Best Buy Co., the world’s largest consumer-electronics retailer, is expanding its U.K. online music platform to the U.S. in an attempt to challenge the cloud-based offerings from Amazon and Apple. California based Catch Media Chief Executive Officer Yaacov Ben-Yaacov said today in a phone interview with Bloomberg that Best Buy’s U.S. Music Cloud service, powered…
Apple’s recent news on its upcoming iCloud initiative highlights the momentum and excitement behind cloud services and is sure to usher in a new round of cloud offerings from others, in addition to putting focus on existing services. While many cloud services appear to offer similar functionality, it is likely that each of these seemingly…
Pandora, which lets users create their own web personalized “stations” and then makes recommendations based on users’ tastes, traded on the stock market today for the first time. With an IPO price of $16 a share and a $2.6 Billion valuation, Pandora’s stock opened today at $20 and then immediately soared to $26, an increase…
World Street Fundamentals released today its industry report which highlights Microsoft Corporation and Apple Inc. The report states that Systems Software spending will start to increase due to the growing interest in cloud computing. Thus far the Systems Software index has declined 2.6% year-to-date, while the S&P increased by 6.3%. Analysts expect revenues to increase…
The power shifted a bit in favor of publishers last week on Monday when Apple made an unannounced change on its earlier policies. Apple made a huge move when it made a 360 degree turn on the controversial rules it previously made requiring publishers to sell content in iPad and iPhone apps through the iTunes…
In today’s world of digital devices, it’s easy to find people having multiple devices. In that case, it becomes a task to keep them all in sync. For example, If I add a new contact on my phone, it should be “synced” to my laptop, or if I added a new email contact on my…
Yesterday Microsoft promoted on its blog SkyDrive which is a free cloud service that gives users access up to 25GB storage of documents, photos, and videos through the web. This news comes just after Apple introduced “iCloud” this week at the WWDC in San Francisco. iCloud is a new cloud backup, sync and storage service…
Layer 7 Technologies unveiled today its new API Portal technology, a solution that provides companies and service providers with a secure, turn-key way to manage developers creating applications against their application programming interfaces (APIs). The API portal is part of Layer 7’s API management suite which includes the Enterprise Service Manager for governing the API…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs will show off several new products today at the company’s WWDC conference in San Francisco, including Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion,” iOS 5, and “iCloud,” a new cloud-based service. We had reported extensively. The keynote begins at 1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT. Join us for a live coverage of this…
Rumors suggest that at this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco iPhone news won’t be as prominent as last year, instead attendees will sit through discussions on software; including iOS 5 and Apple’s upcoming desktop-based operating system, Mac OS X Lion. Apple hasn’t released specific details on what it has planned for the…