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Google Drive Experiencing Intermittent Outages
Users of the Google Drive cloud storage solution have been experiencing intermittent outages and accessibility issues this morning. Reports sprang up on twitter that the service was experiencing issues. My first attempt to access the main page of the site at http://drive.google.com/start showed the 502 error “The server encountered a temporary error and could [...]
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Microsoft is merging more Products
Microsoft has made some bold moves as of late and has been merging and converting customers from their messenger platform to Skype, forcing all users to abandon their familiar chat and messaging solution. Well it doesn’t look like Microsoft is stopping there. The Redmond Company has similar plans for a number of products. Users including [...]
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Collaborating in the Cloud
How Cloud Technology Helps Marketing Professionals Maximize Their Time and Performance by Gina Smith I can still remember the good old days working in marketing and public relations. There was no such thing as a “personal” schedule. My office schedule was set according to my clients needs. Times have drastically changed. Gone are the days [...]
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Microsoft goes to War with Google with “Scroogled” Campaign
Microsoft has launched an all out attack on Google in their latest marketing campaign for their Outlook.com solution. The campaign which they call “Scroogled” claims on the website of the same name “if you’re a Gmail user, Google scans all of your sent and received messages, extracts keywords that they think are relevant to you, [...]
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Why Hasn’t the Chromebook Caught On?
In this new world of mobility, tablet, and smartphones, the Google Chromebook would seem to be a good fit in a new cloud-centric environment. Google’s jump into the OS and combined hardware space though has been less than exciting and has yet to really take off with mass users. Initially this may have been from [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 97
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Droves of People finally return home as Google releases Maps App on iOS
Google has finally released its Google maps app for iOS devices just in time to bring people otherwise lost, home for the holidays. The Maps fiasco of 2012 can come to an end, and the people can rejoice now that they are no longer forced to be lost at the hands of Apple Maps in [...]
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Bing just might get Lucky! Google makes it harder to find Explicit Images
Google users across the country have been noticing a change to their daily web surfing habits. Google today implemented changes to its search algorithms that have made it much more difficult to find adult images through its search engine. Considering the recent outage that left many users unable to access their email, Google just might [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 95
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Gmail Down for Many Massive Outage Hits Email Giant
Users across the Internet are reporting a severe outage affecting Gmail. Some are reporting being completely down, others are having intermittent issues, and while some state they can only get to it from mobile devices. Reports started pouring in to Downrightnow.com around 11:38EST that certain users were experiencing an outage. There has been no confirmation [...]
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Bogus Press Release Skyrockets Penny Stock and Uses Google’s Name to do so
The press release seen below went out to the wire via PR Web and was reporting the sale of broadband company ICOA Inc. to Google for a whopping $400M. It appears that the press release that spurred countless news articles and drove shares of ICOA’s penny stock up 122% was bogus. ICOA Inc. that is [...]
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Google’s New Line up of Smart Devices Hit the Market and Quickly Disappear
Google today released its new lineup of smart devices; but good luck getting your hands on one, as they appear to have sold out immediately after launch. The much-anticipated Google Nexus 4 smartphone in both the 8gb $299 and 16Gb $399 versions show “coming soon” on the Google Play Store indicating a sold out status [...]
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Blackberry 10 Finally gets a Launch Date but is it too Late for RIM?
In a press release today (see PR below), the once giant mobile player Research in Motion announced a launch date of January 30th, 2013 for its new Blackerry 10 OS and mobile devices. The company, which has eluded a launch date for some time and has seen droves of users migrate to other platforms, needs [...]
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Do Mini Lines Mean iPad Mini Pricing Not Mini Enough?
Keeping to the mini theme for the iPad Mini launch, lines were kept to a minimum, while mini corn dogs were handed out to those who waited in line, and “mini me” himself Verne Troyer driving a Mini Cooper was spotted in an apparent mini marketing stunt by Apple. Ok I’m kidding, obviously Apple didn’t [...]
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AT&T Jumps into Cloud Business
AT&T has just released news of its new AT&T Locker cloud service see (press release) below. The new service, which will compete with Apple iCloud, Google+, Amazon, and others, provides photo and video storage and sharing to its customer base. The cloud service is enabled through an iOS or droid app, providing instant upload to [...]
