LG has revealed its own multi-platform cloud media service, LG Cloud, squirting content between PCs, smartphones, tablets and smart TVs. Compatible with 2D and 3D content, the LG Cloud introduces the company's Real-time Streaming Transcoding technology to perform server-based media conversion to suit whatever device you're currently using; so, if you're on your Android smartphone but want to watch a Full HD .MKV file, the film will be automatically converted to suit the handset.
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LG Cloud looms for 2D/3D multimedia streaming
Huawei to boost R&D for touch-free smartphones
Huawei may be more of an OEM manufacturer for various wireless carriers at the moment, but the China-based company is serious about expanding into the consumer market with its own branded devices and even beyond the realm of hardware. Huawei North America's general manager John Roese revealed that the company plans to increase spending in research and development in order to introduce "disruptive" technologies, which include touch-free devices.
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Dropbox update extends automatic photo uploading to PC, Mac
A couple months ago, Dropbox rolled out an update to its Android app, making it possible for users to seamlessly and automatically upload photos to their cloud storage account without even thinking about it. Now, the company has made the same feature available to computers, giving users the option to push photos to the cloud whenever they plug in a camera or SD card.
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Google Drive fights privacy paranoia
Google Drive may have convinced many cloud storage shoppers on the basis of wallet impact, but the search giant faces skepticism and doubt over the privacy of users’ data. Announced early this week after years of speculation, Google Drive offers 5GB of free space and up to 16TB of extra storage at rates in some cases just half what rivals like Box charge; however, long-standing unease around Google’s privacy policies prompted many to go digging through the cloud service’s terms & conditions, with only confusion to be discovered.
Google Drive falls foul of China firewall
Google Drive has seen China's Great Firewall slam it its cloud-storage face, the latest service from the big search firm to be blocked from billion-strong population. Launched earlier this week to take on DropBox, Box and SkyDrive, Google Drive offers 5GB of free storage and the option of a monthly subscription for extra capacity, using optical character recognition (OCR) to pull text and objects out from photos and PDFs. However, Chinese web users will have to make do with homegrown alternatives.
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Google Drive + Chrome OS = Chromebook rebirth
Google will use Google Drive integration to attempt to reinvigorate adoption of Chromebooks, closely tying the cloud storage service into the Chrome OS-based ultraportables. The new online drive will in effect be used as the default local drive on Chromebooks, Chrome chief Sundar Pichai told Wired, with seamless blending of the local system with internet-based storage space.
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Google Drive for Linux incoming
Google is working on Linux support for its new Google Drive cloud storage service, it has been confirmed, extending the online file service beyond Windows and Mac. The news comes via Google Docs community manager Teresa Wu, who when questioned on Google+ about Linux support told users to "hang tight" as the version for their open-source based machines was being "worked on."
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Sony PlayMemories Online takes on Google Drive
Sony has relaunched its cloud storage service in the aftermath of the Google Drive reveal, rebranding Sony Personal Space as PlayMemories Online and offering 5GB of free storage. PlayMemories Online supports photo, video and audio sync from Android, iPhone and computer clients, as well as access to them from the PS3, Sony's S-Frame digital photo frame, and eventually BRAVA internet-connected TVs.
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Google Drive vs DropBox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, Box
As Google Drive ramps up to clobber the rest of the cloud storage services in the world, or so Google hopes, we've got to explore these services by the numbers one by one. If you're going to head to the cloud right now, where will you go? You've got more than just the small handful we've got listed here, but let's get started with Google Drive, DropBox, Box, SugarSync, and SkyDrive just for starters.
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Gmail gets 10GB bump plus Google Drive bonuses
Google has boosted storage for Gmail users, upgrading free email accounts to 10GB of storage at no extra charge as well as throwing in more space for paid Google Drive users. The free email service had previously been offering around 7.7GB of service to regular users; now, with Google's Dropbox rival on the scene, that's been increased automatically.
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100GB Google Drive due today tip insiders [Updated]
Google Drive will offer up to 100GB of cloud storage when it launches, insiders have claimed, with a public unveil of the multimedia and document store potentially as soon as today. The 100GB maximum will be for paid accounts, Reuters' sources say, with free accounts sticking to the 5GB we've seen rumored before. However, there will also apparently be new search tools to help sift through all those gigabytes of data.
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Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Creative Cloud official
Adobe has officially launched Photoshop CS6, the latest version of its famed image processing software, along with Adobe Creative Cloud, a subscription-based hub offering desktop and mobile tools as well as cloud-sync. Fourteen new apps, either new or updated, have been revealed as part of Photoshop CS6, with Photoshop itself getting new tools and a new Mercury Graphics Engine to use GPU acceleration to boost editing and processing speed. Meanwhile, if the high upfront cost of previous Creative Suite iterations has dissuaded you (or even sent you scurrying to pirated copies) then Adobe hopes its new subscription packages will lure you in.
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