Remains of the Day: Potent potables

20.05.2011
After two days in the capable hands of Messrs. and , you're stuck with me again. Just in time to talk cloud licensing (the legal distinctions between stratus and cumulonimbus are really quite fascinating), Verizon's tiered data plans (your choice of large, extra large, or patently ridiculous), and Apple's latest trademark defense (what is this "App Store" of which you speak?). You're in good hands with the remainders for Friday, May 20, 2011.

(Bloomberg)

Three of the four major record labels have supposedly signed on to , the latest addition being Sony. Fortunately, Apple rode roughshod over the company's insistence that Sony music only be streamed in .

(Reuters)

Verizon is preparing to follow up on earlier promises to , but part of that equation may be family data plans. Under such plans, families could conceivably pay for a single pool of data to share among multiple users and multiple devices. Of course, they'll probably require you to validate that you're family--call it the DataGenePoolPlus plan.

(PCMag)