The popular cloud storage site, Dropbox, appears to have been granted a reprieve in China. The site has been blocked over there since 2010 due to some potentially politically sensitive material stored on the US-based service. While the reasoning is still unclear, the ban now looks to have been lifted according to Tech in Asia… Continue reading Dropbox Scales the Great Firewall as Cloud Storage Service Gets Unblocked in China
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Microsoft’s Next CEO and Potential Future Without Bill Gates as Chairman
Is Microsoft’s five-month long search for a new chief executive officer finally over? According to a report out of Bloomberg, yes. Microsoft is ready to name Satya Nadella as the company’s next CEO and enterprise cloud chief to replace the departing Steve Ballmer. You may be surprised to hear that Microsoft’s board is also considering… Continue reading Microsoft’s Next CEO and Potential Future Without Bill Gates as Chairman
Evernote Now Syncs 4x Faster With Updated Server Infrastructure
One of our biggest gripes with modern Web services might be Evernote. Despite its useful bookmarking, note taking, sync and collaboration tools, Evernote (otherwise known as “For’Evernote“) can be a bit of a drag to use because of how long it takes to clip items to your notebooks. With Evernote’s new syncing infrastructure, however, slow… Continue reading Evernote Now Syncs 4x Faster With Updated Server Infrastructure
New Cloud Hosting Provider DigitalOcean Is Now Growing Faster than Amazon
Have you heard of the new cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean? Amazon sure has because DigitalOcean is now growing faster than Amazon’s own Web services. According to the December 2013 Web Server Survey by NetCraft, DigitalOcean showed a month-on-month gain of 6,514 computers while Amazon grew by just a few hundred less Web-facing computers. Together, the… Continue reading New Cloud Hosting Provider DigitalOcean Is Now Growing Faster than Amazon
Dropbox Looking to Fuel Rocket With $250 Million Investment and Staggering $8 Billion Valuation
Yesterday we witnessed the way scientists are simulating bursting bubbles on supercomputers, but no one could of predicted the latest move by Dropbox looking to burst the dot-com bubble for good instead. Dropbox is reportedly raising funds that would give the online cloud storage service a valuation north of $8 billion according to Businessweek. Have… Continue reading Dropbox Looking to Fuel Rocket With $250 Million Investment and Staggering $8 Billion Valuation
Now Send Gmail Attachments Directly to Google Drive, No Downloads Required
Google has taken major steps today to ensure that what happens in the cloud stays in the cloud. If you ever downloaded an email attachment before, you’ve probably noticed how each of these files takes time to download, wastes space on your computer and can even be hard to find buried among other random files… Continue reading Now Send Gmail Attachments Directly to Google Drive, No Downloads Required
GoDaddy Acquires Web Hosting Service Media Temple
In a major shakeup to the Web hosting landscape, GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar and Web hosting provider, has acquired Media Temple. Media Temple offers tools similar to GoDaddy’s for domain registration, Web hosting, business applications, virtual servers and other cloud services that support over 1.5 million websites and 125,000 customers. GoDaddy is… Continue reading GoDaddy Acquires Web Hosting Service Media Temple
Print Anything, Anywhere Using Google Cloud Print Now on Windows
If you are not aware there is a free service called Google Cloud Print that allows you use your printer from anywhere on any device. The Cloud Print service works with any Google Chrome browser and applications that are cloud ready which allows you to print to a Cloud Printer. The latest update from Google… Continue reading Print Anything, Anywhere Using Google Cloud Print Now on Windows
