Patently Apple reports that Apple had acquired a number of new patents to its arsenal today. Among the 25 patents issued to the company include: A second patent for the iTunes store and its rental system, originally filed in January 2008 A fifth patent for Time Machine, covering a user interface that shows earlier versions [...]

Not satisfied with iOS? No problem, OnLive has a hefty helping of Windows waiting for you in the iTunes app store. Palo Alto announced the streaming Office app earlier this week, touting it as a no-compromise enterprise experience. The free app is fairly basic, giving iPad users hungry for a dose of Microsoft Office limited [...]

iTunes Match, Apple’s answer to the “online music locker” service, has just entered beta according to an email sent out to members of the Developer Program. iTunes Match will store users’ music libraries in iCloud, allowing anywhere/anytime access to the entire library from any device. iTunes Match is now available to US-based developers, and subscribers [...]

It seemed like Apple was poised to let iTunes in the cloud be an officially-purchased-music affair only, but the One More Thing this year was a bit of a curveball: iTunes Match. For $ 25 a year, Apple will scan your library against its catalog of tunes and give you DRM-free, 256 kbps copies of [...]

There’s been so much chatter about Apple iCloud that you’d think the streaming music service had already been announced and the deals inked. But it’s still just a rumor until an Apple executive takes the stage and unleashes the Amazon Cloud Player and Google Music competitor in a spate of superlatives. That hasn’t stopped Businessweek [...]