You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Apple’s Disappointing Music Announcements at WWDC
There was a lot of buzz prior to today’s announcements at WWDC about the deals that Apple had reportedly struck with the major record labels. Even before any Apple executives took the stage, many industry observers had crowned Apple the heir apparent to music in the cloud, decreeing that its offerings would surely trump those recently announced by Google and Amazon . But now that the dust has …

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NYC social media startup launches SoundStation, the world’s first Facebook powered music network.
With the help of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and SoundCloud, SoundStation introduces the world to a whole new way of discovering music. The intuitive social music experience provided by SoundStation allows Facebook users to see and interact with music that has been downloaded or “liked” by their friends. All songs available on SoundStation can be streamed or downloaded for free to …

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iCloud and iTunes Match: all we know so far
Apple’s new cloud service is coming this autumn, but what’s the point? Will it work on Windows, what happens to your storage … and other questions answered as best we can (updated) Steve Jobs took the stage to announce iCloud on Monday at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference. Cloud computing? From Apple? iCloud also encompasses iTunes Match, which is in effect an amnesty – 10 years after the …

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Apple’s Jobs unveils iCloud, ‘the center of your digital life’
SAN FRANCISCO – Apple CEO Steve Jobs ushered his company – and, by extension, the global computing industry – into the “cloud” era on Monday.

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Israeli inventiveness gets local spotlight
When Noam Bardin demonstrated how Waze — a Twitter-infused GPS — got him from LAX to the Luxe Hotel on Sunset in 26 minutes during rush hour, several attendees at the third annual Israel Conference immediately took out their phones to download his app.

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