With Ubuntu One, Canonical, the cooperation behind Ubuntu, takes on Amazon. Now the cloud also comes to all the Linux fans. Ubuntu has launched Ubuntu One, which is a service very similar to Amazon’s Cloud Drive. With Ubuntu One you get 5 GB of storage for free and furthermore there are apps for both Android [...]
READ MORE »Dublin City University to hand out chromebooks
A new acadamic year has just started and a selected group of students at Dublin City university will be surprised to see a chromebook among their books. The largest provider of online education in Ireland, Dublin City University, has now taken the next step in making their teaching even more online available. Yesterday they announced, [...]
READ MORE »The justification of cloud computing
Why do we need cloud computing at all? What is wrong with the way we are using computers today? Is cloud computing just the vendors finding a new way of earning a daily profit? The short answer is no. A new product of course means new money for the vendors, but in a more globalized [...]
READ MORE »Cloud computing – for the environment
Cloud computing does not just reduce costs of hardware. Danish studies shows, that huge energy savings are also to be found. If you have read just a little about cloud computing, you already know that businesses can save quite a lot on hardware by changing to cloud computing. One thing might be a longer lifetime [...]
READ MORE »List of free cloud storage providers
Everyone likes free storage. Today Cloudblogonline provides you with an extensive list of the free storage providers out there. Name Link Free Upgradable Files Anywhere http://filesanywhere.com 1 GB Yes Drive HQ http://drivehq.com 1 GB Yes Steekr http://www.steekr.com 1 GB Yes Wula http://www.wuala.com 1 GB Yes Flipdrive http://www.flipdrive.com 1 GB Yes Storegate http://www.storegate.com 1 GB [...]
READ MORE »iCloud – Apple joins the cloud
With iCloud, you will never again have to worry about your music, images, contacts and similar content. Apple’s service stores it all in the cloud automatically. This fall Apple launches the new service iCloud. We get more and more mobile devices, and we want access to our data everywhere. This creates the need for iCloud. [...]
READ MORE »How to get a cloudbased computer for less than $100
Today you need to have at least one computer at home. Here comes a guide to how, you can add another cheap computer. Are you a student, or a parent, with teenagers who think you have deep pockets? Then you know that investing in a new computer, does not come cheap. In this guide you [...]
READ MORE »Review: Huddle
When governments choose Huddle as their collaboration platform, there must be something about it. With its launch in 2007 Huddle became one of the first cloudbased platforms for collaboration and project management. Since the launch they have experienced great success and are now used by both the UK government as well as fortune500 companies like [...]
READ MORE »SMEStorage – cloud storage made easy
SMEStorage gives you easy acces to up to 10 different cloud storage providers. When you sign up with SMEStorage you get 2GB of free storage and the possibility of integrating several storage providers with your account. The great thing is that you can integrate Microsoft Skydrive with your account and by this get 25 GB [...]
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