It’s official, Skype will support video calling on iPad 2 very soon. According to CNET, a Skype iPad application will be released to the App Store on Tuesday, June 28. A video of Skype’s iPad app was first posted on Skype’s official channel and then removed. Thankfully RazorianFly has the original video and it can be seen on their YouTube channel.

CNET got a chance to try out video calling on the Skype for iPad app, and has posted a hands on gallery of it. Skype for iPad will work on both iPad 1 and iPad 2, however only iPad 2 users can broadcast video because of the front-facing camera.

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A few days ago, Apple officially announced the beta release of its new iCloud cloud-storage service at the WWDC 2011 Keynote.  The iCloud will give almost instant access to your music, apps, latest photos, and more. The iCloud service is free and has already launched in developer beta today.

While the beta version of Apple’s new iCloud became available almost instantly, many iPhone owners were able to get hold of the iCloud on any iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, PC, and their iPhones with the latest version of Apple’s software.

AT&T iPhone customers had got the latest version of the iPhone software in March along with three minor updates running on iOS version 4.3.3 now. However, Verizon iPhone customers have yet to get the latest version of the iPhone software- as they are still running on version 4.2.8.

As of now, it is not clear why Verizon customers are left behind with this delay.  But for Verizon customers with the iPhone 4, you’ll have to wait at least for a while before getting a hold of the iCloud.

The official Version of the iCloud, cloud-storage service will be releasing this fall.

1. WWDC 2011: iCloud & More!
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At the WWDC 2011 Keynote, the enigmatic iCloud was finally unveiled to all attending the keynote conference. Steve Jobs climbed back on stage to reveal the iCloud.

He said, “I’m going to talk about iCloud. We’ve been working on this for some time now, and I’m really excited about it.”

What exactly is iCloud? Well, iCloud is a way to  ”seamlessly integrated into your apps, so you can access your content on all your device”

Before talking about the iCloud, Steve began by recalling how many years ago the PC was becoming the digital hub for one’s digital life.  Digital photos, digital videos, music. It worked for the better part of 10 years. But it has broken down in the past few years.

“iCloud stores your content in the cloud and wirelessly pushes it to all your device. It automatically uploads it, stores it, and pushes it to all your devices.”

Since it is integrated with all your apps, everything happens automatically. The iCloud can also work on the MobileMe apps since they have been re-written from the “ground up”.

The contacts that are added in any device are pushed to the cloud and then sync’d down to all the other devices.

The calendars work the same way-one can make a new calendar, edit it, and it is  all pushed to the cloud. Calendar sharing is now added as well.

“Mail was in the best shape of all, but it’s even better.” Get an @me.com account and all your messages are sync’d and pushed across.

Steve Jobs also confirmed that there are no ads. He said, “We build products that we use too, and we just don’t want ads.”

With iCloud, you will be able to store all you content so it is always accessible from your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, or PC. It will give you almost instant access to your music, apps, latest photos, and more. Furthermore it will also keep your email, contacts, and calendars up to date across all your devices. There is no syncing required. And no management required. “In fact, no anything required. iCloud does it all for you.

“iCloud will be free! And it is launching in developer beta today!

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2. WWDC 2011 Announcement Live Coverage Recap: Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud
3. WWDC 2011 Keynote: IOS 5 & More

Steve Jobs started the Worldwide Developers conference by announcing the iOS statistics. After Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller took the stage and announced details on the Mac OS X Lion operating system.

Scott Forstall announced details on the iOS 5 software update which will be released in fall. Once Scott was done, Steve Jobs went back on stage and announced details on iCloud. The WWDC is still ongoing, so stay tuned. We’ll let you know if Steve Jobs does end up announcing the rumored iPhone 5 that many sites have speculated on.

1. WWDC 2011 Announcement Live Coverage Recap: Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud
2. WWDC 2011 Live Keynote and Video Stream Announcement Online
3. WWDC 2011 Live Update: iOS 5 Release Date Announced

• iPhone 4
• iPhoe 3GS
• iPod touch 4th gen
• iPod touch 3rd gen
• iPad 2
• iPad 1

Developers will be able to download a seed of iOS 5 from the iOS Dev Center some time today. You can check more details on our WWDC 2011 Live Coverage:  iOS 5 page.

