According to Reuters, Apple is getting ready to launch its cloud-based music service or digital music locker, which will allow users to upload their music to Apple ’s servers so that they can access them from various devices.
Reuters reports that Apple has “completed work” on the rumored cloud-based service and is set to launch it ahead of Google.
Apple Inc has completed work on an online music storage service and is set to launch it ahead of (more…)

We had heard some rumors that Amazon was planning to release its own digital locker but it surprised us by launching cloud-based services and probably shocked competitors like Apple and Google, who are also rumored to be working on launching similar cloud-based services.
Amazon Cloud Drive will allows users to store music and other digital content like photos, videos and documents in the cloud.
Amazon has also launched Amazon Cloud Player for (more…)

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, Apple will also debut its long rumored cloud-based MobileMe service, which will allow users to upload their music, TV shows and movies to Apple ’s servers so that they can access them from various devices.
The Apple staffer, who asked to remain anonymous for obvious reasons, said the new MobileMe service will store music, TV shows, and films that were purchased from the iTunes store. The staffer also said that there was talk inside Apple (more…)

mSpot, the cloud based music streaming service has been around for quite some time now. The service, which was released back in June 2010 allows users to store their music online and listen to it anywhere, anytime including on their mobile devices.
Until yesterday, it only supported Android based smartphones and tablets. Earlier today, however, they announced that mSpot is available for 
and above. 
Owners of all these devices will now be (more…)

It is still not clear what this 'iTunes Live Stream' service will include. Macrumors reports:
[..]speculation ranging from live streaming of existing television content to something more along the lines of user-generated streams of live video or audio content.
Apple has been testing some aspects of live video streaming in recent months, rolling out its own HTTP Live Streaming technology based on open standards to deliver live video of (more…)

While this feature has existed for over a month now, a number of bloggers have now started wondering if this could be Cupertino's latest leap towards the launch of an
. In a recent article on
, blogger Brian Barrett writes:
“Well this was unexpected: Apple has quietly enabled its devices to stream music to iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches from online storage through iDisk. It's the very next-best thing to putting iTunes in the cloud.”
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, Steve Jobs might make an announcement during the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2010 next month. The new service will make storage space on the users' device irrelevant by moving all the purchased content to the cloud.
“Purportedly, the service would allow iTunes shoppers to build up a digital video collection (music, movies, TV shows, etc.) without having to worry about the intensive storage space involved. iTunes Replay would, per (more…)

However, according to sources that Peter Kafka from
spoke to, a web-based iTunes may not be coming anytime soon.
According to Kafka,one of the primary reasons is over pricing issues. Apple is learnt to be working on a cloud based ”
” service from where users can stream the content they own on to multiple devices. Record labels are apparently demanding a higher price on content since they argue that streaming songs across multiple devices should (more…)

, Apple has been talking to major movie studios in Hollywood over letting users store their movies and TV shows on Apple 's servers thereby letting them access the stored content from a plethora of devices including the iPhone and iPad. The idea, it is said, is to make the devices' hard drive disk space irrelevant by moving all the content the user owns out into the cloud. According to observers, this will help to increase content-purchase (more…)

However, Michael Robertson, the former CEO of MP3.com who is currently with MP3Tunes says Apple has a much bigger agenda on its list. According to him, Apple 's acquisition of Lala is the first step in moving towards a cloud music service where all of the users' existing library of content would reside online and which can be accessed from anywhere using any of Apple 's devices -
,
,
, Apple TV, etc.
Robertson claims that one of (more…)