Motorola Wins Injunction against iCloud, No More 3G Devices in German Online Apple Stores (UPDATED)

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Yesterday morning, Germany’s Mannheim Regional Court passed a permanent judgment in favor of Motorola, hence stripping off one of the very important services offered by iCloud. Motorola has won a ruling (that was filed in April 2011) against iCloud’s data pushing services and any devices that use it (except iPhone 4S). The copyright covered “multiple pager status synchronization system and method”. As Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents says, the suit is not applicable to Apple all over Europe, but in…

Motorola Files Lawsuit against Apple, iCloud and iPhone 4S Targeted this Time

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Apple has been charged of infringing patents once again! Seriously! What is up with it? Well, this time it isn’t Samsung that is bugging Apple, its Motorola Mobility! It added one more member to the series of unending legal battles between Apple and Android manufacturers yesterday. The filed lawsuit (in Southern District of Korea) includes six patents against Apple’s iPhone 4S and iCloud. To be noticed, all of these have been cited in Moto’s complaint against Apple in 2010 (in…

Scammers Targeting iCloud Users, Phishing Attacks on MobileMe Users!

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In an electronic communication, phishing is one of the ways of getting private information (log-in credentials like username and password) by disguising as a trustworthy source. Via emails (showing Apple as the sender), scammers are asking sensitive information from MobileMe Account holders. Email contains a message which threatens users that if they do not respond to it soon, their MobileMe account will be dissolved. However, as the language of email’s content (in English) has several grammatical mistakes, receivers can easily…

Apple Hunting for iCloud Application Developers!

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Apple is in search of developers that have an expertise in building iCloud application. What does it mean? Well, this for sure means that the company is planning to expand its iCloud based services with better applications that can make use of server-based technologies that it offers, to the maximum extent. A recent job post on Apple’s website says that the company is in hunt for “proactive, creative-minded engineers to build the next generation of cocoa-based client applications that integrate…

Apple to Expand Cloud Services, Recruiting Senior-Level Executives

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A report from The Wall Street Journal says that Apple is in search of senior-level executives having expertise and experience in web-based software. In fact, in the beginning of this year, Apple approached one the top notch Internet entrepreneur about a vacant post, and is in search of a recruitment firm that could find a solid talent for it, says WSJ. The hired executive will be working on new web-based applications and services that would exploit and bring out maximum…

New Version of iTunes Launched, Includes iTunes Match

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In a latest development Apple has started its iTunes Match service for iTunes. The Cupertino company was to come up with it two weeks ago but finally here it is. It is an amazing feature that promises to match every song on a user’s personal computer and bring every song, that couldn’t be found, from iTunes Store to the iTunes Library. On its own! So you can play its music on any of the iOS device. The place it stores…

Why Didn’t Apple Launch iTunes Match Service in October?

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Apple had officially announced at its “Lets talk iPhone” event that iTunes Match service would come soon in USA. But as opposed to what was planned things got delayed. After the delay of iPhone itself the supporter feature iTunes Match also called it off! It was supposed to come out by the end of October as its hold up had already been built into iTunes 10.5 (an element of iOS 5 and Cloud) for release in mid-October. But with the…

Apple has started training retail employees on iOS 5 and iCloud

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Apple is reportedly launching the new operating system iOS 5 publically in mid October is kind of stale news now, this rumour started months ago. But, what we heard latest will definitely interest you, there are reports claiming that Apple is training its employees on iOS 5 and iCloud. This report truly hints at October release of the new operating system with iCloud. There is lot of excitement in market regarding iOS 5, the tech giant has claimed that it…

iCloud, iOS 5 and OS X Lion : State of the betas

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Apple started this quarter giving huge expectations to users with its latest operating system, iOS 5. With the little introduction we have of the system, it is safe to assume that the surprise is going to be very pleasant for Apple users. The induction of iCloud and iOS 5 in its devices will surely work in its favour, Apple surely is going to capture the technology market for a while. Yeah, I know I am forgetting Mac OS X but…

Confusion in iCloud Streaming Remains with the iOS 5 Beta Release

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iCloud is a cloud computing service by Apple and is a successor to MobileMe. It helps users to store data in server and download it to devices as iPad, iPod and iPhone. It also helps in data synchronisation and by data I mean all the data as in mail, bookmarks, to-do list, contacts, calendar etc. The first official announcement about iCloud came in this year on Worldwide developers Conference (WWDC). Apple is introducing the latest version of its operating system…