weeks or months” the WSJ‘s insiders say, Google Drive will supposedly undercut Dropbox’s paid subscription pricing, which begins at $ 10 per month for 50GB. A [...]
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Apple’s iCloud, Siri doubles iPhone 4S data consumption
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on January 6, 2012
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Owners of Apple’s new iPhone 4S consume twice as much data as iPhone 4 users, and triple that of iPhone 3GS owners, a U.K.-based network management firm said today.
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How to configure iCloud if you share an Apple ID
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on October 15, 2011
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It's fairly easy to get started with iCloud if you use a single Apple ID solely on your own devices. But many families–including mine–share a single Apple ID across multiple people and devices, so that they can purchase apps and music once and give everybody in the family access. Must you all share that same Apple ID for iCloud, too?
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No PDFs, No Co-editing On Underwhelming Apple iCloud
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on October 13, 2011
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An anonymous reader writes “Apple’s iCloud service has been a little overlooked in the bumfight for the iPhone 4S. When it was first announced some predicted it would wipe out companies like Box.net, DropBox and so on. As the NYTimes put it, “Maybe Apple will kill them all.’ Box.net’s CEO disagreed and it looks like he was right. You can’t store PDFs and images on iCloud except with PhotoStream, there’s no co-editing, and the document management interface is a shambles.”
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Apple Releases IOS 5 Software, Unveils iCloud
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on October 13, 2011
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What we still don’t know about iCloud
Posted by Gsurface
on October 10, 2011
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Apple’s cloud service launches Wednesday, but there are still many things we’re a little cloudy on ourselves.
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iCloud goes to iTunes and Lion first, iOS third
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on October 9, 2011
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It appears that the mobile ecosystem won’t be the first or even the second to get updates that will allow iCloud functionality – instead it will be Mac OS X Lion and iTunes that make the move first. Of course the difference between the three won’t be more than a day in advance of the [...]
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iCloud: What we already know
Posted by Gsurface
on October 4, 2011
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Yes, Tuesday's Apple event will almost certainly center around iOS 5 and the iPhone, as both rumors and fact have intimated. But what about Apple's other planned fall unveiling, iCloud?
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iCloud welcome email sent out early to some users
Posted by Gsurface
on October 1, 2011
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Apple has reportedly begun distributing a welcome email for its iCloud service to some users ahead of the company’s major event next Tuesday, when it’s expected to unveil the iPhone 5, iOS 5, and the iCloud. It’s not clear why certain individuals got this invitation early, but the broken link contained in the email suggests [...]
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