Today Dropbox released a new beta version of its desktop app for both Mac and Windows with a couple of small but really useful features for their many cloud-oriented users. Read More >>
News emerged this week that the U.S. Army, which has been collecting biometric data of locals in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, is going to start storing that data in the cloud. Put simply, biometrics is the collection of personal, physical data using devices like retina scanners, and no matter what way you spin the situation, it's a potentially pretty creepy practice. (Do you want the government to take pictures of the inside of your eyeball?) But in a warzone, it seems downright dangerous. Doubly so in the cloud. Read More >>
Part of the Google I/Oonslaught yesterday was an update to Google Play Books for both Android and iOS. In and of itself it's not exactly ground-breaking, but Google'll now let you read books uploaded to your Google Drive (through Google Books), which means cloud-syncing for your own, erm, acquired books. Read More >>
Featured comment by jezzafool:
"I seem to be miss-understanding this as I can't 'open with Google play books' like I can with iBooks from Google Drive...." More »
Last autumn, 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. Read More >>
Apple's iCloud portfolio of various streaming and syncing services has existed for two years. And in those two years, Apple still hasn't been able to keep it from regularly fucking up. It happened again today! Read More >>
If you haven't hadyourfill of cloud storage by now, here's how to grab yourself another 50GB of the stuff from Box, not just for a year or two, but for life. Plus, you can gift your friends 50GB too. Read More >>
Featured comment by Lawton:
"I use these thing to torrent files at work and send them home over the course of a day, saves my crappy home Interent the pleasure." More »
Imagine never running out of room on your hard drive or having a cheaper cloud storage solution. Actually, you don't have to imagine either because BitCasa offers "infinite" storage space on the cheap. Read More >>
Featured comment by Fourthletter:
"But then thinking you have superior technical knowledge to people you don't actually know might be the best qualification for a tech blog, who knows b..." More »
Any photos you have on Dropbox are about to be organised. A new service called Virtual Photo Album rounds up literally every image you've got in Dropbox, puts them in one place, and sorts them by date. Pretty great — or maybe pretty scary if you're not sure what's in your Dropbox. Read More >>
Mega has been stealing the spotlight when it comes to new cloud storage services, but its actual usability has been sort of crappy since launch. Meanwhile, in Kim Dotcom's gargantuan shadow, BitTorrent is trying its hand at "cloud" storage too, with BitTorrent Sync, and it just might be the Mega that Mega wants to be. Read More >>
Storage space is precious, and most major services — Google Drive and iCloud, for example — only give you a measly 5GB for free. MediaFire, is pretty magnanimous, doling out 50GB on the house. And it just launched on Android. Read More >>
Here's an interesting titbit. Phil Harrison, VP of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, let slip that the future of the Xbox isn't about one piece of hardware, but cloud-based gaming. Maybe the Xbox 720 won't be all that revolutionary hardware-wise, then? Read More >>
Featured comment by Jammin500:
"The other issue with cloud is what about when you play offline, EG, i take my xbox to my old mans at xmas cos talking to my family is like grating you..." More »
Binge drinking enabler Punch Taverns has signed a deal with omnipresent Wi-Fi provider The Cloud, which will see free Wi-Fi access launched in some 3,000 pubs across the UK. Read More >>
Featured comment by JoeyG410:
"Yea, I only ever went on Three because one of my mates had Three and always had good signal and fast internet, they have improved in my area over the ..." More »
Hooray, the Microsoft Surface just got slightly more useful. A Dropbox app for Windows 8's Metro modern UI is finally available. If you've got true Win 8 on your machine, I'm guessing you've already got the x86 Windows Dropbox app, but now you can have two. Awesome? [Windows Store] Read More >>
Cloud computing is big business. Companies and individual users rent bandwidth from large cloud services to perform all manner of tasks, from hosting small websites to churning through large, computing-intensive tasks like modelling new drug compounds. But what if you could gain access to all that computing power for free? Read More >>
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