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CNet reports that Apple’s plans for cloud computing could go well beyond music. Apple is said to have been in negotiations with some of the major film studios to offer streaming video service to users. <…

Washington based MPN, LLC has announced the latest 73-page February 2010 issue of the macCompanion magazine is now available online and as a PDF. A plea for support for Haitians who survived the January quakes and what msy have been the causes and motivations of those quakes. A plea to help Gene Steinberg as well. More on power user features of C++. The iPad comes forth and naming it becomes an issue for everybody but Apple. The Bluetooth i.Carkit is reviewed as well as QuickAccessCM.

Washington based MPN, LLC has announced the latest 102-page January 2010 issue of the macCompanion magazine is now available online and as a PDF. Looked at in this issue are 3D Fractals on the Mac and Remote Control on the iPhone, Codex Alimentarius and Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports and the story of money. There is more on C++ series on programming and prognostications for 2010. Apple apps discussed are DejaMenu, Fasticns, Google Quick Search and the MacAmazon browser.

UK based Will Evans Apps is proud to announce the release of MW2 Companion 1.0, a collection of Call Of Duty phrases for iPhone and iPod Touch. In MW2 Companion, listen to the popular Call Of Duty phrases through your iPhone or iPod Touch and share with friends. This is Will’s fourth application release after Stick Death Clips, Stick Suicides! and Bad Breath Detector.

The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) on comments made today by AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson at an investor conference in which he noted that he expects Apple’s iPhone to be an important …

Mooomi has released Power Inventory 1.0.1 for iPhone and iPod touch. Power Inventory helps you manage the inventory of any object, using a subdivision by categories and locations. You can also keep track of loans and repairs for every item and get a quick reminder from the application icon badge. You have so many things around and would like to put some order. Power Inventory is the application for you.

Adelante Consulting Inc. is pleased to announce the release of The Plant Doctor 1.0, their new app for iPhone and iPod touch devices. The Plant Doctor provides interactive diagnosis and cost-effective management recommendations for plant diseases in gardens, landscapes, nurseries and farms. The app collects user-supplied information about the problem and sends it to a professional plant pathologist with a Ph.D. and more than 20 years of experience in the science.

David Wooldridge, author of the newly released “The Business of iPhone App Development: Making and Marketing Apps that Succeed,” offers some questions directed to iPhone app developers. These questions are a great place for developers to start considering marketing during the app development process. Without marketing to gain the necessary publicity and exposure, a killer app may simply get lost in the relentless stream that floods the App Store on a daily basis.

While much has been made of Apple’s negotiations with book publishers to bring their content to the company’s iBookstore for distribution to the iPad, little news has surfaced about Apple’s plans to extend the iBookstore beyond the United Sta…

TickleSpace has released Deep Stuff – Facts and Quotes Pro for the iPhone and iPod touch. Deep Stuff – Facts and Quotes Pro provides a daily dose of interesting facts, quotes, famous birthdays and historical events with an elegant, simple and intuitive interface. Thousands of quotes and facts to surprise, amuse, inspire and share that little bit of wisdom. TickleSpace has chosen to abandon using ads in its apps until a solution that provides control over what ads are shown becomes available.