Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

SanDisk is best known for its flash storage hardware technology. The company is also interested in moving data between flash storage in Android devices and cloud services. SanDisk provides a free Android app to help with this kind of file movement.

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I’ve long advocated storage solutions like Dropbox and Box.net for mobile users because of their low cost and ability to expand the amount of information one can access from mobile devices. Some people do not like the idea of storing their data on another company’s servers, and for those people Cloud Engines’ line of PogoPlug [...]

Steve Jobs is scheduled to kick of Apple’s annual developer conference (WWDC) in San Francisco next week Monday (June 6). One of the few known announcements is Apple’s new cloud play – iCloud. CNET and other sources report that Apple has signed deals with the four largest record companies that may include license to stream [...]

In a recent article on the status of the could music battle between Amazon, Google and Apple, I tendered my opinion that victory wouldn’t be based on chronological order, but on a litany of factors. I also touched on the fact that Apple has a storied history of entering the market later than competitors with [...]

The Windows Azure Platform is part of Microsoft’s cloud strategy. It is similar to Amazon’s Web Services products to provide a virtual data center which includes everything from computational resources to database services to syncrhonization. Microsoft announced toolkits to let mobile app developers access Azure platform resources. The toolkit is available for Apple iOS and [...]

Apple is reported to be in talks with record companies in a bid to ease out download restrictions on music from iTunes store. Currently when a user purchases a song, he is able to download it only once to his device. If Apple has its way, iTunes users will be able to download the songs that they have purchased multiple times and across multiple devices that they may own. This will relieve users from the mundane task of syncing music albums across different devices.

Telecom giant Motorola is getting into the cloud storage game with the purchase of Y Combinator-backed cloud storage and cloud streaming company Zecter.

The three-and-a-half-year-old Zecter is best known for its ZumoDrive and ZumoCast services, which let users store and stream files to and from servers on the Internet, AKA “the cloud” of data.

Motorola did not say how much they paid for Zecter, but they bought the whole shebang; acquiring not only Zecter’s products, but also its founder David Zhao, who developed applications for Amazon.com before taking the startup plunge. It also mentioned that Zecter has around one million customers.

Motorola intends to integrate Zecter’s technology into its MOTOBLUR service, a user interface replacement for Android-based devices with a hefty social networking component. MOTOBLUR pushes notifications from various social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.

“Consumers want seamless access to their content and media from wherever they are, while content providers want to ensure that content remains protected and secure,” said Motorola Mobility VP of software and services Christy Wyatt in a statement.

Motorola seems most interested in Zecter’s streaming technology. As part of the buyout, Motorola will be halting the distribution of ZumoCast software. Current ZumoCast users will be able to use the service as normal, but the company said that it would keep users informed about its “future plans” for the product. And almost as a footnote, Moto added that “The ZumoDrive solution will be unaffected.”

Drop.io is all about file-storage, sharing and making these easier tasks. Taking advantage of the cloud, Drop.io has build a new applet that makes it drop-dead simple to create a playlist that can be accessed via the web, anywhere and anytime. The new feature, rightly titled playlist.io, lets you take songs from your computer and add them to a playlist with a few clicks. This works with your iTunes songs as well.

Once you’ve created a playlist, you’re able to pull up your playlist.io on any computer or compatible mobile device that’s able to access the web. Music from existing Drop.io folders can also be added to your playlist, with drag-n-drop capabilities. As with anything sent to your Drop.io account, a playlist can be made private or can be shared with privacy settings.
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