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While a video making the rounds today makes it seem as if Apple’s upcoming iTunes Match service will stream music from Apple’s servers to a user’s device, that’s not the case. An Apple spokesperson confirms that any music you want to access from your cloud-based “locker” will still need to be stored on your iPad, or iPhone, or whatever device you’re using to listen to the song.

The thought about why this is happening is most like due to what every company is afraid with the music industry, litigation. You have to think that maybe some things still aren’t clear with the contracts and deals made with Apple and the big boys of music. And when there is no logical explanation for it, you have to say it comes down to legal issues. Although it has been said that the music streaming rights have been acquired by Apple, so I guess you just have to blame it on the rain, I mean the design flaw that Apple will most likely fix in the future, well we hope.

There have been rumors about the iPhone 5 having a 4.2inch panel within the IT area for awhile now but following a leak from Apple’s website in Switzerland in early August, some sources from upstream panel suppliers have revealed that the iPhone 5 panel size will be less than 4 inches. It has also been noted that the iPhone’s back design will be a metal chassis instead of the reinforced glass that people are so use too. The rumored specifications of iPhone 5 include a 4- to 4.2-inch HD touch panel, 8-megapixel camera, Full HD video recording, A5 dual-core processor and new ultra-thin industrial design; however, the sources believe that the leaked specifications are rather the market’s expectations for iPhone 5. The sources pointed out that the upcoming iPhone will not have many differences compared to iPhone 4 in terms of components and the panel will still be less than 4-inch.

Apple is making some big changes already since Steve Jobs has left and here is evidence of that with the decisions made with Apple TV.
The option to rent episodes of TV shows is no longer available on either the Apple TV, or when browsing content via Apple’s iTunes application. Previously, participating networks offered users the ability to rent a TV episode for 99 cents, with 30 days to begin watching and 48 hours to complete it.

As further evidence that the ability to rent TV shows has been removed completely, an Apple support document entitled “iTunes Store: How to rent TV shows,” has been removed from the Web. A Google cache of the page is still available.

In addition, Apple’s official page promoting the Apple TV no longer makes any mention of 99-cent TV show rentals. Users are told that they can rent movies, while the page offers users the ability to “buy your favorites, instantly” for TV episodes.

Apple paved the way for the change earlier this month, when the company added the ability to buy and stream iTunes TV shows on the Apple TV. Previously, the set-top box was limited only to streaming rental options, or content that had already been purchased on a Mac or PC and was saved locally on that system.

Google purchased a company called Slide for about $200 million dollars just over a year ago and now they are dissolving it. Slide was a company that created Social apps and it is very questionable why they would be shutting down something they spent so much money on when they are doing so much stuff on Google+.
After being acquired, Slide had operated as an independent unit out of Google’s San Francisco office, maintaining existing apps like SuperPoke Pets and experimenting with new ones such as messaging app Disco and photo-sharing app Photovine, which was released only last week.

After being acquired, Slide had operated as an independent unit out of Google’s San Francisco office, maintaining existing apps like SuperPoke Pets and experimenting with new ones such as messaging app Disco and photo-sharing app Photovine, which was released only last week.

It has been issued in a press release from Apple that Steve Jobs is resigning from Apple. It has been announced that Tim Cook will now take over as CEO of the company. Who was the CEO of Apple before Steve Jobs came back. Jobs however has been elected as chairman of the board effective immediately.

“Steve’s extraordinary vision and leadership saved Apple and guided it to its position as the world’s most innovative and valuable technology company,” said Art Levinson, Chairman of Genentech, on behalf of Apple’s Board. “Steve has made countless contributions to Apple’s success, and he has attracted and inspired Apple’s immensely creative employees and world class executive team. In his new role as Chairman of the Board, Steve will continue to serve Apple with his unique insights, creativity and inspiration.”

“The Board has complete confidence that Tim is the right person to be our next CEO,” added Levinson. “Tim’s 13 years of service to Apple have been marked by outstanding performance, and he has demonstrated remarkable talent and sound judgment in everything he does.”

It is being reported that Sprint will be selling the newest Apple iphone in mid October which would give Sprit the number three spot for sure in this battle that has only really been 2 big cell markets. This also gives Apple another carrier to sell their phones. This report does seem to shed some light on when the Phone will be coming out which is later than expected from most. Many thought September was the month since the fourth quarter closes for Apple in September. The reports also say that Sprint will also carry the iPhone 4 on top of it. Richard Doherty, director of the research firm Envisioneering Group, said that the addition of the iPhone would help Sprint retain many of its customers itching to upgrade. The iPhone will also increase foot traffic in Sprint stores, which should help the company to sell high-margin iPhone accessories. “Sprint needs it,” said Mr. Doherty. “There are a lot of families that will embrace the iPhone.” It looks like Apple really wants to stick it to the droid and seems to be carried in the three major cell markets now.

It has been reported that Skype has agreed to purchase GroupMe, which is a company that developed ways for groups of people to send messages to others via multiple smart phone platforms. This is an interesting buy seeing as though Microsoft is currently in the process of buying Skype. The price tag is a modest 85 million dollars, at least that is what is being reported, a solid figure has not been released but I am certain this number is going to be fairly close. It is thought that this purchase is part of the grand scheme of the Microsoft purchase, that the purchase of group me will further help the development of the Windows phone. It is obvious Microsoft is going to work as hard as it can to get their phones straight and trying to one up Apple and Android. The thought is with the Skype purchase they will have a better face to face phone service than Apple with their facetime, which is a video chat via apple PC’s and/or iPhones. All I can say is Microsoft has a long uphill battle to win this phone war.

Now that HP is moving away from the webOS they have decided it would be a good idea to make the touchpad’s sell like hot cakes. How do you do that? Sell them for as low as $99.99. That’s right, the HP touchpad 16GB is going for $99 and the 32GB is going for $149.

In a memo sent to HP affiliates, the company issued the declaration to begin liquidating TouchPad inventories, with a price cut of $300 or more:

HP will be lowering the price of the TouchPad beginning Saturday 8/20/11. This is the lowest price ever for the TouchPad so please post it as soon as it goes live.

16GB TouchPad- $99; 32GB TouchPad – $149
This is live as of today so happy shopping people!

So it looks like HP is going off the beaten path and starting to move towards software development. HP is buying Autonomy Corp. which is a software development company. With this purchase the CEO Leo Apotheker, is trying to lessen the company’s reliance on the PC market as they feel the demand will fall closer to Apple with the iPad. They are also going to try and expand their cloud services.

“Their focus is on being more of a software and services company and not dependent on the hardware businesses,” said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at Stamford, Connecticut-based Gartner Inc. “The hardware business has become a difficult business. In many ways it’s a commodity-driven business. This is a major strategic shift for HP.”

So now we shall see what happens, will HP scrap the touchpad and just focus mainly on the software development side? What will this mean for other divisions of HP? Could we be looking at no more PC’s from HP? Lots of questions not enough answers right now.

It has been less than six months but it looks like Apple is really moving in on the phone market of Verizon. The Android share of phones sold went from 51.4% to 41.1% which shows a major shift amongst many Verizon users. Chitika Insights has shown a breakdown of the end of March in which Verizon was the biggest Android carrier. Now the newest study which is about 5 months later shows that major decrease in Verizon’s slice of the US Android pie just after the launch of the iPhone 4. This might not bold well for Android in the coming months with a new iPhone 4 and 5 coming out in the September/October. It looks like the Droid will have to make a strong push in the coming months with better phones and the ice-cream sandwich OS which should be a very special OS.