Cloud

Amazon Cloud Player just got a major content and feature update, the company announced today, while unveiling new music licensing agreements with Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and 150 other partners. As you may know, Cloud Player is a freemium platform that help users access their music in the Continue Reading →

With only 16 GB of local storage, the newest Google Chromebook may appear limited to some. Of course, the Chromebook is meant to be a web-connected device that can lean on near limitless cloud storage. In fact, it works quite well in that use case. But you still have to buy that storage; at least Continue Reading →

Attachments.me is one of my favorite services, as it really does a great job of wrangling all of those attachments in my various Gmail accounts. Today, the service announced Dropbox, Box and Google Drive integration, which allows you to email someone a huge file without having to leave Gmail. With the Attachments.me plugin, all of Continue Reading →

Singapore-headquartered Insync has rolled out a very useful new service for those who spend a lot of time grabbing documents from Gmail or Google-hosted email. Launched today, Insync for Gmail is a super simple way of managing attachments by storing them in Google Drive and Dropbox. It’s been six months since we last caught up Continue Reading →

An artificial “brain” built by a 17-year-old whiz kid from Florida is able to accurately assess tissue samples for signs of breast cancer, providing more confidence to a minimally invasive procedure. The cloud-based neural network took top prize in this year’s Google Science Fair. “I taught the computer how to diagnose breast cancer,” Brittany Wenger, Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120725_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Apple’s newest operating system, Mountain Lion, has finally arrived.  Let’s take a look at the new features it will bring to your Mac: Mountain Lion is more compatible with other iDevices than past operating systems. iCloud plays a much greater role, allowing for easy syncing of media, Continue Reading →

Google’s officially out of stock of 16-gigabyte Nexus 7 tablets. And, according to sources speaking to The Guardian’s Charles Arthur, it’s because the company “seriously underestimated” demand for the seven-inch device. “The Guardian understands that Google’s planners had thought that buyers on the Google Play store, more than from physical or online retailers, would be Continue Reading →

Following the big international roll out of iTunes movies in the Cloud, it looks like Apple and Twentieth Century Fox have finally made films available for U.S. users via iTunes in the Cloud after months of waiting around for it. iTunes movies in the Cloud was initially launched back in March, but Fox and Universal Continue Reading →

Microsoft unveiled the latest version of its productivity suite earlier this week, which focuses on touch optimizations and deeper integration with Microsoft’s cloud-based services. Office 2013 was shown off at great length for the Windows 8 operating system, but it was curious to some that no mention of OS X was made during Microsoft’s press Continue Reading →

Microsoft just announced the next version of its Office productivity suite. If you were hoping that Microsoft would simplify how it delivers Office to its users, though, you will be sorely disappointed. The new Office will come in numerous online and offline versions, as well as the already semi-announced version for Windows RT tablets. In Continue Reading →