When the Sense 5.5 update hits your HTC One, good news: you’ll be able to snag an additional 25GB of Google Drive storage. Sweet.
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Following the look we got at the device back at the Mobile World Congress, Samsung made it known that its Samsung HomeSync would arriving this month, something that has now taken place alongside a video giving a run down of the Android TV box. With the device comes 1TB of integrated storage, as well as […]
Western Digital, a company that has long been known for its storage solutions – portable or otherwise, and has introduced their new My Cloud range of personal cloud solutions. Just what will the My Cloud from Western Digital be able to deliver? It is best described to be a complete solution for users to help them organize, centralize and secure the digital content from all of their computers and mobile devices, with the ability to access those files regardless of the device that you are using, from just about anywhere in the world. All you need to do is hook up a My Cloud personal cloud drive to the Internet, and you will be able to gain the anywhere, any-device access which you would enjoy from the public cloud. Not only that, there is also the added advantage of not having to fork out monthly fees or having to give up control of your personal data.
With personal cloud storage growing steadily to be the new standard, it would enable users to ensure that both media and files will remain safe and sound at home on your own physical drive, not to mention having the added advantage of being able to access such information via the Internet using any PC or Mac computer, or if you prefer, on tablets and smartphones through the use of mobile apps.
With the My Cloud drive, one is able to share files, stream media and access content from just about anywhere without the need for any monthly fees, not to mention having the peace of mind since you know that your personal cloud resides in your own home – and hence, how physically secure it is, depends on whether Fido is there to complement your home security system or not. Not only that, getting your personal cloud up and running takes just minutes thanks to WD’s rich web-based user interface.
My Cloud will arrive in 2 TB, 3 TB, and 4 TB capacities, and you also have the option of hooking up a compatible USB 3.0 hard drive directly to the USB expansion port on the My Cloud drive, letting you gain an instant increase in storage capacity. Prices range from $149.99 for the 2 TB model all the way to $249.99 for the 4 TB model.
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Better yet, because it’s a local network drive, there’s no need to format it for Mac or Windows, making it compatible with both from the get-go and leaving out the need for any unwanted software. To manage things like users, storage space and advanced settings, Western Digital has introduced the companion My Cloud Dashboard, which can be accessed via a desktop application. On the mobile side, there are apps for iOS and Android that allow users to upload photos, videos, documents and other type of files, as well as integrate with cloud services including Google Drive, SkyDrive and Dropbox. The WD My Cloud is now available starting at $150 for the 2TB model, while the beefier 3TB and 4TB variants are priced at $180 and $250, respectively.%Gallery-slideshow99587%
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Source: WD
Has anyone ever told you that you’ve always got your head in the clouds? Daydreaming isn’t a bad thing because it stimulates your imagination, just as long as you don’t lose sight of reality.
If people stopped dreaming, they’d stop thinking outside of the box and unusually amazing art installations like Cloud Pink wouldn’t come to be.
Using fabric and digitally imposed images of clouds, Korean creative agency Everyware’s Cloud Pink installation gives people the chance to “touch” clouds and literally stick their heads into them.
The best thing about the installation is that it allows visitors to actually interact with it. The projected clouds can be manipulated by touch, so you can move and generate clouds on its digital canvas. Check it out in action in the video below:
[via TAXI]
Google allows for full-sized photo backups — including the newly launched functionality from desktop — on its social network, something it says results in a lot of Google+ users storing RAW photo files. When RAW photographs are viewed, a RAW-to-JPEG conversion takes place so that file size is kept low and the speed of the […]
Remember how popular RealNetworks was with its RealPlayer media player back in the late 90s and early 2000s? It seems there were a high number of videos online that were transcoded into the RealPlayer format, making it nearly impossible to not have a version of the media player on your computer during its peak in popularity. It looks like RealNetworks is attempting to rather big comeback with a new piece of video software as well as storage solutions that will make it possible for its customers to share videos across different devices. (more…)
RealNetworks Launches RealPlayer Cloud original content from Ubergizmo. 
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RealNetworks is trying something a little different with its attempt at launching a cloud service in a very competitive market. It’s combined its upgraded player app with 2GBs of free cloud storage, allowing users to move videos across devices, stream or download them and beam them out to compatible TV sets (via Roku). The new service also means you can share “long videos” from your Android / iOS device to any other video-capable device, and the end-user won’t need to download an app to play it. This is possible through RealPlayer’s new ‘SurePlay’ tech, which auto-formats outgoing videos to the suit screen-size, available bandwidth and storage space of receiving devices. There’s no shortage of compatible hardware, either. Alongside apps Google’s mobile OS and iOS, videos can also be shared or viewed through Windows PCs, Roku TV units and, in fact, any device that can use a web browser. If 2GB sounds a little tight, subscription plans will start at $5 per month for 25GB, and up to $30 per month for 300GB, for those that really can’t stop sharing. We’ve added RealNetwork’s Consumer-facing Matrix (read: price chart) after the break.
Sharing video in the mobile age is still just as clunky and labor intensive as it was in the desktop era. Sure, uploading it to YouTube or Facebook is easy enough—but there are few decent options for sharing them directly with only a few select people. And god help you if you’re trying to share content across platforms. But a new freemium service from Real Media aims to eliminate the hassle of uploading and sharing video altogether.
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The call for greater US government transparency just got louder: Dropbox has filed a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court brief that endorses petitions to disclose exact national security request numbers. Much like LinkedIn, Dropbox believes that limiting disclosures to broad ranges hurts transparency by implying that smaller firms get as many requests as larger rivals. The ban on exact figures also violates a First Amendment right to publish specific information, according to the cloud storage provider. We likely won’t know the effectiveness of the brief for some time — or ever, if the court proceedings remain a secret — but Dropbox can at least say that it made its case.
Filed under: Storage, Internet
Source: Dropbox
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