Ignore the Web page, the Amazon Cloud Drive App. will run on XP. Google Drive isn’t the holy grail of personal cloud services. But, Google Drive’s introduction has forced all the other players to up their game. Microsoft added paid storage options to SkyDrive. Dropbox doubled the free storage you got for bringing friends and [...]
Continue reading → Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet’s sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news [...]
Continue reading → Automatic translation is going to Gmail. Do you have friends and co-workers around the world who have trouble reading English? Or, on the other hand, do you speak Spanish, French, or German, but have to deal with sending e-mail constantly to those darn Americans who never, ever speak a second language? Well for both of [...]
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Continue reading → I worked briefly with Microsoft UK in 2006 but no longer have any connection with the company. Regardless, I remain impartial and unbiased in my views. I don’t hold any stock or shares, investments or industrial secrets in any company, but have signed confidentiality agreements with a number of UK and U.S. organisations, whose names [...]
Continue reading → Doug Henschen had a fun piece on Information Week about the latest round in the war of words bubbling up over SAP HANA v Oracle Exalytics. I’m not going to dive into the technical ‘he said/she said’ stuff because a) I don’t claim to fully understand it and b) it’s irrelevant for the purposes of my [...]
Continue reading → The U.S. Department of the Interior has switched horses and is now going with Google Apps rather than Microsoft’s hosted e-mail/collaboration alternative for its 88,000 employees. Originally, the DOI’s plan was to go with Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) to replace its agency-wide e-mail system. But in October 2010, Google and its partner Onix [...]
Continue reading → I worked briefly with Microsoft UK in 2006 but no longer have any connection with the company. Regardless, I remain impartial and unbiased in my views. I don’t hold any stock or shares, investments or industrial secrets in any company, but have signed confidentiality agreements with a number of UK and U.S. organisations, whose names [...]
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If you’re looking for free (or cheap) online storage, you have a bewildering assortment of options. For Windows users, though, three services stand out from the crowd. Dropbox, Microsoft’s SkyDrive, and Google Drive are superficially similar: You get several gigabytes of free storage just for signing up. By installing a small Windows app you get [...]
Continue reading → Paula Rooney has covered the technology industry for more than 15 years, starting with semiconductor design and mini-computer systems at EDN News and later focused on PC software companies including Microsoft, Lotus, Oracle, Red Hat, Novell and other open source and commercial software companies for CRN and PCWeek. She received a silver award from the [...]
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