Monday
Jun062011

Got Mobile Me? How to transition to iCloud

Apple's Mobile Me was a useful service when it first came out as .Mac and later on iTools offering web-based email, calendar, contacts, photo storage and cloud drive but sadly faltered in its later years. Now that iCloud is coming, Mobile Me will be retired. So what can you do to transition from one cloud to the other? Here's what Apple has to say.

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Monday
Jun062011

Live: Apple's WWDC 2011 in San Francisco

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

San Francisco - We're at the Moscone centre in downtown San Francisco for Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference which kicks off this morning with a keynote presentation by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. This year's WWDC is expected to slant heavily towards software, namely the new OS X 10.7 Lion as well as the updated version of Apple's mobile iOS version 5. A third component of today's presentation is Apple's iCloud streaming service that is speculated to be a music streaming  delivery service for iOS devices and connected notebooks and desktops.

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Monday
Jun062011

The Apple Beat: Countdown to Apple's WWDC 2011


By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

San Francisco - A few hours away from the 2011 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference and expectations are running high on what the upcoming announcements  will mean for Apple and for the technology sector. iCloud, Apple's new streaming delivery service is expected to be big news, specially if it can deliver an entirely new model of content distribution to its hundreds of millions of existing iTunes users. Here's what we expect today.

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Sunday
Jun052011

iTunes offers up NBA Finals 

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Will the Miami Heat prove that you can win it all in one year as long as you get the best player in the league to take his talents to South Beach or will the determined Dallas Mavericks prove that hard work, experience and sweet-shooting 7-footers can make the difference? Whatever the outcome of this year's NBA Finals, one thing is certain, iTunes is making the games accessible as a$6.99 all-inclusive season pass or you can download each game for $1.99.  Episodes come in HD and are good to go on iPhones, iPads or iPod Touches as well as desktops and notebooks. Best of all, no annoying Sprite commercials with people exploding into liquid. As for the finals, we're for the underdogs, Dallas in 6.