SpiderOak today launched Hive, an app allows users to easily sync their files across devices while the files remain encrypted on SpiderOak’s servers.
SpiderOak’s Hive Keeps Cloud-Stored Files Safe From Prying Eyes
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Mediabistro Webcast
Vine has added sound and motion to the popular microblogging website, Twitter. Learn how to bring your information to life in our Vine webcast on Wednesday, June 19 from 4-5 pm ET. In this one-hour webcast, Gemma Craven (left), EVP, New York group director at Social@Ogilvy will discuss best practices for using the visual social platform and share some of her team's successful vine videos. Register here.
"Vine: Create Quick Social Videos To Market Your Brand" Webcast
Vine has added sound and motion to the popular microblogging website, Twitter. Learn how to bring your information to life in our Vine webcast on Wednesday, June 19 from 4-5 pm ET. In this one-hour webcast, Gemma Craven (left), EVP, New York group director at Social@Ogilvy will discuss best practices for using the visual social platform and share some of her team's successful vine videos. Register here. Hollywood Tries Giving Content to BitTorrent
The makers of the indie film Arthur Newman took a gamble on digital distribution, releasing a 10-minute promotional video on BitTorrent in the lead-up to its premier this weekend.
BitTorrent Introduces Syncing Application With No Cloud Storage and No Size Limits
BitTorrent today launched an alpha version of an application that allows users to sync their files across devices and share them with friends without them being stored on an external server where they are vulnerable to legal action and company closures.
Yahoo Mail Taps Dropbox to Handle Attachments
Yahoo Mail now integrates with Dropbox to handle attachments, the two companies said today. Yahoo is the first email client to offer such integration.
Dropbox Acquires Hot Email App Mailbox
Dropbox announced today that it had acquired Mailbox, makers of a popular email app that launched last month.
Bitcasa Emerges From Beta, Promising Instant Access to Infinite Storage
Bitcasa cloud storage service emerged from beta today and launched an iOS app. The company promises quick access to infinite storage from mobile and desktop devices. It launched a public beta in June, but was not available for iOS.
Kim Dotcom’s Mega Is Removing Files at a Frenzied Pace
Kim Dotcom’s latest website, Mega, promised to be a replacement of Megaupload, the file-sharing and mostly-pirated video host site the government took down a year ago. But Mega is a cloud-storage service: Users have access to their files, but no one else, not even the site’s administrators, know what’s in them because they’re encrypted before they reach Mega’s servers.
The Top 8 Free Online File Storage Sites
If your desktop screen looks like the bottom of your trashcan, maybe it’s time to take your files to the cloud. Just in time for 2013, here is our new list of the best free online file storage sites. More than just external hardrives, many of these sites are collaboration platforms that you can use to share documents with friends.
Amid Fallout Over Internet Activist’s Death, Poll Shows Most Americans Favor Mild Punishment for Illegal Downloads
The suicide of 26-year-old Reddit co-founder and open Internet activist Aaron Swartz late last week has reignited the debate over what should be publicly available online and how illegal distribution can be fairly prosecuted just as a new poll shows that just over 10 percent of Americans believe jail time is a reasonable punishment for those who download copyrighted material online.
Megaupload May Have Helped Copyright Holders, Study Finds
The shutdown of Megaupload adversely affected movie box office earnings, according to a paper by European researchers European researchers Christian Peukert and Jörg Claussen.
