What Apple's iCloud Means For You

If you own any Apple device, it's likely you own multiple computing devices – one or more Apple portable gadgets such as an iPhone, an iPad or an iPod Touch, and a desktop or laptop PC. And it's also likely you have some content on one of these portable devices – photos, music, documents, email, et al – that'd you'd like to access on all your Apple portable devices and PCs. Apple's iCloud service, announced this morning (June 6), not only solves this one-to-one content/device relationship problem, but establishes a new way of thinking about where your content is stored and how you access it. The idea is your content and personal data need not be trapped on whatever device it was created or purchased on. If you snap a photo on your iPhone,...

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New iPhone 5, iPad 3 Coming Soon?

Thinking of buying a new iPhone 4 or buying your first iPad? Wait. The latest rumors have Apple unveiling its long-rumored iPhone 5 in mid-August at the earliest, sometime in September at the latest. A month later, there may be a next-generation iPad 3. And all will run the new Apple mobile operating system, iOS 5, which you can read more about in "What Apple's iCloud Means For You." To 4G or not to 4G? Here's what the Apple cognoscenti doesn't know about the iPhone 5: whether or not it will connect to super-speedy 4G data cell networks for faster Web browsing, faster app loading and operating, and faster uploads and downloads. As you might know, there are two different types of 4G an iPhone 5 could access. There's LTE (which stands for...

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