The weekend saw Dropbox users frustrated by issues with syncing and uploading files, as well as creating shareable links. The issues became so severe that the stability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) was called into question. According to a ...
Computerworld - LAS VEGAS -- Dropbox on Wednesday announced tighter integration of its cloud storage and file-sharing service with Samsung products, from smartphones to televisions. Dropbox said the deeper integration includes several new ...
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When Apple unveiled the first iPad with a Retina display, Adobe also updated its Photoshop Touch iPad app (Version 1.3 on iOS, $10; also available for Android) to make the most of the tablet's new capabilities and display. I've spent some ...
From the moment you install and open Apple's iPhoto app for iPad, you see an app that's clean, clear, and uncluttered. It's simple to use without being simplistic or dumbed down. After using it for a short while, I do have a few quibbles ...
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Storing information in the public cloud from a growing market of vendors is a viable alternative to on-premise, traditional storage options for some use cases, research firm Gartner says. But cloud-based storage providers vary widely in ...
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Facebook users can use the storage service Dropbox to share content stored in the cloud with Facebook groups, the two companies announced today. "Now you can share notes with your study group, add the latest game schedule to your ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft has announced the consumer and small-business prices for the new Office suite, which will be sold both via traditional single-device, perpetual licenses and via a new annual, multi-device cloud subscription. ...
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IDG News Service - Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added PowerShell to the management options for its cloud, in a move that reaches out to the Windows community. Part of Amazon's Microsoft push is to let developers and administrators manage ...
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A new file backup feature in Windows 8 that Microsoft trumpeted this week will help users protect their data but it is incomplete and far from unique, according to analysts. The feature, called File History, is innovative because it makes ...
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A new survey by technical support website FixYa indicates that users of the top five cloud storage services are most concerned about capacity, security and missing files. FixYa asked users of its service about the top five issues cloud ...
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Amazon is providing a way for one of the most popular JavaScript extensions, node.js, to easily access the Amazon Web Service collection of cloud computing capabilities. The AWS Developer Tools Team has released a preview of an SDK ...
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Microsoft on Tuesday rebooted Hotmail as Outlook.com, serving notice that the former is headed toward retirement and that the latter is the new face of the company's 15-year-old online email effort. Analysts might have shrugged at the ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making a foray into the data warehousing segment with the launch of Redshift, a cloud-based data warehouse service. It announced the Redshift service, along with Amazon S3 price cuts, at its first ever user ...
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An upgrade of Microsoft's Office Web Apps has been finalized, and a combination of enhancements makes this Web-hosted Office version work much better on iPads than previous iterations. As a result, Microsoft, which has been reticent to ...
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Amazon Web Services confirmed that its Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service experienced degraded service, leading sites across the Internet to experience downtime, including Reddit, Imgur and many others. AWS confirmed on its status page ...
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