Apparently consumers were more interested in storing information on their devices than in a cloud storage service.
Vandevanter started his probe by generating URLs using the names of major companies and sites that use Amazon's cloud storage service.
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For example, if your photos are all stored in a cloud storage service in the future, how do you get them on Facebook?
As you'd expect, Keep is integrated with Google Drive, the cloud storage service Google wants anyone who uses anything it makes to use.
The cloud storage service just resolved two of those common power user gripes in one fell swoop through an update to the desktop client.
It offers Web services like cloud computing and cloud storage service offerings, in which it competes with bigger players like Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com.
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Just to name a few: enhanced security, phone finder, Chinese voice assistant (apparently with 85 percent comprehension accuracy), more interactive themes and 5GB of cloud storage service with online client.
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But some steps we take to be more productive, such as setting up a team account on a cloud storage service, or bringing a personal tablet into the office, can inadvertently open holes in corporate defenses.
And, at least at first, the only way you can get files into and out of OnLive Desktop is through its Web-accessible cloud-storage service.
Google has launched a cloud-based storage service called Google Drive that competes with Dropbox, Sugarsync and other cloud storage systems to offer both free and paid storage that synchronizes with PCs and Macs.
Cubby is built on LogMeIn's own cloud data sync and storage service - not hosted on a third party cloud data platform - and takes advantage of the same online-banking-level encryption capabilities used in LogMeIn's connectivity offerings (like LogMeIn Free and Pro, LogMeIn Rescue and join.me).
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Rackspace also said it is installing a tiered pricing system for its open cloud products, starting with its Cloud files object storage service.
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Next year, the company plans to launch a cloud-based storage service to add personal content to your music collection, including tracks not in the Xbox Music catalog.
In cloud computer service and storage operators like EMC, NetApp and Red Hat are big market share winners.
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Jesse Lipson is CEO of ShareFile, a cloud-based file storage service.
Amazon also introduced its online storage service Cloud Drive last year.
Starting today, Cloud Drive will be used for file storage and Cloud Player will be used for music storage and playback - each service will offer separate subscriptions.
Canonical's personal cloud service, Ubuntu One, provides storage and media services, file sharing and a secure transaction service which enables partners to integrate their own service offerings easily.
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LiveScribe has also added a cloud service with 500 megabytes of storage so that people can upload Pencasts for people to access from mobile devices.
In a comparison piece, The Verge noted that the terms of service from four major cloud storage services -- Dropbox, iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive, and Google Drive -- all claim no ownership of the files you give them.
That would be pretty decent for the specs we know so far: 4.5-inch qHD IPS gapless display, MSM8225Q quad-core chip, dual-SIM support, an eight-megapixel main camera (which produced reasonably good photos, from what we could see), a two-megapixel front-facing camera, and Baidu cloud service integration with 15GB of storage for life, plus another 15GB free for one year.
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Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.
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The data can also be uploaded to a special cloud service where it can be archived for long-term storage.
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The service can be employed across Android and iOS, implementing cloud data storage, leaderboards, achievements, multiplayer functionality, push notifications, and in-app purchases -- essentially exactly what OpenFeint once aimed to provide.
Cubby is the first service built on LogMeIn's very own cloud data sync and storage platform letting people turn any number of PC or Mac folders into 'cubbies' that can be accessed from other devices, stored in the cloud, and shared with colleagues and friends.
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Amazon.com (AMZN) late Monday announced the launch of Amazon Cloud Drive, a Web-based online locker service, with a particular focus on music storage.
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That same year, Microsoft launched its SkyDrive storage service as many consumer tech companies began to see the value of shifting consumers to the "cloud" convincing users to rent digital space, rather than owning it on their computers.
The cloud-storage concept is catching on in lots of ways, but music, as buzz about Amazon's new service shows, seems to be the next frontier in this cloud expansion.
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