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Polkast allows any individual to create their own personal cloud server quickly and easily. This would allow them to access the date including documents, photos, videos and music that is on their home computer from anywhere in the world where a connection is available. Polkast allows the user to stream video from their home computer to their mobile device, because
Amazon has introduced a brand new service called AutoRip. This is a very different way of looking at music storage. In short, it takes the CD that you purchased from Amazon and puts it into your Amazon Cloud Player. It also will make that album available on your PC or Mac, Kindle Fire, Android phone, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
The cloud is definitely where it's at right now, but what if you don't like the idea the idea of Google, Dropbox et al looking after your data? Then you might be interested in a Pogoplug, which allows you to create your own cloud storage that's only limited by the size of the hard disk. A Pogoplug is a hardware
Mat Honan's story (as covered by Todd in the latest podcast) showed me that the strongest password in the world is worth nothing if it can be reset by a straightforward social engineering-based attack. I'm sure Apple and Amazon will be looking hard at their policies and procedures but for the individual, there's also much to learn from the episode.
Cloud storage hub Jolicloud today announced the launch of their new Public Profiles for users. If you aren't familiar with Jolicloud, it's a service that grabs all of your various data from different social services like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Picasa, and Tumblr and places the data into neat files in one single location that users can then easily scan. For instance,
Amazon Cloud Player has been available for Android devices since it launched, but today Amazon announced that the music app is now available for iPad and iPhone. That's great news for iOS owners, especially given that the other big player in this field, Google Music, is also not available for Apple's mobile platform. Amazon Cloud Player offers 5 GB of free storage
Google recently released Google Drive. It is the newest cloud storage device. Dropbox is a cloud storage device that has been in use for quite some time. I thought it would be interesting to compare the two. Price Dropbox: * Up to 18 GB is free. You can earn 2 GB + 500 MB per referral. * Pro 50 Plan