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Out of the blue I received an email from Google Buzz support which, needless to say, was a surprise. In fact, I felt like a time traveler when I saw it land in my inbox -- the service began mercifully shutting down back in October 2011. Well, it is not officially dead yet, it seems, but life-support is about to
Copy a competitor to Dropbox became available to the public today. It allows you to upload your files to the Barracuda Network cloud, where you can access them from any device that you have installed the Copy application on. It will work on most platforms including Macs, Windows, Linux, iOs, and Android. According to their press release Windows Mobile is
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
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
I own a lot of music. Well, the real truth is that it’s mine and that of my wife and kids, but all told it adds up to just over 95 GB. The music collection started off with albums and cassettes when I was a kid, but later on those were all replaced by CD, and I traded in the
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,