Google launches Docs and Sheets mobile apps

Posted on 01/05/2014 by gene

Google's productivity suite, Google Drive, has seen some nifty improvements lately. But as far as mobile devices are concerned, writing and editing has been a challenge.Thankfully, Google is...

Dropbox Acquires Photo and Document Management Startups Loom and Hackpad

Posted on 18/04/2014 by sumayah

Dropbox was a means of transferring data around between gadgets and individuals on a regular basis. Now it is looking into increasing its capacity for these actions. A series of applications are to...

Equinix Is Productizing Flash Trading Computing Architecture

Posted on 16/04/2014 by forbes

In his new book, Flash Boys, Michael Lewis directs his gleeful analytic spotlight on flash trading. True to form, Lewis tells a heroic story, in this case about how a team from Royal Bank of Canada...

Jeff Bezos Chose the Wrong Forcing Function for AWS

Posted on 10/04/2014 by forbes

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos loves forcing functions. At some point before 2010, Bezos decided that it was time for Amazon Web Services to make some rapid progress, so he started a project to move the...

Dropbox launches Carousel, a new photo gallery app

Posted on 10/04/2014 by gene

Dropbox has announced a new application that will go in par with its storage service. Dubbed Carousel, the app makes it easy for Dropbox users to view and manage their pictures and videos. Dropbox is...

iOS 7 has a bug that lets people bypass Find my iPhone

Posted on 04/04/2014 by shane

Smartphone theft is one of the most common crimes in many areas of the country. People steal smartphones, like the iPhone, because they can easily sell them for a significant amount of money. Since...

Greenpeace says Amazon Cloud Operation Lags On Green Credentials

Posted on 04/04/2014 by forbes

Facebook and Apple used to bear the brunt of Greenpeace’s ongoing campaign for cleaner data centers, but both companies have made strides in energy efficiency and renewable power sourcing and the...

When Good Clouds Go Bad

Posted on 04/04/2014 by forbes

Western Digital has been actively promoting its “My Cloud” cloud backup and remote access for their branded external storage products (they had a significant display of these services at the 2014 CES...

Meet Bitrix the Russian Dropbox Killer

Posted on 02/04/2014 by forbes

Today’s example of a company setting out to compete with the big names in online file synchronization and sharing is Bitrix, a company that, while headquartered in Virginia, has the vast majority of...

Google Goes On Another Spring Clean To Preserve The Profit-Making Potential Of Play

Posted on 02/04/2014 by forbes

Google is amending the policies for mobile apps in Google Play to take into account the current practices in the ecosystem that are at the edge of acceptability. The update to the the Google...