• MobileMe to iCloud Transition Is Now Available for Developers

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    Apple has just allowed MobileMe to iCloud Transition for developers through a new portal me.com/move. Now you can move your mail, Contacts and calendar to iCloud, And you can use iWeb, iDisk, and Photo Gallery up until June 30, 2012.

    Synchronization of the following will no longer be available :

    • Mac Dashboard Widgets
    • Dock Items
    • Keychains
    • Mail Accounts
    • Rules
    • Signatures
    • Smart Mailboxes
    • Preferences






    iOS devices must be running iOS 5 beta 5, Macs must be running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 Seed and iCloud for OS X Lion beta 6. PCs must be running Windows Vista or later, Outlook 2007​ or later and iCloud Control Panel for Windows beta 4.

    [Via iClarified]

  • Apple Signs Deals With Sony, EMI and Warner Group Over Cloud Music

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    Apple has reached agreements with three major record labels to let users of its new music service access their song collections from handheld devices via the Internet, as reported by Bloomberg tonight:

    The new iTunes offering will let users store content on Apple’s servers and access it using the Web, rather than loading songs into a device’s memory, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans haven’t been made public. The plans could be previewed as early as Apple’s developers conference, set to begin June 6, the people said.

    Apple has reached licensing accords with Sony music division, EMI Group and Warner Music Group, the people said. Universal Music Group, the largest recording company, is close to a deal. The company also would need to reach agreements with music publishers, which control different rights than the labels.

    Apple’s cloud music service is said to be part of a major MobileMe overhaul which said to be unveiled in WWDC this June.

  • Apple Ordered 12 Petabytes of Storage For iTunes Video Offerings

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    Citing a new reports by StorageNewsletter.com,  Apple has placed a order for about 12 petabytes of storage from Isilon Systems. According to an inside source, the company will use this storage to support iTunes video downloaded by its customers. This order will make Apple the largest Isilon’s customer.

    Apple ordered as much as 12PB of capacity from Isilon Systems, notably to manage the video download of its customers using iTunes, according to an inside source of the new division of EMC. It’s probably the largest of its 1,500 customers recorded at the end of December, including 20% in Europe

    Already several journalists have been briefed under embargo on the new releases and we will publish a deep analysis on the subject next week.

    A petabyte of data is a huge amount of data; it’s 1024 terabytes. If you tried to store a petabyte of data on dual-layer Blu-ray discs (50 GB each), it would take almost 21,000 discs to fit it all… and Apple just bought 12 of those. It’ll be interesting to see what they do with all of that storage? Maybe with the new MobileMe and a more cloud-based “locker” that stores media.

  • A New Revamped MobileMe to Launches in April along with iOS 5

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    Following to what we posted earlier, a new claim suggested that an expected MobileMe revamp will be launching ahead of WWDC, sometime next month (April). iLounge claims The new MobileMe is said to be free is may be a major departure from the current version of MobileMe:

    In addition, the source was told that Apple will be supporting the existing version of MobileMe for the next year, suggesting that the new version will be quite different from the existing service; the extra year of support would likely cover those who recently paid for a full year of MobileMe, prior to Apple removing any method through which a user could pay for the service.

    Apple is expected to hold an iOS 5 event sometime in April and this would be a perfect time to also unveil the new MobileMe. The new service is said to be more cloud-based with a “locker” that stores your media. The service will potentially even connect to your iTunes library to provide streaming to iOS devices from the cloud.