Apple has opened the doors to its iTunes Match service. For $24.99 per year, users can synchronize their digital music collection with Apple’s iCloud service. What that means is that you don’t need to upload your entire digital music collection to the cloud. Just download iTunes 10.5.1 on your Windows or Mac computer and it will scan your music and figure out if there’s already… Read more »

Winamp has rolled out three major updates to its music player for Android. First, the free app has been upgraded to version 1.2. Second, there’s a new Pro version with additional features. And third, there’s now a utility that lets Mac users sync their music Winamp and iTunes on their computers. Winamp 1.2 In order to use the new Mac synchronization features you’ll need to… Read more »

Apple is set to release iOS 5 on October 12th. The update will bring a whole slew of new features to iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users, including an improved notification system, support for the new iCloud synchronization service, and the ability to download future updates over-the-air without connecting to iTunes. But if you want to move from iOS 4 to iOS 5, you’ll need… Read more »

The Windows Phone Marketplace is expanding at a pretty decent clip. While there aren’t nearly as many third party apps available for Windows Phone 7 as for Android or iOS yet, there are more than 25,000 apps in the Marketplace according to windowsphoneapplist. That number may be a little off, since other trackers have different figures. But WinRumors notes that it was just a few… Read more »

Apple iOS 5 offers a number of killer new features including wireless synchronization, improved notifications, and web browser and camera improvements. Unfortunately the software isn’t really ready for public consumption just yet. But plenty of folks are trying out the beta, either by having signed up for developer accounts or by getting access to developer tools through some slightly shadier methods. Long story short, while… Read more »

Apple has rolled out two major changes to its iBooks digital book platform this week. First the company added an iBooks section to iTunes, allowing you to purchase and download books from your computer the same way you would for apps, music, and movies. Second, the company has rolled out iBooks 1.3 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It’s available as a . The big… Read more »

Apple won’t fully roll out its new iCloud service until this fall, but the company is already allowing users to upload their music collections to iCloud. And this afternoon the company rolled out another piece of the puzzle. If you’re using multiple iOS devices you can now go into the “Store” section in the Settings menu to enable Automatic Downloads. This allows you to automatically… Read more »

Update: Automatic Downloads are live… and they’re not quite what we expected. Instead of allowing you to update software automatically, the service lets you synchronize music, book, and app purchases across multiple iOS devices. Buy a song on your iPod touch and it will automatically be downloaded on your iPad as well. Apple may have beat Google to providing an “update all” button in the… Read more »

I can’t decide if this is funny or not… but it probably is. Apple sued Amazon a few months ago, claiming the the Amazon Appstore for Android infringed on Apple’s trademark for the term “App Store.” Part of Amazon’s defense is that the term is pretty generic, since it describes a store… that sells apps. But in a legal document filed yesterday, Apple claims otherwise…. Read more »

Apple has released a minor update for iTunes that should improve synchronization with an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. iTunes 10.2.2 fixes a problem that sometimes caused the software to become unresponsive when syncing an iPad. It also addresses an issue which caused photo synchronization to take longer than it should have. The latest update also fixes a problem with video previews in the iTunes… Read more »