Apple launches iCloud Beta, US pricing details announced
August 2nd, 2011 2:11am
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Apple has released a beta version of its new suite of media streaming and cloud-based services, Apple iCloud.
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Amazon announces Unlimited Cloud Storage for music
July 7th, 2011 6:02pm
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Amazon have just socked it to their rivals by announcing that they are going to allow unlimited music storage for users of its Amazon Cloud Player service.
LaCie CloudBox offers 100GB local and cloud storage combo
June 24th, 2011 12:58pm
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LaCie have come up with a neat storage and back up solution in the shape of their dual back-up system, known as the LaCie CloudBox.
Apple iOS iCloud serves up automatic cloud storage
June 6th, 2011 10:02pm
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Apple has announced some big – and some not so big – upgrades to its iOS operating system at today’s WWDC, and one of the most interesting is its new iCloud service.
Google launches Music Beta cloud service and a one-size-fits-all OS update
May 10th, 2011 9:08pm
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At Google’s big web developer-focused conference – known as Google I/O - the Android team threw around some impressive facts about the rise of Android and announced some interesting new features.
Amazon launches innovative cloud-based music storage/streaming service
March 29th, 2011 11:02am
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In a bold bid to establish itself as the de facto online storage centre for music, Amazon has taken the covers off its new Amazon Cloud Drive and Player offering, which offers to securely store your music on its servers and stream it to your browser or Android device .
Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for Android devices released
June 10th, 2010 9:45am
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Quickoffice has released its Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for Android devices, offering full editing of Microsoft Office files as well as access to a variety of cloud-based services such as Apple MobileMe, Google Docs, Box.net and Dropbox.
Running on the the Android Eclair 2.0/2.1 and Donut 1.6 operating systems, Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite “seamlessly integrates access to remote cloud services within a full Office suite”.
Google Docs gets tasty revamp
April 13th, 2010 10:45am
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We’ve been using the cloud-based Google Docs for some time and have appreciated its ability to let us create, share, and collaborate on documents online.
Google have now announced a series of fairly substantial updates to the service,k including Google Wave-esque, real-time, character-by-character editing for multiple users, as-you-type spell check and a commenting system.
CrashPlan triumphs in comparison of online backup services
March 22nd, 2010 2:38pm
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With an almost-new hard drive catastrophically failing in our office only last week, we’ve never been so aware of the fragility of our precious data – and the need to back it up thoroughly.
We like to go for the belt’n'braces approach, backing up our data both locally and online, but with so many choices available, UK tech site TechRadar have usefully posted up a review of “six reliable online backup services for your Mac.”
Before you Windows users retire from this article at speed – hold your horses! – all of the six back up services reviewed also work on PCs.
Fuhrer video takes on cloud security for the techie LOLz
March 17th, 2010 11:03am
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You must have all seen endless versions of the now-legendary ‘Fuhrer’ videos, where alternative captions are added to the powerful scene from the 2004 German-language movie titled “Downfall.”
There’s been X Box versions, ones about Runescape, the iPad (see below), even ones about Hitler being banned from Yahoo Answers, and the latest one to amuse us is this clip with Hitler ranting about the shortfalls of cloud computing security. It’s a bit of a treat for techies.
Google buys up Picnik cloud-based photo editing service
March 1st, 2010 9:18pm
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Google has just announced that it has opened up its big bag of money and acquired the cloud-based photo editing service, Picnik.
The website lets you crop, touch-up and add various effects to your photos from within your web browser.
Google Docs gets its own clipboard for copy’n'pasting lolz
February 18th, 2010 4:40pm
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Google continues to ramp up the set on its online Google Docs service, with the latest addition being an extended web clipboard floating about in the cloud.
The web clipboard lets you store any text cut or copied ‘in the cloud’ and then paste it into another Google Docs document, with all the original formatting remaining intact.
Google Docs adds free 1GB cloud storage
January 13th, 2010 10:38am
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Google have announced an update to their Google Docs service, which now lets users upload, store and organise any type of file and access them from any computer (internet connection permitting, natch).
Back in the day, folks resorted to emailing files to themselves to keep their stuff stored in the cloud, but Google Docs now gives the ability to shunt any file up to 250 MB on to their servers.
Google Chrome netbook OS unveiled: videos explain WTF
November 20th, 2009 9:15am
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Google has unveiled more details of its Linux-based, open-source operating system, Chrome OS, a super fast, browser-based operating system for netbooks.
Promising near-instant boot times of around 7 seconds, all applications will run exclusively inside the browser with Sundar Pichai, VP of product management at Google, explaining that they expect the Chrome OS to be “blazingly fast … to boot up like a TV.”
T-Mobile loses users’ Sidekick data: stormy clouds ahead
October 11th, 2009 12:08pm
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After a catastrophic server failure, T-Mobile and Danger, the Microsoft-owned subsidiary that makes the Sidekick, have announced that they were unable to recover the stored Sidekick data - meaning that some users will have lost all their personal data stored in the ‘cloud’.
A cautionary tale of the downside of cloud computing, Sidekick users stand to have lost all their contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists and photos that weren’t stored locally, with Microsoft/Danger describing the likelihood of recovering the data from their servers as “extremely low”.
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