The wizards at InfiniteApple, a recently-established Apple-related blog have found out that Apple's iCloud online services actually use third-party services, namely Amazon Cloud Services and Windows Azure.
If you've watched Microsoft concept videos over the years, you probably know how fond the company is of the idea of "Software Plus Services". Microsoft has always painted it as the ability to preserve local software, while still have it interact with online services in real time. While Microsoft has made quite a few achievements in that area in the past few years, isn't Apple about to nail it with iCloud?
Steve Jobs unveiled a minor upgrade to iTunes at WWDC today, iTunes 10.3. The release, currently in beta form, will allow users to take advantage of iCloud, which will become available in the fall, as well as "iTunes in the Cloud", which is available starting today.
Steve Jobs may have only finished giving his WWDC 2011 opening keynote in San Francisco just two hours ago, but those eager beavers at Apple have already published the video for our streaming pleasure.
If you're a regular reader of this site, you're probably aware that Apple's WWDC will take place next week, starting on Monday, June 6th. Apple is now dressing up the Moscone Center, a convention center where the conference will take place.
In a press, release, Apple confirmed that an iCloud service will be unveiled at WWDC on Monday, June 6th, as well as iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion, the company's next-generation computer operating system. Yes folks, no new iPhone hardware is going to be released this time around.
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