On CE - For Dealers, Distributors and OEMs of Consumer Electronics throughout EMEA

At Apple's WWDC, Steve Jobs came on stage to announce iCloud, an Apple service that stores your music, and content and wirelessly pushes them to all your devices — automatically. Users can put all the songs they have ever bought from the company's iTunes store on up to 10 devices at no additional charge.

Apple says it will do the same with books and apps previously purchased through its online stores.

Future iTunes purchases can be automatically sent to all the devices. Content transfers will NOT require devices to be plugged into a computer (only a wireless connection).

Unveiled at E3, Sony launches its next gen, quad core gaming handheld, the PlayStation Vita.

Part of Sony’s networked strategy to connecting all its CE devices, Vita lets gamers to play against people using PlayStation 3 consoles over the internet (the currently besieged PlayStation Network) via cellphone networks as well as wi-fi hotspots.

Shipping at end of 2011, prices for wifi model are expected to be 249 euro and euro 299 for 3G.

In America, the cellphone network service is exclusive to AT&T and you buy the 3G model only from AT&T. So you can expect similar deals cut with telcos across Europe. As these deals are more complicated in Europe, one suspects there will be delays, even once Europe's big four (UK, France, Germany, Italy) are covered.

Vita, with an accelerometer, features 6-axis motion sensors, dual  thumbsticks controls, the now popular front- and rear-facing cameras, and 5" OLED screen. PSVita offers GPS location-tracking technology if you are in the US.

Go Sony's PS Vita

Microsoft's old warhorse-- the wireless mouse and keyboard combo-- gets a new version with  additional security to make sure no one snoops on your customers while they type.

The Wireless Desktop 2000 keyboard is Microsoft's first to carry Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 128-bit encryption technology, preventing the interception and deciphering of users' keystrokes.

The keyboard pairs up with the included wireless mouse 2000 BlueTrack technology in order to work on any surface-- so long it's not clear glass or mirrored surfaces, of course.

It also has a pillow-textured palm rest for support, while the mouse has enchanced side grips and four-way scrolling.

Go Wireless Desktop 2000

Nyx Devices plans to look at your customers while they sleep-- just not in the creepy way. The company is developing Somnus, a nightshirt with embedded fabric electronics monitoring its wearer's breathing patterns.

Sleep pattern monitoring usually involves hooking up a test subject to a whole range of scary looking sensors to analyse brain activity, muscle movements, heart rates. Not the Somnus shirt, whose electronics link up to a single chip in the shirt pocket.

The chip determines the wearer's sleep phase (either REM, light sleep or deep sleep). Once the user wakes up, they can upload their stats to Nyx's website alongside any other data such as their alcohol and caffeine consumption. Thus, one can finally learn whether their boozy evenings truly affect their zzz's.

Nyx hopes the Somnus shirt will be available next year following more tests of its approach to sleep. Meanwhile we'll keep on snoozing in our regular jammies and hope for the (nighttime) best.

Go A Nightshirt to Monitor Sleep