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The Best Cloud Storage Services
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Hands On: First Look At Kim Dotcom's Mega [Updated]
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How Optus Plans To Solve Network Congestion
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Google Apps Vs Office 365 Feature Showdown: Which Should You Use?
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How To Use Spotify Outside Of Europe With A VPN Service
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My Concept Rules: Dream Up A Cool Windows Azure App And We'll Help Make It Happen
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How Adobe Built A Stylus Fit For The Cloud
Earlier this week we learned that Adobe is abandoning Creative Suite for the cloud. But at the tail end of its announcement, the company also revealed a surprising little hardware project that shows how it plans to augment Creative Cloud: a pressure-sensitive iPad stylus called Project Mighty and its ruler cousin, Napoleon.
A Look Behind The Scenes Of The Internet Archive’s Impossible Task
Last year, the Internet Archive celebrated a massive milestone, as the “online Library of Alexandria” reached 10 petabytes of stored information. Yes, that means 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes accessible to anyone. Wow.
Set Up Your Own Personal Storage Cloud With BitTorrent Sync
One of BitTorrent’s latest little tricks, a sorta-kinda-but-not-really cloud storage service, just grew up into a real app today. Bit Torrent Sync and all of its shared folder goodness just launched into Alpha today, and you can go check it out for yourself.
Space Monkey: Easy Cloud Storage In Your Very Own Home
I have a confession: I’ve never properly backed up my computer. Ever. Whether it was a cloud-based solution or a local NAS, the upload speeds were horrendous, or the software was just plain ugly and confusing to use. But a couple of former Mozy employees have convinced me otherwise. Say hello to Space Monkey.
Apple Fixes Huge Security Hole With Two-Step Verification
Apple just added two-factor authentication for iCloud and all your Apple accounts. It’s a huge deal for security and a welcome boon to a security process full of holes that were frustrating to fix.
Report: Amazon Is Building The CIA’s New Cloud-Computing System
The CIA has reportedly signed a massive cloud-computing deal with Amazon, worth up to $US600 million over the next 10 years. FCW reports that its sources have told it Amazon will build a private cloud infrastructure for the CIA, to help it “keep up with emerging technologies like big data in a cost-effective manner not possible under the CIA’s previous cloud efforts”.
Everpix’s Image Analysis Will Eventually Find All Your Cat Photos Automatically
Everpix is an online photo storage system that’s trying very hard to be the Flickr that everybody wants. Its latest crack at an “Explore” feature uses image analysis to sort all of the photos in your collection into content categories, like “animals”, “city” and “nature”. It works, and it will only get smarter over time.
