When we think about the cloud—that place all of our data is increasingly being stored—it's easy to imagine that moving everything online should be good for the environment, but that's not always the case. A new report from Greenpeace reveals that while a number of leading companies are doing their best not to create a sustainable environment others, namely Twitter and Amazon, are...
The free ride is almost over SugarSync users who have been enjoying the service’s free 2GB tier received some news today that they may find hard to swallow. Beginning February 8, 2014, SugarSync will no longer welcome freeloaders to the fold, and instead will adopt a paid-only model. On the bright side, customers will still be able to try the service at no cost for 90 days and 5GB (or...
MediaFire has finally released an app for Android, so now you can also get in on that sweet, sweet offer of 50GB of free storage. Cloud storage services just seem to be handing out more and more free storage every time you turn around. Did anyone really see 50GB becoming the near industry standard? I sure didn't. And now that MediaFire has finally come to Android as of today, users of...
Pogoplug is a solid option for those who'd rather roll their own clouds than use commercially available services, so long as you can deal with some niggling software issues. Or, get one and hack it to open up the possibiltiies.
On Monday, LG announced its new cloud storage solution, LG Cloud. Aside from an uninspired name, the Korea-based tech giant’s new storage service will offer users an almost industry standard free 5GB of storage space, with owners of LG smart TVs and smartphones receiving a free 50GB of storage for the first six months. So, if you’re setup is anything like Tony Stark’s (at least in the...
I am returning my new iPad. It’s not that I don’t like it. I’ve always been a pixel-density devotee, and the new display really does it for me. It’s just that after less than a week, I have come to realize that it doesn’t have enough. Storage, that is. I have 112 audio files, mostly songs, but also including three of the most recent episodes of ten of my favorite podcasts. I have...
In the tech world, you can forget everything you know about the scientific properties of a cumulus or cirrus formation, for here, cloud means “remote data storage.” This means you can store files in space, or on remote servers that will sync all of your devices together and allow you to share them. It seems as though everyone wants a piece of the cloud pie these days, but I went ahead...
Amazon is selling the new Lady Gaga album, Born This Way, for the insanely low price of $.99. While it is certainly garnering the site the attention it is sure to have desired, the negative tone is probably not what they were hoping for. Lets say your company launched a new cloud music service called Cloud Player nearly two months ago, but hardly anyone seems to be paying attention to...