iTunes Match beta testing has now been expanded to additional developers in the United States. iTunes Match stores your music library in iCloud and allows you to enjoy your collection from anywhere, any time, on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or computer. Any of your songs, including music you've imported from CDs, that matches with the 18 million songs in the iTunes Store will become available in iCloud and will play back at iTunes Plus quality (256 Kbps DRM-free AAC) — even if your original was of a lower quality.
iTunes Match is a new service that Apple had unveiled along with iOS 5 and iCloud at the WWDC 2011 Keynote address in June. It allows users to store their entire music collection (up to 25,000 songs), including songs that they've ripped from CDs or purchased from anywhere else in iCloud.Apple is widely expected to release iOS 5 along with Mac OS X 10.7.2, iTunes 10.5 and iWork for iOS couple of days before or along with iPhone 5 launch, which is expected in the first half of October.
If you reached this article searching for some of the best Wi-Fi Finder App for iPhone or Android, then its your lucky day. Admit it or not, it’s official: we’re addicted to smartphones. One of the most common uses of our mobiles is to surf the web, download apps, send emails and update social networking sites. If you look carefully you’ll notice that all of these popular activities need an internet connection.
Nearly all smartphones, particularly more recent ones, have the ability to connect to a Wi-Fi network such as a public hot spot or even a home internet connection. However, the problem arises when you need to access the internet but there’s no Wi-Fi connection within range – what do you do?There are several apps available from app stores on Android and iOS that can help you access the internet when you need it most, whether they turn your mobile into a modem or guide you to the nearest hotspot.
JiWire Wi-Fi Finder This app does pretty much what it says on the tin – it finds Wi-Fi connections. There are nearly half a million Wi-Fi hotspots around the world, yet when you need one, you can never find one.The Wi-Fi Finder app allows you to search for free and paid hotspots that are in your area, call the location, and even get directions to it. Available for free on Android and iPhone.
The hacker who calls himself "Comodohacker" said this week that he could have used digital certificates stolen from a Dutch firm to issue fake updates to Windows PCs. If Comodohacker's assertion is accurate, he would have been able to push malware to Windows machines via the operating system's Windows Update service. Microsoft said that was impossible.
Comodohacker, who claims to be a 21-year-old Iranian, has taken credit for several attacks against certificate authorities, or CAs, the organizations and companies authorized to issue SSL (secure socket layer) certificates. In two of those attacks -- of Comodo in March and more recently of DigiNotar -- certificates were fraudulently generated. Among the 531 certificates stolen in the hack of Dutch-based DigiNotar were several that could be used to impersonate Microsoft's update services.
Comodohacker said he could exploit those certificates. "I'm able to issue Windows update[s]," Comodohacker claimed in one of several statements he has posted this week on Pastebin. "Microsoft's statement about Windows Update and that I can't issue such update is totally false!" Last weekend, Microsoft said that the certificates stolen from DigiNotar weren't enough to deliver actual updates.
Amazon is considering the launch of a subscription service for e-books and is currently in talks with book publishers, a Wall Street Journal report said on Sunday.According to the report, “people familiar with the matter” describe Amazon’s plan as “a Netflix Inc.-like service for digital books, in which customers would pay an annual fee to access a library of content.” Users would be able to download content to their computer, smartphone device and tablet.
It’s not certain how much progress has been made with the talks, the source said. Also, it seems that not everyone is behind the proposed service, with some publishing executives worried it might “lower the value of books and because it could strain their relationships with other retailers that sell their books.” The WSJ report says that the online retail giant would begin with a digital library of older books. The service would be rolled out to Amazon Prime customers, who currently fork out $79 a year for fast shipping, as well as access to a digital library of thousands of movies and TV shows, which can be streamed to a computer or mobile device. The plan is to offer a limited number of free e-book downloads per month.
