iTunes Cloud: deal with Sony patent for offline sync

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Apple and major music companies are making progress. A day after an agreement with EMI has also signed to Sony to provide its music to Apple's online music service announced. Working through the cloud principle: media is stored online and is also from any computer with an Internet connection away. It was to be expected, but a new patent confirms that the cloud service works from iTunes and sync. The patent raises an interesting possibility of service map.

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Google online music service to Compete with iTunes

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In turn, Google would launch its online music service. The Wall Street Journal, the Mountain View giant should make an announcement about it this evening as part of its Google I / O in San Francisco . According to financial daily, the Internet Group is expected to announce at the conference of software publishers, the launch of its Google Music Beta , which has given rise to any license agreement with record companies. The newspaper said the negotiations were never completed, and Google has apparently decided he, at least initially, to allow its customers to store their MP3 files on its servers (up to 320kbps compression) to read remotely, without paying any license or donate any royalties to record labels. To prevent piracy, it will not be possible to download music stored in the cloud.

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New Mobileme Cloud Music for $20 per Year

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According to the guys at 9to5Mac, Mobile Me , a collection of online services and software developed by Apple in 2008 , is coming to a new version. Among the many innovations that this update will bring with him, we find the " Locker ", which will allow users to iTunes to have a permanent backup of the music purchased on the store.

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