Apple extends MobileMe 20GB storage through September 30

7187updated 09:52 pm EDT, Sat May 5, 2012 Apple entices transitions to iCloud

Apple's effort to complete its sunsetting of MobileMe continued today, with the company quietly announcing an extension of its offer to MobileMe users of 20GB of free storage on iCloud. MobileMe subscribers switching to iCloud will receive 20GB of free storage until September 30, 2012. Apple has been urging MobileMe users to upgrade to its iCloud storage system since introducing the system last year. The free additional storage was initially intended to expire on June 30. After September 30, former MobileMe customers switching to iCloud will have the option to pay for the additional storage or downgrade to the free 5GB plan Apple offers. The free upgrade offer will expire on September 30.

The extension is notable in that Apple did not widely announce it: it appeared in an update to the company's MobileMe-iCloud transition page some time after April 30. Apple has been gradually improving customers' incentives to switch to iCloud, hinting last year that some MobileMe features could return to iCloud, and offering MobileMe customers free upgrades to OS X Snow Leopard for switching.

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Portugal proposal would tax computer, mobile storage [U]

01602updated 09:30 am EDT, Fri April 13, 2012 Portugese may try copyright levy

(Update: may be shelved) Portugal's opposition-status Socialist Party has made a proposal that could, in at least some cases, hike the prices of computers and mobile devices. Although ostensibly to focus on professionals, what Portugal's Exame Informatica saw (via TechEye) would add a levy of 20 euro cents per gigabyte on storage up to 1TB and 2.5 euro cents for devices over 2TB. The rate would climb to as much as five euro cents per gigabyte for external "multimedia" drives.The levies would also extend to both internal and external flash storage. A memory card or USB thumb drive would incur six euro cents per gigabyte, while even internal flash on a phone would face a 50 euro cents levy. Printers would see an odd levy based on the pages-per-minute rate.

In practice, the costs could see dozens of euros added to the price of hardware, such as

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