What is “The Cloud” and should I be using it? So what is this cloud thing I keep hearing about?  It sounds kind of scary to have my data and information stored somewhere other than my computer.  Couldn’t someone get it?  Isn’t it more at risk? Think of the cloud as water.  You turn on [...]

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Do you know why American executives do not allow sound recorders into a meeting room until an hour after the meeting has concluded? Because the sound particles are floating in...

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With Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, VMWare, SalesForce, and even Dell all in the private and public cloud game together, you knew that there were going to be clashes. And there have...

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Cloud Save, a handy little Chrome extension which we found thanks to Freeware Genius makes it easier than ever to save all sorts of files to all sorts of online accounts,...

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Fiabee is a cloud-based file storage service that we first covered back at the end of last year. Now, the Spain and San Francisco based startup has rolled out new services that make it a compelling choice for anyone considering the best place to store their files in that fluffy place we call the cloud. [...]

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Fiabee is a cloud-based file storage service that we first covered back at the end of last year. Now, the Spain and San Francisco based startup has rolled out new...

Read More: Cloud storage service Fiabee gets Facebook and Flickr sync, Windows app and more

Last week the world was shaken by the news that Steve Jobs had died and the first place that many people turned to express their sorrows and celebrate Jobs’ life was social media.  People paid tribute to the Apple co-founder on Facebook, Twitter, and beyond and social media monitoring tool Meltwater Buzz put together a word cloud identifying the top themes and words that people used to remember Steve Jobs on social networks.


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Despite the widely accepted public knowledge before the big reveal today (including pre-announcement photos on TechCrunch), Amazon managed to pull of a Steve Jobs type "one more thing" this morning by announcing not just one but four new Kindle models and a new web browser that uses its own considerable cloud services.


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Pocket-lint reports that people who buy new Android phones from HTC will get a very useful bonus service.


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To celebrate the opening of their new AT&T Foundry in Palo Alto, AT&T is talking about some of the ambitious projects that they and their partner developers have been cooking up. One of the most interesting so far is AT&T Messages, which attempts to make all of your messages, voicemails, and call logs accessible from multiple devices.

Their cloud communications concept sounds quite a bit like the messaging half of Google Voice, but AT&T Messages has a few distinct advantages. On [...]

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Image courtesy of Cloud EnginesI've long advocated storage solutions like Dropbox and Box.net for mobile users because of their low cost and ability to expand the amount of information one can access from mobile devices. Some people do not like the idea of storing their data on another company's servers, and for those people Cloud Engines' line of PogoPlug storage devices is an appealing alternative. Today Cloud Engines announced the PogoPlug Mobile, which is their newest personal cloud solution [...]

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If your business uses Salesforce.com's services, you may want to take a look at a free iPhone speech recognition app from Nuance designed specifically for Saleforce.com's products.


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Amazon and other ebook reader app providers recently had to modify their iPad apps to comply with Apple's policy for not allowing links that lead to the purchase of content from outside of the in-app purchase mechanism. Amazon just made available a new service that could eventually lead to working completely around Apple's policies. Amazon's new cloud based web ebook reading service works with desktop browsers (Chrome and Safari) as well as the iPad's Safari mobile browser.Kindle Cloud ReaderHer [...]

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TouchStudio is a on-device programming environment for Windows Phone developed and published by Microsoft Research. This still-in-beta product got a major upgrade this week to version 2.0 as well as a new name – TouchDevelop.


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Nuance's PaperPort Anywhere is a two-part product. Part one is a tiered web image management service. There is a free entry level account with 1GB storage. 10GB costs $9.99 per month while 50GB costs $24.99 per month. Part two is a free iOS (iPhone, iPad) app.


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