iCloud

iPhoto 12 Coming to Mac OS X This Summer – Report – Softpedia

iPhoto 12 will reportedly allow users to create a photo album and share it through Apple’s iCloud, and the software will only work on OS X Lion and the upcoming Mountain Lion. iPhoto 12 will not be compatible with Snow … Continue reading

Google Drive privacy policies are extremely similar to Dropbox, SkyDrive, & iCloud – Venturebeat.com

After Google Drive finally launched Tuesday, it was only took a day for people to begin prodding Google about just how private stored files would be using the service. However, Google’s policy is quite similar to already established rivals …

Hands On With Google Drive: Cloud Storage for Google Loyalists – Wired News

But if you’re already using a cloud service, or maybe even a couple of services — I actually use a combination of existing Google products, Dropbox and Apple’s iCloud — the question undoubtedly becomes, Do I really need another cloud … Continue reading

Google Drive files can end up in ads, even though you still own them – Ars Technica

In a comparison piece, The Verge noted that the terms of service from four major cloud storage services—Dropbox, iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive, and Google Drive—all claim no ownership of the files you give them. Several publishing outfits raised the alarm …

Apple, C. Ore. officials make data center tax deal – Yahoo Finance

Apple needs storage capacity for its iCloud service to store customers’ photos, music and movies. It has a large data center in North Carolina and is building a 100-acre, 20-megawatt solar array there. PacifiCorp has said it will provide power … Continue reading

Snow Leopard DVDs Begin to Arrive in the Mail – Softpedia

Apple is getting MobileMe customers to hop aboard the iCloud by offering them free copies of Mac OS X version 10.6 aka Snow Leopard. The software is the interim step between OS X Leopard (v.10.5) and OS X Lion (v. … Continue reading

Online Storage and Sharing Space Sees Growth in Revenue, Solutions Providers – TMCnet

“They have not been effective in addressing the threat that comes from more cloud-based infrastructure like the iCloud from Apple or cloud-based solutions like Dropbox.” In reporting financial results for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2011, Carbonite …

Storage service Google Drive launched – Denver Post

The curtain was raised Tuesday on Google Drive, the online-search giant’s answer to storage services such as Apple’s iCloud and DropBox. About 20 technology companies have partnered with Google to launch applications that will work with the long …

iCloud Now Has over 125 Million Users – Techie Buzz

Whoa, that was fast! Just in January, Apple reported that iCloud had 85 million users. Today, during Apple’s quarterly earnings call, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer revealed that the company’s iCloud service has attracted 125 million users in the roughly …

Apple: iCloud continues growing, now over 125M users – MacNN

Apple’s high sales of iOS devices, along with continuing Mac growth, continues to push the free iCloud service to remarkable levels of membership, with CFO Peter Oppenheimer revealing during the March quarter analyst conference call that iCloud had reached …