At The Mercy Of Cloud Storage

I'm a big cloud services user. I have cloud storage accounts with a net of nearly 100GB of free space. I use a lot of the space for archives, but lately I've been using Google Drive to keep my school documents available no matter I am. And today that system failed. Early this morning, apparently before a major Google services outage, I...

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Google Drive And Cloud Storage

I couldn't resist writing my own something about Google Drive today. Cloud storage is hot this week, and the foreseeable future. Google didn't get it right out of the gate, most don't. But I can tell you that Google Drive will become common cloud storage for a lot of people. Dropbox is the 800 pound gorilla in cloud storage for consumers, and doesn't...

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Microsoft SkyDrive Cloud Storage Gunning For Dropbox

Microsoft released an update to their SkyDrive product, and they did its in a big way. This is a serious challenge to Dropbox, with the addition of Mac and Windows native app, and mobile apps for iOS and Windows Phone. But not Android mobile, which is a shame, because it would have been just as easy to write an Android client at the same time. This...

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New Amazon S3 Data Transfer Pricing

This is incredible. The price for transferring data into your S3 account is now FREE! Starting July 1, 2011. And now they have pricing for data storage in the Petabyte range. That just blows my mind.New inbound data transfer price for all regions (effective July 1, 2011)$0.000 - all data transfer inNew data transfer price for US-Standard, US-West and Europe regions (effective July 1, 2011)$0.000 - first 1 GB / month data transfer out$0.120 per GB - up to 10 TB / month data transfer out (10 TB total)$0.090 per GB -...

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5 Tech Stories Worth Reading

1. Sony cut online security staff two weeks before it was hackedLawsuits against Japanese electronics giant Sony have revealed that the company laid off a number of employees responsible for network security, two weeks before attacks brought down the PlayStation Network.2. How to use Twitter in the classroomThe advantage to using a tool like Twitter for education is that it’s instant and it’s to the point. There have been countless articles about whether or not social media makes us lazy, or whether it affects our attention...

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5 Tech Stories Worth Reading

1. Apple’s iCloud To Be Free At Launch, Then Pay To PlayApple Inc. has just sewn up its contracts with the four major record labels Thursday for a cloud music service, with agreements from music publishers to follow on Friday, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.2. Mashape, the Marketplace for APIs, Moves to BetaAn app is like a Lego construction, Mashape is your Lego box. Search the API you need an easily integrate it in your project.3. Robots With Laser Vision, Ford's New $100M InvestmentFord's new army of...

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Amazon CloudPlayer Fail On iOS

No luck using Amazons new web based CloudPlayer on iOS. Wants me to use Internet Explorer. Really? Did Microsoft pay for that?...

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Person Of The Year: The Web API

No sense in waiting a few more weeks to announce this, I don't think two more weeks is going to change the outcome. Votes are in, tallied and tabulated, and hands down the Person of the Year is? The Web API. Web API's are the hottest thing on the Internet and in Web development. Application like Twitter and Facebook provide third party applications...

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Amazon Adds Media Streaming, Spot Instances, and VPC Cloud Services

Amazon AWS just keeps getting better and better. Today the company announced three new services to it’s AWS product line. Amazon CloudFront Streaming This new services gives you a world class media server in the cloud. You can now stream media files, audio and video, from a server using Adobe Flash Media Server. As with all Amazon AWS services, this is a pay for what you use, no upfront costs to start and no minimums. CloudFront puts your files on the networks edge, delivering your content quicker, which is a great benefit...

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