Tag: Cloud
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RIM to acquire cloud company for new services on Blackberry gadgets
Research in Motion (RIM) has made its intentions known that it is very interested in bringing cloud-based services to its popular Blackberry range of products which includes smartphones such as the recently released Blackberry 9810 (or Touch 2) and the Blackberry Playbook tablet. Canadian tech company RIM is currently eyeing the Irish firm NewBay which…
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Google Docs app redesign makes things easier for tablets
If tablets have thrown up one major problem to website and app developers, it’s this: how do you make something functional and easy to use on on a touchscreen device? It’s an issue that Google’s clearly been thinking about of late, as it’s just added another app to its list of redesigns: Google Docs. Don’t…
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Apple Store “We’ll be Back” Post-It is up – Incoming iPhones
We are not quite sure why we are excited about this but Ladies and Gentlemen…. The Apple Store is down and the “We’ll be back” Post-it of excitekment is now officially up on the Apple store website. A few times a year we get to see the Post-It and what it normally means is some new Apple…
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Facebook adds malicious link scanning and racism blocking to social net safety
Facebook will be doubling it’s fight on unpleasant attacks on our accounts and gadget health, with it’s Web of Trust scheme by implementing a link scanning system through a partnership with San Diego based web safety co. Websense. With it becoming ever-more easy to share content socially and friend clicking each other’s shared links numerous…
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Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet Officially Announced – Android and Kindle for $199
Amazon’s first Android tablet, the Kindle Fire, has been officially announced. We’ve got all the details
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HTC Partners with Dropbox to offer 5GB Cloud Storage to Smartphone Owners
HTC has announced a partnership with Cloud Storage company Dropbox, in a move which will bring free cloud storage to new HTC smartphone owners. Microsoft already offers its own version of cloud storage, Skydrive, for Windows Phone users, and Apple are launching iCloud for iPhone users next month, and so this deal ensures HTC are…
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Cloud Gaming Launches in the UK with OnLive
A new generation of gaming begins today, as the Cloud-Gaming system OnLive officially launches in the UK. OnLive brought their cloud gaming system to the EuroGamer expo in London to show it off yesterday, after the service received a warm welcome and a lot of success in the U.S. The product consists of a small…
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Apple iCloud vs. Google Cloud: Aren’t they the same thing?
Our good friends over at Mobiles.co.uk and their blog team have posed and offered the answer to one of the big questions on everyones lips at the moment: Apple iCloud vs. Google Cloud: Aren’t they the same thing? Well, yes and no. While both services talk about Cloud computing, both actually do it in a…
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OnLive cloud gaming service confirms UK release date
Game-streaming game-changer set to land here this autumn
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Amazon gets one over on Apple – Cloud allows eBook sales to continue on iPad
Amazon has sneakily got the best of Apple, after the Californian tech-bully attempted to halt in-app purchases of eBook from the online retailer on its own gadgets. By cleverly employing the web-based Cloud, Amazon has set up Kindle Cloud Reader, a service which allows readers to make their purchases online rather than through an app…
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Apple TV Update coming for Cloud based TV streaming
Customers in the US with and Apple TV set-top box will be the first to receive cloud based downloading via a new software update which will allow users to buy shows from iTunes and watch them on-demand over the cloud. The latest software update is 4.3 and will allow users access to the recently launched…