This week in cloud: Amazon upsets Apple; NTT backs Cloud Foundry; cloud taxes in dispute
Amazon is numero uno in consumer appeal, beating out even Apple and Google, according to Harris Interactive. Also, Cloud Foundry gets big backer in NTT and states reconsider sales taxes on cloud services. Amazon bests Apple in consumer appeal Amazon is th.....»»
Blip: Amazon adds Cloud Drive Photos app to iOS repertoire
Apple then iOS, iOS then Android. There can often be a one-followed-by-the-other roll out to apps between the two major OSes (we won't mention Windows Phone 8 or others in this case), and Amazon followed form this week as it launched Cloud Drive Photos ap.....»»
Google Drive triples free storage to 15 GB
We were just talking about how Amazon is competing with Apple and other cloud services by offering 5 GB of storage for free. Now, that turns out to be old news, because today Google announced that free storage spanning several Google services like Gmail, .....»»
Google Drive triples free storage to 15 GB
We were just talking about how Amazon is competing with Apple and other cloud services by offering 5 GB of storage for free. Now, that turns out to be old news, because today Google announced that free storage spanning several Google services like Gmail, .....»»
Just a week after announcing iOS compatibility with Ford Sync, Amazon"s streaming Cloud Player now c
Just a week after announcing iOS compatibility with Ford Sync, Amazon's streaming Cloud Player now comes in a lovely PC desktop app, letting you store and access your music offline.Read more... .....»»
Amazon Cloud Player Launches PC App
As part of its mission to bring its music service "everywhere," Amazon announced the release of a dedicated Cloud Player app for desktop PCs Thursday. The release comes less than a week after Amazon announced iOS compatibility with Ford Sync-enabled vehic.....»»
Google Play Games revealed: Android gaming gets serious
Details of Google Play Games, the Android alternative to Apple’s Game Center, have leaked, with suggestions that the cloud-syncing, leaderboard-scoring, and multiplayer-matchmaking system will debut officially at Google I/O this coming week. Evidenc.....»»
Report: AppleCare extended warranty could become subscription-based
To save money, Apple may also change the way iPhones are repaired. It's been a big week for subscriptions: Adobe announced that its Creative Suite software would be entirely replaced by the subscription-only Creative Cloud service, and now a report f.....»»
Amazon takes on Apple"s Photo Stream with Cloud Drive Photos iOS app
Amazon on Friday released its Cloud Drive Photos app, and corresponding 5 gigabytes worth of free cloud storage, in what is essentially a competitor to Apple's own iCloud-based Photo Stream service. .....»»
Amazon releases Amazon Cloud Drive Photos to compete with Apple Photo Stream
Amazon today released a new app called Cloud Drive Photos. The free app allows you to upload all your iPhone or iPod touch photos to the cloud. The images can be accessed from your iOS device, from your Mac, or from any web browser. You can also upload ph.....»»
Amazon releases Amazon Cloud Drive Photos to compete with Apple Photo Stream
Amazon today released a new app called Cloud Drive Photos. The free app allows you to upload all your iPhone or iPod touch photos to the cloud. The images can be accessed from your iOS device, from your Mac, or from any web browser. You can also upload ph.....»»
Backup your photos to Amazon! Cloud Drive Photos for iOS is here with automatic uploads
Building on its Cloud Drive business, Amazon released a new app that will make it easy for iPhone users to automatically sync their photos to the cloud, putting it into competition with the likes of Apple, Dropbox, and Facebook......»»
Amazon Cloud Drive Photos for iOS takes on Google, Dropbox and Apple
Amazon has launched its Cloud Drive Photos app on iOS today, joining the Android app as a solution for avid mobile photo snappers to automatically have their creations uploaded in the cloud and organized for sharing and viewing. The app looks to take on A.....»»
With Cloud Drive Photos, Amazon makes a play to be the cloud app for iOS photos
Something Amazon is really good at and something Apple is not: the cloud. Amazon hones in on its competitors' cloud-based photo territory on Apple's own platform with a new app. Not happy with PhotoStream on your iOS device? Amazon .....»»
iOS Amazon Cloud Player hits Ford SYNC AppLink-equipped vehicles
This week Ford and Amazon have attached at the hip, pushing their Amazon MP3 app’s connectivity in iOS device to Ford SYNC AppLink-equipped vehicles. Now if a user works with an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad and has a Ford vehicle with SYNC AppLink ab.....»»
The week in cloud: So much for a million clouds; AWS chief takes on private clouds
Shhhhh, it looks like cloud computing is not immune from industry consolidation and Amazon Web Services gets testy about private cloud adoption. Too many clouds chasing too little business? There’s a paradox in the cloud vendo.....»»
The week in cloud: Bezos rationalizes AWS feature churn; OpenStackers cue up news
Amazon's chief vows to keep up the AWS feature race; OpenStack gets two more big backers as vendors cue up news for the OpenStack Summit. Bezos: more is more when it comes to AWS updates, price cuts Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos In his ann.....»»
Cloud wars to rage on with dueling OpenStack, AWS events next week
Can't get enough cloud? Just wait till next week when OpenStack and Amazon Web Services host simultaneous events 3,000 miles apart. Neither of the principal parties would admit this, but the competition between the OpenStack cloud f.....»»
The week in cloud: Google and Amazon cut prices (again); OpenStack Grizzly debuts
Amazon keeps cutting prices of its base level services, but software vendors still say when it comes to deployment, AWS is often not the most cost-efficient option. Amazon and Google trade price cuts. Again The incumbent public clo.....»»
Amazon Brings File Syncing To Cloud Drive, But Lacks Mobile Functionality
In recent months Amazon has done a lot of tweaking to its services as Google and Microsoft attempt to push it off the top spot as storage provider. This week, it has tweaked a little bit more, this time by adding file sync to its Cloud Drive. Read fu.....»»
The week in cloud: AWS goes mobile; Google vows patent pledge; cloud wars rage on
New AWS group appears to gird for mobile development; Google issues non-aggression patent pact; and PayPal caught in cloud war crossfire.Amazon mobilizes Amazon Web Services, which has focused a ton of resources on wooing enterprise developers with higher.....»»