Minus.com Provides Free And Easy File Sharing
I’ve written in the past about online file storage services like Dropbox and how valuable I believe they are for mobile users. Services like Dropbox increase the amount of storage accessible from a...
View ArticleFacebook Search | From Reddit to Wedding | TweetDeck Back to Normal
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View ArticlePirate Bay Moves to the Cloud
The bit-torrent sharing site The Pirate Bay has abandoned its servers and moved its data to the cloud, the Swedish nonprofit said in a blog post. Pirate Bay seemed to be responding to the threat of a...
View ArticlePlanned Megaupload Replacement Site, Me.Ga, Tossed From Gabonese Domain
The government of Gabon, Africa, will bar Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom from forming a new website on the Gabonese domain .ga, the AFP reports. “Gabon cannot serve as a platform or screen for...
View ArticleMegaupload Will Reboot Using New Zealand Domain, Founder Says
Kim Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload, will launch his replacement site on a New Zealand domain, he announced early this morning on Twitter. Since Megaupload was shut down by U.S. law enforcement...
View ArticleMegaupload May Have Helped Copyright Holders, Study Finds
The shutdown of Megaupload adversely affected movie box office earnings, according to a paper by European researchers Christian Peukert and Jörg Claussen. The findings support the theory that pirating...
View ArticleAmid Fallout Over Internet Activist’s Death, Poll Shows Most Americans Favor...
Photo: Fred Benenson via Wikimedia Commons The suicide of 26-year-old Reddit co-founder and open Internet activist Aaron Swartz late last week has reignited the debate over what should be publicly...
View ArticleThe Top 8 Free Online File Storage Sites
If your desktop screen looks like the bottom of your trashcan, maybe it’s time to take your files to the cloud. Just in time for 2013, here is our new list of the best free online file storage sites....
View ArticleKim Dotcom’s Mega Is Removing Files at a Frenzied Pace
Kim Dotcom’s latest website, Mega, promised to be a replacement of Megaupload, the file-sharing and mostly-pirated video host site the government took down a year ago. But Mega is a cloud-storage...
View ArticleBitcasa Emerges From Beta, Promising Instant Access to Infinite Storage
Bitcasa cloud storage service emerged from beta today and launched an iOS app. It launched its public beta in June, but the service was not available for iOS users. Bitcasa promises quick access to...
View ArticleDropbox Acquires Hot Email App Mailbox
Dropbox announced today that it had acquired Mailbox, makers of a popular email app that launched last month. The companies indicated that the acquisition would help Mailbox continue to grow to meet...
View ArticleYahoo Mail Taps Dropbox to Handle Attachments
Yahoo Mail now integrates with Dropbox to handle attachments, the two companies said today. Yahoo is the first email client to offer such integration. “Email attachments can be tricky: they’ve got file...
View ArticleBitTorrent Introduces Syncing Application With No Cloud Storage and No Size...
BitTorrent today launched an alpha version of an application that allows users to sync their files across devices and share them with friends without them being stored on an external server where they...
View ArticleHollywood Tries Giving Content to BitTorrent
The makers of the indie film Arthur Newman took a gamble on digital distribution, releasing a 10-minute promotional video on BitTorrent in the lead-up to its premier this weekend. BitTorrent got an...
View ArticleSpiderOak’s Hive Keeps Cloud-Stored Files Safe From Prying Eyes
SpiderOak today launched Hive, an app allows users to easily sync their files across devices while the files remain encrypted on SpiderOak’s servers. The app comes as part of SpiderOak‘s application...
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