Here are your Apple news items and rumors for Friday: Rocking out the Google
Cloud on iPad: Apple s (NASDAQ: AAPL ) iCloud storage service which lets iTunes
users upload their music libraries to Apples servers so they can be downloaded
to any device at any time (for a subscription fee) will open for business later
this fall. As of today, many iPad users can start enjoying cloud-based music
storage and listening, though not through iTunes. Google s (NASDAQ: GOOG )
Google Music service, very similar to iClouds iTunes Match service, now supports
Apples tablet. Unlike iCloud, Google Music, which still is in the testing phase
and isnt fully open to the public, is free. Your move, Apple. Sprint Brings
Unlimited Data Plans to iPhone 5: As more people buy smartphones, telecoms AT&T
(NYSE: T ) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ ) have had to pull back from offering their
subscribers unlimited data access on their 3G and growing 4G networks, much to
the chagrin of iPhone users with prolific downloading habits. Sprint (NYSE: S )
will offer those users a safe haven this fall. A Friday report at Bloomberg
reiterated that not only will Sprint carry Apples latest smartphone when it
releases in October, the struggling telecom will actually offer unlimited data
plans to its users . The companys current unlimited data and voice plan costs
$99.99 per month. Big Q3 iPad Sales: A Friday report in the Taiwan Economic News
(via 9 to 5 Mac ) said iPad sales during the third quarter of 2011 might turn
out significantly higher than expected. A source within Apple manufacturing
partner Foxconn claims that while the company predicted it would ship 14 million
iPads to Apple between July and September, the number likely will turn out to be
closer to 20 million. If accurate, Apple will have sold more than double the
number of iPads it sold during the second quarter of the year when it released
the iPad 2 model. As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a
position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at
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