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Amazon Cloud Drive reaches Canada

# 2013-05-21 19:09:00, Engadget
While Amazon Cloud Drive has been on quite the world tour as of late, Canadians have had to watch as seemingly everyone else gets the storage service first. Thankfully, Canucks can now do more than just twiddle their thumbs now that Cloud Drive has gone live in their country. Pricing is virtuall...

Google opens its Cloud Platform Compute Engine to all comers, updates App Engine

# 2013-05-15 23:07:00, Engadget
During Google's I/O developer's conference keynote, it actually slipped in quite a bit of, yes, developer news amongst all the noisy consumer launches. One biggie was the announcement that any and all companies looking for computing horsepower can jump on board its formerly-limited Google Comput...

Google Drive triples free storage to 15 GB

# 2013-05-13 12:30:00, TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
We were just talking about how Amazon is competing with Apple and other cloud services by offering 5 GB of storage for free. Now, that turns out to be old news, because today Google announced that free storage spanning several Google services like Gmail, Google+ and Google Drive is now going to co...

At I/O, Google Will Be Tracking Things Like Noise Level And Air Quality With Hundreds Of Arduino-Bas...

# 2013-05-13 08:56:17, TechCrunch
If you're attending Google I/O this week, you will be a part of an experiment from the Google Cloud Platform Developer Relations team. On its blog today, the team outlined its plan to gather a bunch of environmental information happening around you as you meander around the Moscone Center.

Amazon Cloud Drive Photos gives iOS users one more safety net

# 2013-05-10 09:37:00, Engadget
Avid iOS shutterbugs already have Dropbox, Flickr and any number of other internet-based safeguards for their photos, but it won't hurt to have another, will it? Amazon certainly doesn't mind, as its new iOS version of Cloud Drive Photos is built expressly for the sake of uploading shots and vie...

Box buys Crocodoc, gains HTML5 document converter and viewer

# 2013-05-09 13:59:00, Engadget
It's time to re-imagine your documents, apparently. Cloud storage service Box just acquired document embedding startup Crocodoc, which specializes in taking Word, PowerPoint and PDF documents and rendering them as HTML5 content inside web browsers and mobile apps. Crocodoc's technology will allo...

A Look Behind the Scenes of the Internet Archive's Impossible Task

# 2013-05-06 10:26:16, Gizmodo
Last fall, 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...

Dropbox to hold its first DBX developer conference on July 9th

# 2013-05-06 10:20:00, Engadget
While there's an abundance of cloud storage services, few of them have dedicated conferences to help developers exploit that online space. Dropbox could well be a vanguard on that front, then -- it just announced its inaugural developer conference, DBX. The initial event takes place on July 9th ...

SpiderOak Unveils Hive, Streamlines Zero-Knowledge Privacy Storage

# 2013-05-06 07:53:51, TechCrunch
An old saying states that "security is inversely proportional to convenience." This explains the slow adoption of many important security technologies. HTTPS, the secure version of the HTTP protocol used to browse the world wide web, has been around for more than two decades, but it's only been in t...

Dropbox 2.2 for iOS simplifies photo viewing, supports Dropbox for Business

# 2013-05-02 10:43:00, Engadget
Android-based Dropbox users got a crack at an even more photo-centric interface back in January; it's now the iOS crowd's turn to play. Dropbox 2.2 for their platform makes it easier for them to see their photos, organize them into albums and share them with others. The corporate set will also w...

Toshiba Canvio Connect drive backs up mobile devices through Pogoplug

# 2013-04-29 21:00:00, Engadget
While we're used to connected hard drives that share their contents with phones and tablets, the reverse isn't common -- why don't many of these drives safeguard our mobile content from the start? Toshiba is as baffled as we are, so it's launching its Canvio Connect portable drive with handheld ...

Verizon Cloud backup service rolling out for Android, comes soon to iOS

# 2013-04-29 16:47:00, Engadget
Smartphone owners have no shortage of cloud-based safety nets, whether it's Google's services, iCloud or any number of file sync providers. Few of these come from the carrier, however, and Verizon is gambling that its now-deploying Verizon Cloud service will serve as a crutch for anyone replacin...

LG Cloud rolling out in over 40 more countries by late May

# 2013-04-26 09:27:00, Engadget
Although LG jumped into the deep end of the online services pool when it launched LG Cloud last year, it didn't have much to brag about when access was limited to South Korea, Russia and the US. The company is about to broaden its horizons considerably -- it now plans to deploy LG Cloud to more ...

Boxee Cloud DVR reaches the San Francisco Bay Area in beta

# 2013-04-25 08:47:00, Engadget
Boxee Cloud DVR has been active in only eight markets since its inception as Boxee TV, but it's at last time for the platform to spread its wings. As of now, Boxee's live TV recording service is up and running in the San Francisco Bay Area in beta form; owners just need to update their firmware ...

Heroku Launches Europe Region In Public Beta, Expects To Be Safe Harbor Certified Soon

# 2013-04-24 08:42:59, TechCrunch
Heroku, the popular cloud platform as a service company, today announced the public launch of its Europe region. Developers will now be able to deploy their services closer to their European customers, which should result in markedly reduced latency for them. The company says it has observed perform...

MightyText web app lets you sync photos, videos from Android to PC

# 2013-04-24 06:00:00, Engadget
Ever since its official introduction two years ago, MightyText has seemed to expand its laundry list of features on an annual basis. Today is no exception, as the company is now adding "iCloud-like" syncing to its web app. As a refresher, MightyText acts as a client that syncs information betwee...