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Microsoft’s Office 365 Consumer Edition Doubles To 2M Subscribers Since May

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILHELM Today at its analyst event, Microsoft announced a new milestone for its Office 365 Home Premium product: 2 million subscribers. That’s up 100 percent, or 1 million subscribers, since May 29. Office 365 Home Premium is the company’s cloud productivity suite for consumers that they pay for on a subscription basis. Previously, Microsoft touted that it had signed up its first 1 million consumer subscribersfor Office 365 Home Premium in…

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iCloud website gets iOS 7 makeover, fresh app interfaces

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As reported on Engadget. By Mariella Moon To prepare for iOS 7 bursting out of the developer bubble into public release, Apple has clothed the iCloud website in raiment that reflects the new platform’s looks. Next time you log into the website, you’ll be greeted not only with redesigned icons, but also with fresh app interfaces — Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Notes, Reminders and Find my iPhone got complete makeovers. The iWork for iCloud beta apps still retain their old UIs, but…

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Business Cloud Security

Shine Security Is Reinventing The Antivirus Company For The Age Of Zero-Day Attacks

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ Launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco,Shine Security is reinventing the idea of what it means to be an antivirus company in an age of cyber-warfare and zero-day attacks. The company’s technology was built by white hat, ethical hackers, and works in real time, performing behavioral monitoring on end users’ systems in order to stop newly emerging threats that other anti-virus firms have yet to discover or identify. It may…

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Philips Cloud TV will stream ‘hundreds’ of internet channels to its latest Smart TVs

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent Philips has just launched Cloud TV at IFA 2013, a service that’ll work on its latest Smart TVs including the hot-off-the-press Philips 9000 4K series. It’ll bring streaming of “hundreds of local, national, international and special interest channels” to 2012 or newer Philips Smart TV models. An app will also be available for those sets to scan all that content, most of which will be free. The company also announced Cloud Explorer,…

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Cloud Culture Tech

The Science Of Reddit: Why Some Ideas Dominate The Net

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN The Internet is not a perfect meritocracy, where the best ideas naturally rise to the forefront of the national conversation. It is easy to game the popularity of some ideas by exploiting the fact that Internet users are overly optimistic sheep who blindly rate the value of stories positively if they first see that others already liked it. In a brand-new study, one of my favorite researchers, New York University’s…

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Application Cloud

Comcast tests cloud DVR app for iOS, brings live TV and recordings to mobiles

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler Comcast announced plans for cloud based recordings with its upcoming X2 platform rollout, but FierceCable has spotted an iOS app in iTunes that’s ready for the feature. Published by Comcast Interactive Media, the Comcast Labs DVR app promises access to user’s cDVR service while behind their Comcast modem. What we can see of the UI is very basic, but the setup screens promise a “revolutionary new DVR that streams live TV and…

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Google, IBM and NVIDIA partake in OpenPOWER Consortium, a dev group for data centers

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As reported on Engadget. By Darren Murph It’s a rare occurrence to see Google, NVIDIA and IBM working lockstep towards a common goal, but the aforesaid trio has joined Mellanox and Tyan in order to launch a development group for data centers. The aptly-titled OpenPOWER Consortium is hailed as a “development alliance based on IBM’s POWER microprocessor architecture.” We’re told that it intends to concoct “advanced server, networking, storage and GPU-acceleration technology aimed at delivering more choice, control and…

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Google Explains Why Its Cloud Service Is Different When It Comes To Lock-In

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS A Google engineer concluded on his Google+ page last week that a cloud platform can’t be built without some form of lock-in. That’s evidently true but there really is one main reason for making such a point. Google wants to show that it is not much different from its competitors when it comes to this hot topic with cloud customers. The post by Google Engineering Director Peter Magnusson has to be read…

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Application Cloud

Maxthon Is A Cloud-Based Browser For Power Users

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU Maxthon may not have the name recognition of Chrome, Firefox or Safari, but the cloud browser has gained a global following of more than 100 million unique visitors per month in 140 countries. Karl Mattson, the company’s vice president, says Maxthon’s growth has been driven in large part by Web developers and gamers who appreciate its built-in memory management, Flash, GPU acceleration and HTML5 support. “We really see a lot of…

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Netflix Max hands-on: Jellyvision’s take on your movie queue

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As reported on Engadget. By Sean Buckley Being a Netflix subscriber is almost like being cursed — sure, you have access to untold troves of streaming TV shows and films, but how do you choose what to watch? The burden of choice weighs heavily on the indecisive Netflix user, trapping them in a labyrinth of enticing categories, familiar recommendations and episode backlogs. Admit it, you don’t know jack about picking out a good flick, which is exactly why Netflix created…

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