1. WWDC 2011 Announcement Live Coverage Recap: Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud
2. WWDC 2011 Live Keynote and Video Stream Announcement Online
3. WWDC 2011 Live: No iPhone 5 Announcement

• 200 million iOS devices have been sold to date
• iOS is the #1 mobile operating system with 44% market
• More than 425,000 apps are on the App Store now
• 14 billion Apps have been downloaded in less than 3 years
• Apple has paid out more than $2.5 billion to developers

iOS 5 is also being announced, we will be covering the details on that. Stay tuned!

1. WWDC 2011 Live: No iPhone 5 Announcement
2. WWDC 2011 Announcement Live Coverage Recap: Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud
3. WWDC 2011 Live Keynote and Video Stream Announcement Online

To talk more about the IOS 5, Scott Forstall enters the stage. In reference to the iPad 2, Scott Forstall says, ”It is an amazing product, and our customers just couldn’t wait to get their hands on it… actually they did have to wait.”

“More than 15 billion songs have been sold through the iTunes Music Store, making it the #1 retailer of music in the world.”

Forstall also explains that Apple has paid out more than $2.5 billion to developers — big check signed by Steve Jobs on the screen.

Now, getting to the IOS 5, ”iOS 5 is a major release. This is incredible for our developers and our customers.”

The first new feature discussed is Notifications. We’re looking at the current notifications, the annoying pop-ups that have been “massively popular.” More than 100 billion have been pushed so far! The notification center aggregates all the notifications. It is accessed by swiping down from the top. Notifications will no longer be interrupted with the activity on the ios.

The next new feature on the IOS 5 is the Newsstand. Scott Forstall says,  ”Recently we added subscriptions, which makes it easier to get all the new issues without missing anything.” When you have purchased your news publications, they are automatically downloaded and placed on the Newsstand. It is integrated on the home screen making it look like a news stand.

Furthermore, the new issues are automatically downloaded in the background, and also available to users offline.

The third new feature discussed in the Keynote is TWITTER! ”We want to make it even easier for all our customers to use Twitter on all their iOS products.” There is a single sign-on and you’re configured for Twitter. Those credentials are then saved and there will be no need to sign in again and again. Twitter photos and the @ usernames can also be pulled automatically into contacts.

Twitter can also be integrated with many apps, including Camera and Photos. Just tap the action button, hit “Tweet” and it’s attached. “It’s that simple.”

Another great featured added in IOS 5 is TABBED BROWSING!

“It is lightning fast to switch between windows now.” You just have to tap one of the tabs and -boom, your there.

Reading List is another feature, you can save publications (just like bookmarking them) in a reading list for later reading.

Another feature, Reminders allows users to store lists of things and assign them to any dates, plus you can also assign a location. It’ll sync across devices, and with Cal.

The iPhone 4 camera is one of the best cameras on mobile, now there is a Camera button on the lock screen. Once you tap  on the camera icon and you’re right in the Camera app, ready to take a photo. 

When you click on the photo icon, it will immediately take you to the photo and you can click as many photos without having to slide the lock key or enter a pass code if you’ve sent one up. Additionally, you can also use the volume button to take a picture now! You can also pinch to zoom  right in the app.

Pictures can also be edited on the ios 5 now. You can crop, rotate, reduce red-eye, and you can do a one click enhance.

Many changes are brought to Mail in IOS 5 now as well. Rich-text formatting, indentation control, draggable addresses (from To: to Cc: or Bcc:), flagging so you can mark them as unread, and now you can search the entire contents of messages. S/MIME is being added as well, for the security mavens. Furthermore, there is also an addition of a built-in dictionary that’s a service across the OS. “All apps from the App Store can use it.”

Next up is the Game Center. ”iOS is the most popular gaming platform on the planet. There are more than 100,000 game and entertainment titles in the App Store.” Games can be purchased and dowloaded directly from the game center. You can also see what scores your friends earned in what game and compete with them.

“In just 9 months we have 50 million Game Center users. To put that into perspective Xbox Live has been around for about eight years and they have around 30 million users.”

Next feature: iMessage

“I believe we have the best messaging client on the iPhone. It works tremendously well to send text messages and photos and our customers love it — our iPhone users. But what about our iPad users, and our iPod touch users?”

