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Showing posts with label cloud. Show all posts
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Amazon Cloud Player heads to the UK

  • 13:23

Amazon has revealed that it has launched its Cloud Player service in the UK.
The iTunes Match rival allows users to store their music in the cloud, for playback on Android and iOS devices, as well as Mac and PCs and will convert poor quality files to 256Kbps audio.
From now on, anyone who buys an Amazon MP3 will find that there files are automatically saved to the cloud free of charge – in all there's space for 250 songs (5GB) before you have to sign up to the premium version of the service.

Cloud and proud

There are various tiers for Amazon Cloud Player – ranging from £6 a year for 20GB of space to £320 a year for 1TB of space.
If you just want to use Cloud Player for music, then £21.99 a year will allow you to import 250,000 songs. By sheer coincidence this is the same price as iTunes Match.
Speaking about the move to the UK, Greg Greeley, Vice President of EU Retail at Amazon, said: "Millions of US customers are already using Amazon Cloud Player to listen to their music everywhere, on their favourite devices, including Kindle Fire, Android phones and tablets, iPhones, iPod Touches, Macs and PCs. We're excited to bring this same convenience to Amazon music customers in the UK.
"The launch of Cloud Player in the UK means that customers can buy anywhere, play anywhere, and keep all of their music in one place without the need for constant software updates, or drives and cables to move and manage their music."
Head over to www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive to find out more.

Source : Techradar
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Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Amazon announces Glacier, for long-term cloud storage

  • 18:03

Amazon has opened a new cloud backup service called Amazon Glacier, which is designed to hold onto data for decades. Costs start at about a penny per month, but there's a catch: it can take up to five hours to retrieve your data.
Amazon says it's designed for "data you don't need to get to often" like databasebackups, image archives, digital preservation and a replacement for old fashioned magnetic tape-based storage. Anything where "retrieval times of several hours are suitable."
Costs start at 1 US cent a month per gigabyte, and your monthly bill is based on the amount of data stored and transferred. There's no limit to the amount of data you can store, and individual archives have maximum size of 40 terabytes.
It's all very secure and durable. Your data is stored on multiple devices in multiple facilities, which Amazon says provides an "average annual durability of 99.999999999 percent." There are also systematic data checks, and Glacier can "heal itself", which we presume means reconstructing lost data from backups.
You can't edit data on Amazon Glacier. You can delete it, but if an archive is removed within three months of being uploaded, you will be charged an early deletion fee.
Amazon Glacier is open to signups around the world, here.
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Monday, 6 August 2012
Apple co-founder thinks the cloud will be "horrendous"

  • 08:56

Steve Wozniak isn't a fan of storing all his data online. The Apple co-founder says the idea of everyone uploading everything they own to the cloud is going to be "horrendous."
Speaking after Mike Daisey's one-man show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Woz let his thoughts on the cloud be known.
"I really worry about everything going to the cloud," he said. "I think it's going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years."

Losing control

His main issue seems to be that when you sign up to the cloud, you hand over your ownership rights to someone else. "With the cloud, you don't own anything," he said. "You already signed it away.
"The more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the cloud, the less we're going to have control over it."
One man who'll attest to that is Mat Hornan, a reporter at Gizmodo. Hackers managed to gain access to his devices and his iCloud through Apple's tech support. They remote wiped his iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air within minutes, and managed to delete his Google account. Scary stuff.
The Reuters Twitter feed was hacked this weekend as well, with ne'er-do-wells sending out false tweets about Syria.

Woz it all about?

Woz is known for his straight talking. Recently he sang the praises of the Windows Phone operating system, proclaiming it more beautiful and intuitive than Android.
So when he tears into something, you know he's saying what he really thinks.
It does make you wonder: if it's online, just how secure is it?
Via CNET
Source: Techradar
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Sunday, 15 July 2012
Google Drive. Keep everything. Share anything.

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Create & collaborate.

In Google Drive, you can create new documents, spreadsheets and presentations instantly. Work together at the same time, on the same doc, and see changes as they appear.


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