Hello iCloud The big thing this week was of course the Apple WWDC and the official unveiling of the iCloud. Examined from a macro perspective it seems clear that Apple tries hard to stay true to the user centric approach that have made Apple what it is today. “It just works”, said Jobs repeatedly during [...]

FaceSpot? Facebook and Spotify partner up – rumours say The story that caused the most buzz this week was the rumour that Spotify and Facebook are to launch a music service together. The origin of the rumour was a piece in Forbes written by Parmy Olsen. Olsen writes that the service “could be launched in [...]

Apple closing in on the cloud Mashable reports that Apple has signed a licensing deal with EMI for their upcoming cloud music service. As Apple already has a deal in place with Warner, and rumours say that Sony and Universal are to be onboard soon, the music giant might just announce the launch of their [...]

Google Music now in live beta The biggest news this week was the Google unveiling of their music cloud service. Just like Amazon’s Cloud Player, the Google service is launched without the backing of any label deals. The Amazon and Google Music services works in similar ways. What you get is a place in the cloud [...]

Spotify opens download store and syncs with your iPod. Spotify has been all over the digital music news this week, and for good reason. The most recent update to the platform is huge. Here’s a break down: A new a la carte download store – Built in-house, covering the whole Spotify catalogue Wireless syncing with [...]

Apple trumps Google in race to the cloud According to wide spread rumours, Apple has now secured licensing deals with two of the four major labels in support of their upcoming cloud service. Sources say that deals with the remaining two are not far behind. As you know, Amazon went ahead and launched their cloud [...]