Music Cloud Services Go Head To Head Music cloud services have become hugely popular. These digital music lockers are making people pay for music again, and why not? These huge music libraries in the cloud have pretty much every song you could ever want. That is an amazing amount of convenience, made even better by the fact it streams to nearly any device. Music lovers can have high-quality streamed music with actually downloading it. Music lovers are flocking to these digital boutiques to store and access their music. Charles Caldas, chief executive of Amsterdam-based Merlin, said: “The market is showing
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Playing Catch-Up With The Big Boys Microsoft dipped into their pockets a few days ago and shelled out $1.2 billion to purchase the social network Yammer. IBM has set the benchmark by merging cloud computing with social networking. It’s an interesting mix of work and play at the same time. It’s a nice idea, but for one of the world’s biggest companies, they are really lagging behind the other cloud computing giants out there. It is projected that in the next decade the developing and sharing of information through cloud computing technology is going to greatly increase. Cloud computing may
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by cloudtweaks on December 12, 2011
in Cloud Computing, Computing, Guest Writers, Host, iCloud, IT, Security, Storage, Technology, Virtualization, VPN, Web Hosting
There’s a lot of confusion surrounding this elegant approach to marshaling remote computer resources. And, we do not wish to profit from the confusion created by the broad marketing of cloud computing to the public. So here we offer a definition of cloud computing that is easy to understand, accurate, and without marketing hype. 1. Cloud Computing Is Hardware As Software Let’s deal with the first part of our simplified definition of cloud computing – that “cloud computing is hardware as software.” Imagine that hardware resources, like memory and processing power, are replicable and portable like software. This special quality
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by cloudtweaks on September 9, 2011
in Amazon, Cloud Computing, Computing, iCloud, News, Press Release, Storage, Technology, Trends, White Papers
Mobile Consumer Cloud Revenues to Reach $6.5bn by 2016 Driven by Music and Video Services, Says New Juniper Research Study (Hampshire, UK – September, 9th, 2011) High-profile launches from players such as Amazon, Google and Apple are expected to galvanize the growing market for consumer cloud mobility services, generating revenues reaching almost $6.5 billion per annum by 2016, a new report from Juniper Research has found. According to the report, while initial consumer deployments in the cloud were focused primarily on the social networking space, music and video storage/acquisition services such as Amazon’s Cloud Drive and the forthcoming Apple iCloud
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by cloudtweaks on August 17, 2011
in Amazon, Cloud Computing, Computing, Contributors, Google Cloud, iCloud, Mobile, Music, Podcast, Reviews, Storage, Technology
Rdio killed the iTunes star You may have heard of Apple’s iCloud, the Amazon Cloud Player and Google Music Beta, remote music storage services for smartphones, laptops and desktop computers. Rdio is another such service, lesser known but at least equally connected, and with one major advantage over its competitors. Founded by the creators of Skype and KaZaa, Rdio has recently signed deals with Verizon and Telus to make the cloud service an optional feature for telecom clients. There’s a rumour that Rdio is going to be integrated into Facebook, which would be a bonus for the music-free social network
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by sourya on May 25, 2011
in Amazon, Audio, Blogs, Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Images, IT, Music, Security, Social networks, Storage, Technology, Video
How Lady Gaga Punctured Amazon’s Cloud Computing Balloon It is a safe guess that most of the regular readers on this website are not fans of Lady Gaga; so, here’s a brief outline: Born March 28, 1986 and named Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, Lady Gaga came to prominence with her first album, “The Fame”, released in 2008. Since then, she has won five Grammys besides selling fifteen million albums and fifty-one million singles. She is also famous for notching up 10 million followers on Twitter earlier this month, the highest in the world. In other words, she is extremely popular.
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by sourya on April 5, 2011
in Amazon, Apps, Cloud Computing, Computing, Gaming, Movies, Music, News, Storage, Technology, Video
Is Amazon’s Cloud Player a Game changer in the Music Industry? “If music be the food of love, play on.” – From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. Last week, Amazon launched two new services – Cloud Drive and Cloud Player. While the first is a cloud-based storage facility, the second is a music player – available in a browser-based version and one for Android smart phones – that allows the user to stream any music files stored in the Cloud Drive to any compatible device or browser, even if the files themselves had not been synced there. In order to
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