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RapidShare ordered to filter user uploads

, Mar 16th 2012 Discuss [5]

Popular online file sharing service RapidShare has been ordered by the Higher Regional court of Hamburg to proactively filter user uploads to prevent illegal sharing of copyrighted content. The court's decision upholds three separate rulings that involved complaints brought on by music rights conglomerate GEMA and two by book publishers. Read The Full Story

Apple to shutter iWork.com on July 31, moving to the iCloud

, Mar 9th 2012 Discuss [1]

Apple today announced that it will be shutting down its iWork.com document sharing service on July 31. The service was first launched in 2009 as Apple's version of Google Docs but it has remained in beta ever since. It's fate was sealed, however, when Apple launched the iCloud last year. Read The Full Story

Hollywood partners with Wal-Mart to offer “disc-to-digital” scheme

, Mar 8th 2012 Discuss [4]

The movie industry have been scrambling to find the best solution to piracy lately. Last month Fox and Warner Bros. partnered with SanDisk and Western Digital to launch their “Project Phenix” initiative, allowing you to move DRM laced content via their hard drives. The digital locker service UltraViolet also launched back in January, and reportedly has 750,000 registered users so far. Read The Full Story

Fox, Warner, SanDisk, and Western Digital announce new ‘Project Phenix’ DRM

, Feb 29th 2012 Discuss [5]

Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. studios along with storage device makers SanDisk and Western Digital have teamed up to announce a new "Project Phenix" (intentionally mispelled) initiative that's aimed at making high-definition digital movie content available across multiple devices. The new digital rights management (DRM) standard is the brainchild of the Secure Content Storage Association (SCSA) and is being developed to be compatible with UltraViolet so that users can download movie content from the cloud as well as transfer it via compliant storage devices to be played on approved TVs, tablets or other media players. Read The Full Story

Dropbox adds automatic image upload with latest update

, Feb 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you are a Dropbox user, the Android app has a new feature that I think you'll like. The new feature gives you the ability to automatically sync photos you take with your smartphone to the Dropbox storage account. The coolest part is unlike some other applications that offer this capability; Dropbox allows you to upload any size photos. Read The Full Story

OnLive Desktop Plus gives iPad superspeed Flash

, Feb 23rd 2012 Discuss [8]

OnLive Desktop may have stumbled upon the best way to get Flash content on an iPad: host the CPU-hungry tech on a server as far away as possible from your tablet, and simply stream over the results. In an update to the OnLive Desktop remote access app, first released last month, OnLive Desktop Plus adds gigabit-speed accelerated browsing with full Adobe Flash support, delivering what the company says isn't just the fastest full-browsing experience when mobile, but the fastest experience on any platform. Read The Full Story

Samsung S-Cloud cloud-based storage service delayed tips source

, Feb 21st 2012 Discuss [5]

It seems like everyone is going to cloud storage today, and companies are rushing to get their own cloud storage solutions on the market. Microsoft is working on a cloud storage solution. Apple has a cloud storage solution coming, and several others are already available on the market. Samsung has been busy trying to roll out a cloud storage competitor to Apple's iCloud called S-Cloud. Sources are now claiming that Samsung's offering has been delayed. Read The Full Story

New unconfirmed Microsoft SkyDrive features tipped

, Feb 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

Some new features have surfaced that will be included in Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud-based storage solution. Microsoft hasn't confirmed these features, but they're said to be part of SkyDrive Wave 5 M3. One of the new features is the ability to manage BitLocker recovery keys that are stored on SkyDrive. The feature will allow you to recover forgotten passwords easily. Read The Full Story

Google Drive spotted in the wild

, Feb 16th 2012 Discuss [8]

It’ll be one massively definitive day when Google unleashes what we still must guess the details of: Google Drive, their soon to be revealed cloud storage service. This service is said to be a free service for most average citizens and businesses with a premium option with added space available also at launch. What we’re seeing here today is a screenshot of what one user speaking with GeekWire says is the current way Google Drive looks behind the scenes – looks familiar, yes?

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QuickShot with Dropbox for iPhone Review

, Feb 13th 2012 Discuss [2]

The app you’re about to see a very brief review of requires little introduction and only a small explanation as it’s only got a couple of functions, and it does them well. This app is made to do three things: capture video, capture photos, and upload media to Dropbox. This app does this uploading function in a unique manner as we’ve seen no application work with Dropbox in the background as effectively or in as perfectly simple a manner as we’re seeing here – it just works!

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Acer CloudMobile Android 4.0 ICS smartphone revealed and detailed

, Feb 10th 2012 Discuss [5]

Today Acer has both revealed the Acer CloudMobile smartphone and shown it to be a winner of the iF design award 2012. This award is given to Acer for the smartphone for recognition of outstanding achievement in design, and the device is set to be revealed again in detail at Mobile World Congress 2012. This device is the first smartphone in the Acer line to offer AcerCloud technology and is set to be released with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich aboard. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 9, 2012

, Feb 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

When the cloud gets tough, Google gets going, and inside sources are letting the world know that the big G is preparing a service called Google Drive to bring the fury. In the hacked up world of information releases, Apple's been hit through Foxconn and order data has been spilled. In the quad-core world, the Tegra 3 from NVIDIA may well be the head gun at Mobile World Congress 2012 for HTC - can't wait for the HTC edge to take the crown back for mobile dominance for HTC! Read The Full Story
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