Samsung's Galaxy S III isn't the only new product expected at the company's May 3 event in London; the S-Cloud rival service to Apple's iCloud is also tipped to make its official debut. Full details of the service are unclear, though the long-rumored launch is a lock-in for early next month so the Maeli Business' sources whisper, but unlike Apple there will supposedly be no limits on what type of content can be stored in Samsung's cloud. Interestingly, Samsung confirmed last week that it has a multimedia cloud service in the pipeline.
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Samsung S-Cloud tipped to challenge Apple on May 3
Google Drive app leaks ahead of cloud climax
The Google Drive evidence continues to mount, with new evidence of the local app ready to install from Google and simply awaiting on the service itself to wake up and start offering 5GB of cloud storage. After talk yesterday that Google Drive would launch in a week's time, TechCrunch was pointed in the direction of the OS X desktop app itself, complete with native support for Google's own filetypes from Google Docs and Gdraw.
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Microsoft Office 15 video: “it goes where you go”
If Microsoft's latest official video for the newest edition of Office is anything to go by, the software giant's main focal point in this installment is portability. It's a very stylized video that symbolizes having your Office documents with you at home, on the road, on the train, in rural America...anywhere on the planet. In other words, the wonderful world of Office is ready to marry the cloud.
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Google Drive leaked: 5GB cloud space for free
There’s a new service popping up this week from Google, a cloud service by the name of Google Drive. We’ve heard of this service before, it being akin to Dropbox in its ability to be a cloud server for your files, and now we’ve got word from The Next Web that the service will be launching this Tuesday (a week and a day from now). This service will be 5GB of free space and will be available for access on Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS right out of the box.
Livescribe and Dropbox bring handwritten notes to the cloud
Livescribe has partnered with Dropbox to make its Echo smartpen even more productive for busy note-takers. The Echo smartpen will now be able to automatically sync its notes directly to a user's Dropbox account. And since about 46 percent of Livescribe users also use Dropbox, this is a perfect match for storing handwritten notes in the cloud to be conveniently and securely accessible from anywhere.
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Samsung: Full OLED TV details plus “premium range” reveal in August
Samsung will haul its OLED HDTV to IFA 2012 in late August, the company has confirmed, giving the 55-inch set its official launch along with a new, premium range of TVs. The OLED TV was first shown off at CES back in January 2012, with incredibly narrow bezels, a super-slim depth panel and, of course, the vivid colors and great contrast ratio that we’re used to from OLED screens. Samsung has been coy with pricing, though. Meanwhile, there’s also news on a cloud upgrade for AllShare.
IBM launches cloud-ready PureSystems
IBM has launched a new family of integrated, flexible, and scalable computing systems designed to simplify and automate enterprise cloud computing, acting as building blocks for cloud-ready data centers. The new integrated hardware and software solution is called PureSystems and will kick off with two models, PureFlex System and PureApplications System, that will begin shipping this quarter.
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HP Converged Cloud launched to crush Amazon
Today the folks at HP have launched a cloud service known as HP Converged Cloud, an effort by the company to recapture some of its former dominance by entering the all-encompassing cloud. This new service will start with on-demand instances and virtual machines on the 10th of May officially in a direct forward frontal attack on Amazon's similar services. HP plans on taking on the competition with virtual space as well as Infrastructure as a Service, one storage service for moving data across instances, the other a database tool for MySQL.
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Box’s OneCloud pushes enterprise to the cloud
It looks like Box is the first to truly tackle the issue that we all know is the current problem with cloud-based storage services - an unnecessary emphasis on proprietary platforms and a lack of universal access. The innovative cloud provider Box wants saving something to the Internet as easy as, well, clicking the "save" button. Enter OneCloud, a product that is not a new cloud platform, but an entire cloud infrastructure.
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Sony PlayMemories offers cloud-based media storage
Sony is entering a market that many are competing to grab a stake in right now - the cloud. More specifically, the media cloud. The company is launching a new service called PlayMemories, which will give users 5 GB to store their favorite image and video files. Those files can then be accessed and modified on a variety of devices. What's different about this versus other cloud platforms is its presence in gaming.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: March 27, 2012
Happy Tuesday, everyone. March is quickly coming to an end, and as spring begins to fully blossom, the tech news cycle is as strong as ever. Today, Xbox Live added HBO, MLB, and Comcast to its streaming video services. In addition, Apple's VP has responded to iPad battery fervor. And in response to all the recent controversy, Senators are investigating Facebook password privacy.
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Google Drive cloud storage tipped for April
This Spring we're likely to see what for so long has been a mythical creature waiting to pounce on the world of costly cloud storage: Google Drive. This system would and will be an online file storage system run by Google which will be revealed, if sources speaking with Om Malik of GigaOM are correct, early this April. This system has been rumored for several years and indeed did pop up under a different name in 2010, with Google allowing you to upload documents and files to Google Docs, but this is the real deal folks.
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