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PSA: iOS 6 expected to arrive at 1PM Eastern, get your downloads ready

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iOS 6 review Passbook

Apple tends to release new iOS upgrades like clockwork, which gives us a good indicator of when it should push iOS 6 to early adopters: 1PM Eastern, or 10AM Pacific and 5PM GMT. At that point, you can likely get your turn-by-turn and Passbook fixes through at least iTunes. The real question is whether the upgrade will be available directly from an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch -- we've seen delta updates arrive over the air for iOS 5, after all, but not major OS revisions. There's only a few hours before we find out.


September 19, 2012 1:00 PM EDT

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PSA: iOS 6 expected to arrive at 1PM Eastern, get your downloads ready originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Frank Zappa music catalog now available on iTunes, could be coming soon to Spotify and Rdio

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Frank Zappa music catalog now available on iTunes, could be coming soon to Spotify and Rdio

Freak out (!), because another music legend's starting to bite the iTunes pie. With the well-documented Beatles-on-iTunes saga well behind us, it's time for the late Frank Zappa to become one of the most recent artists to join Cupertino's media repertoire. This means that there's now over 50 of Zappa's albums up for your downloading / listening pleasure inside Apple's renowned application -- some of which have been remastered, and include the likes of Absolutely Free, Uncle Meat, Hot Rats, Burnt Weeny Sandwich and, not surprisingly, the best-selling Sheik Yerbouti. That's not it, however, according to Digital Music News, Frank Zappa's full set of jams could also be headed to streaming services (such as Rdio and Spotify) sometime around October of this year -- though, at this point, nothing's been set in stone just yet. Either way, the good news is you can find the hefty catalog on iTunes as we speak, all you've got to do's give the source link below a quick tap.

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Frank Zappa music catalog now available on iTunes, could be coming soon to Spotify and Rdio originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple reportedly planning major iTunes overhaul, better iCloud integration and sharing

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Apple reportedly planning major iTunes overhaul, better iCloud integration and sharingWhile Google is beefing up its ecosystem, Apple is also planning some big changes to its iTunes platform according to Bloomberg. Sources inside the company claim, by the end of the year iTunes will undergo a major transformation seemingly designed to counter recent moves by Google. Key to the plans is iCloud. Cupertino's cloud storage solution will be much more tightly integrated, allowing easier access to and management of media collections across devices. Another part of the online offerings will be content discovery. As Netflix has already discovered, and Google is trying to master, making accurate suggestions for new music and films is key to keeping customers coming back to a media market. Deeper social network integration is also part of finding and sharing new music. Apple is supposedly in negotiations with the record labels to allow users to send songs to friends for free -- a feature both Spotify and Google Music already support. For a few more details check out the source.

Apple reportedly planning major iTunes overhaul, better iCloud integration and sharing originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple pitches data center near Reno, gambles iCloud will pay off among other puns

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Apple pitches data center near Reno, gambles iCloud will pay off

Apple data centers are popping up like spring flowers: following its North Carolina, Oregon and California plans, it's now pitching a fourth data center in Sparks, Nevada, just outside of Reno. The enigmatically named Project Jonathan hub is expected to light up before the end of the year if it's given the green light. Not surprisingly, Apple is promising jobs for the area, although the company is choosing the location for a reason: it's hoping for tax breaks on top of the advantages that previously led it to funnel some of its money through Nevada. We'll have a better idea as to the fate of the data center when Apple argues for the project on June 27th, but it's reasonable to think Apple is eager to make the Sparks location a reality. The more capacity and reliability it can build into iCloud and iTunes, the better.

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Apple pitches data center near Reno, gambles iCloud will pay off among other puns originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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