One would have assumed that Amazon, the Web services cloud giant, would already have had file syncing available for its personal cloud storage service, Cloud Drive. Turns out that the digital lockers didn't have that capability until recently. The Verge reported today that the company has quietly rolled out the new feature ...
Dropbox Now Lets You See Links You’ve Clicked from Other Users
on 3.29.13
If you are a Dropbox user, you are acutely aware of the number of content links that your friends, family, and coworkers will send you. It can become confusing. Happily,Dropbox has released a new feature today that will track what content you have visited via shared links. Now, you can keep close tabs on just what you have ...
Report: iCloud is America’s Most-Used Cloud Service
on 3.22.13
Apple may not have the best reputation for online services but that hasn’t stopped its iCloud online storage service from becoming the most-used cloud service in the United States. A new report from Strategy Analytics shows that 27% American web users user iCloud, giving it a lead of 10 percentage points over runner-up ...
Microsoft Blames Wednesday’s Outlook Outage on Overheating Data Center
on 3.14.13
Microsoft's Outlook.com email service suffered a massive 16-hour outage Wednesday, which saw users unable to access parts of SkyDrive, Hotmail, and Outlook, too. Microsoft has revealed that it was a result of a mischievous firmware upgrade—which caused "a rapid and substantial temperature spike in the datacenter". It's ...
Dropbox Users Getting Spammy E-mails, Company Investigating
on 3.1.13
A thread on the Dropbox forums is filling up with reports of users getting sent spam email to addresses that have exclusively been used for the service. The uptick in spam has grown beyond just a few users, sparking some comparisons to last year’s data leak. Dropbox has taken notice and is now investigating. The thread ...
iCloud and Related Services Suffer Problems on Thursday
on 2.28.13
If iCloud has been acting up for you today, know that it’s not just you. At least three iCloud-based services are currently experiencing problems, according to Apple’s own system status page on Thursday morning. The current issues extend to Documents in the Cloud, Photo Stream — the service that syncs photos across ...
Dropbox Says One Billion Files Are Uploaded Every Day
on 2.27.13
One billion files are now being uploaded to Dropbox’s servers each day, CEO Drew Houston has revealed during a speech at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It’s a staggering figure that is double the number of tweets that Twitter revealed were being published to its social network each day last October. CNET cited ...
Google Chrome Extension Lets You Save Web Content to Cloud
on 12.12.12
Google has launched a new extension for Chrome called "Save to Drive," enabling users to save web content to their Google Drive. After installing the extension, users will get an additional icon in Chrome, letting them save an image, an entire page or an image of the visible page to your Drive. Users can also save the HTML ...
Skydrive, 40 Other Apps Come to Xbox 360
on 12.11.12
While Microsoft tries to find ways around Apple’s 30 percent cut on purchases for extra storage inside its Skydrive iOS app, the company will today expand the devices on which the service will be available, launching a dedicated Skydrive app for the Xbox 360 at 10am PST on Tuesday. The launch is part of a wider app ...
Valve officially launches TV-friendly Steam Big Picture mode
on 12.4.12
Valve on Monday announced the public release of Big Picture, Steam’s new mode that lets gamers access their games on a TV, in over 20 languages. Big Picture lets you use a traditional gamepad (as well as a keyboard and mouse) to access the complete Steam store and Steam Community from the comfort of the couch in your ...
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