If you live with other people, you know the problem: On Wednesday you notice that you’re out of milk, but you’ve forgotten about that by the time your spouse goes shopping on Friday. Or you write a note on that pad on the fridge, but your handwriting is illegible. Or what if the two of [...]
Millions of people using Microsoft online services—including Hotmail, Office365 and SkyDrive—found themselves temporarily cut off for a couple of hours last night, as the company was hit by what’s being described as a “major service failure.”
So you’ve maybe heard about Amazon offering unlimited server-based music storage (call it “cloud” if you must—I prefer the apparently retro/old-school term “online”). Like me, maybe you have a massive music collection that you’ve shopped around the online scene without success because of service storage limits (take a bow mostly Google Music).
Today Microsoft announced its foray into the cloud with Office 365, a line of collaborative Microsoft Office-like tools that users can access on the web.
The “cloud” is great, until something goes drastically wrong. Sometime on Sunday, online file-hosting service Dropbox pushed out a system update, inadvertently letting anyone log into any Dropbox account without a password.
What does Apple have that Google doesn’t have? Deals with major record labels. According to CNET, Apple’s already signed a deal with EMI so it can stream music to a device nearest you.
At last, we can put the Google Music rumors to bed, because Google has finally launched the darned thing.
Google’s apparently decided they’re going to unveil its music service – with or without the support of music industry execs. Let’s get ready to rock ‘n roll.
For years, Apple’s iTunes has ruled the music-downloading world, conquering unsuspecting tweens one song at a time. But imagine if a new day were to come – one where Amazon would dominate, and you could get the most popular songs for a fraction of the normal price.
Last Thursday’s Amazon SC2 cloud outage made life on the Internet more difficult than usual (what do you do? #1stworldproblems), and as the dust begins to clear we’re finally getting a better survey of the damage done.
In technology’s newest arms race, it appears Apple may have beaten out Google in the dash to the cloud.