With iMesssage, users are able to send text messages, photos, videos, contacts, and even do group messaging. For example, one can start a convo on your iPhone and pick it up on your iPad, or the reverse if you’re into that.

“iOS 5 will ship to all of our customers this fall.”

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After that Steve Jobs said that today’s announcement would talk about Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud.

Phil Schiller took over the stage and demoed Apple’s new Mac OS X Lion operating system and announced some Mac statistics. Below are the details of what Phil Schiller announced:

• Over 54 million active Mac users around the world.
• 73% of Macs sold are laptops.
• Mac OS X Lion will have over 250 new features.
• Mac OS X Lion has Multi-touch gesture.
• Mac OS X Lion will have full-screen applications.
• Mission Control opens up a birds eye view of everything you’re on.

Stay tuned, we will be covering WWDC 2011 announcements live. You can watch WWDC 2011 live stream video online as well.

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3. WWDC 2011 Live Keynote and Video Stream Announcement Online

Steve Jobs hit the stage exclaiming all 5,200 attendees who were at the Keynote and tickets that had sold out in less than 2 hours.

Steve Jobs said that there a a few things we should talk about including the  ”OS X Lion, iOS 5, and some kind of interesting new cloud stuff.”"

While Steve Jobs is on stage, he explains how the Macs have been doing extremely well over the years and how sales are almost 3/4 notebooks at this point, far outpacing desktop sales

Phil Schiller goes up on stage to explain more about the OS X Lion. Phil explains that the OS X Lion is “a major release with over 250 new features. If you’d like we can go over every one of them today.”

Phil shows an amazing feature of the OS X Lion that includes Multi-Touch He shows the multi-touch tap-to-zoom, pinching, two-finger swiping- “all with an incredible, physical realism that’s never been possible in a PC operating system before.”

Next up, Phil shows full screen applications.

With OS X Lion,  developers will be able to make their apps run in full-screen more easily.

Phil shows through Safari, iMovie, and dozens of other standard apps. Phil also shows a feature known as Mission Control. With Mission Control, you are able to see all your apps and all the documents you’re working on. And you can get to all your spaces up top, multiple views of apps, and you can get to all your widgets on the upper-left.

According to Phil, “It’s almost like task-switching in WebOS or QNX on the BlackBerry PlayBook, if you’re familiar with those”.

At the WWDC Keynote 2011, Phil is back with the mac app store saying  ”you can get your software right from the comfort of your home on your Mac.”

The Mac App Store is now the e #1 channel for buying PC software. It’s ahead of Best Buy, Walmart, and Office Depot. The App Store is now built-in to Lion. They are also adding in-app purchases, push notifications, and a built-in sandboxing mode to boost security is also added.

Resume is another feature included in the OS X Lion. Phil states, “Now when you launch an application in Lion it brings you right back to where you left off.” This includes windows, selections, tools, and also  highlighted text that appear the same way as left them.

Autosave is another great  feature included in the OS X Lion. ”The one time you might forget to save what you’re doing, something goes wrong… Why can’t the computer help you? That’s what Lion does.” Lion will automatically save the document for you without you having to do anything.

Phil further explains ”A completely new version of Mail in Lion. It’s beautiful.” In the new version of Mail in Lion there are two or three-column view, snippets on the left, and a favorites bar to get to your hottest folders.

The OS X Lion will be available to all Mac users in July for only $29.99- right from the Mac App Store. 

1. WWDC 2011 Announcement Live Coverage Recap: Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud
2. WWDC 2011 Live: No iPhone 5 Announcement
3. Watch WWDC 2011 Live Stream

Apple has already released a press release that states what they will announce in WWDC 2011. The iOS 5 software, Mac OS X Lion operating system, and iCloud are the products that will be announced. Apple may also be announcing the new iPhone 5 hardware too.

Watch WWDC 2011 Live Keynote Online

If you want to watch WWDC 2011 live keynote online, the following websites will be covering it:

• Tech Crunch
• Mac Rumors
• Engadget

Watch WWDC 2011 Live Video Stream Online

You can watch WWDC 2011 Live Video stream online in the below embed. Apple will release an official high quality video on their website after the keynote ends so if you miss it don’t worry!

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2. Watch WWDC 2011 Live Stream
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