Welcome to the party, iTunes 10.5. Today, Apple released this new iteration of its popular media manager which includes several improvements along with Apple support for any devices running iOS 5. This comes in time with Apple’s iOS release tomorrow on October 12th, as the updated iTunes will be required in order for devices to sync with the upgraded iOS software. On September 30th, Apple released the iTunes 10.5 betato developersin order to progress testing with Music Match....

Apple has today released a new version of the iTunes 10.5 beta to developers. This edition ‘6.1’ supports one major new feature: Apple’s iTunes Match service, which will scan your iTunes library and match it with songs in Apple’s library, allowing you to download them to any iOS device directly or evenstream them from your library. This service was one of several major pillars of Apple’s new iCloud product that was announced at WWDC....

NPD Group, a research firm based in the United States has just revealed a study that surveyed over 10,600 people to determine how people in the U.S are consuming video online. It examines subscription streaming, video-on-demand (Internet and cable) and digital movies purchased/rented online. According to NPD’s VideoWatch Digital Tracking service, iTunes is not leading the market in the digital video space and claims despite the fact that customers believe iTunes has the most “current releases available”, they’re turning to Netflix for media, a service that accounts for 61 percent of all downloading and streaming based on NPD’s findings....

The event sold out within two hours, making WWDC the tech world’s version of a Taylor Swift concert. Today at Apple’s keynote, the “Royal Wedding for nerds,” Apple announced iTunes Match, its new music service. AlliOS devices will include“Automatic Downloading,”a simple switch that will automatically download all of your iTunes songs to your devices when purchased in the iTunes store. You can use this service to automatically download songs on up to 10 other devices, for free....

You know all about iTunes for music and apps, butiTunes Ubrings the iTunes Store to education, aimed at distributing information to learners around the world. So, an educational institution can have a single home for all its digital content. And even though it’s sitting in the shadow of its main iTunes counterpart, it transpires that iTunes U is notching up some pretty impressive figures itself. As the Loopreports, iTunes U has secured more than 600m downloads since it launched in 2007....