iTunes 10.5 available now

By George Wong on 10/11/2011, filed in Home > Apple

iTunes 10.5 available now In preparation for the release of iOS 5 tomorrow, like clockwork – Apple has issued the update to iTunes to bring it up to version 10.5. The update brings some new features to the iOS device-syncing app that will make it work with iOS 5. iTunes 10.5 introduces iCloud, automatic downloads, the ability to download previous music, TV, app and book purchases again at no additional cost (though some purchases might not be available due to them being removed from the Store).

iTunes 10.5 also introduces WiFi-syncing (hurray!) which finally eliminates the needs for cables. iOS devices can automatically sync with iTunes every time they’re on the same network. Download iTunes 10.5 from the Apple website, or follow the instructions in the Apple software updater. Excited for iOS 5 tomorrow?

Apple Inc: Apple Inc was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne as a computer company wich is often credited to have initiated personal computing. After a meteoric rise in the 80s, Apple had lost the personal computing battle against Microsoft and others in the 90s. But in the late 90s and early 2000s, the company came back to profitability by focusing on less products and started using industry-standard components. Apple's largest business is now in the smartphone space, with the iPhone representing more than half of the revenues and an even larger part of the profits. Read our Apple product reviews to see what the company has been up to: iPhone 5 Review, Macbook Pro with Retina display review

iOS: was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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