“Microsoft confirmed on Monday that Azure users suffered an overnight outage over the weekend during which their applications weren’t available. “
ComputerWorld Mar 19, 2009
“Business and personal users of Gmail suffered an outage starting about 1:30 a.m. PST Tuesday”
CNet News Feb, 24 2009
“Amazon storage ‘cloud’ service goes dark, ruffles Web 2.0 feathers”
CNet News Feb 15, 2009
“Salesforce.com [...]
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Do you store and share your photos online? Watch out.
“As of February 1st, 2008 the ImageStation online service is permanently closed.”
Sony ImageStation, Feb 1, 2008
“Photo site Digital Railroad derailed completely.” CNet News Oct 29, 2008
“The AOL Pictures online photo service is now closed.” AOL July 14th 2008
“Yahoo Photos going dark as Flickr shines on.” USA [...]
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Quoting Mark Zuckerberg from his offical response to the Facebook’s Change of Terms of Services (TOS) controversy,
More than 175 million people use Facebook. If it were a country, it would be the sixth most populated country in the world. Our terms aren’t just a document that protect our rights; it’s the governing document for how [...]
In the days long gone by, if a company wants to collect your personal information through your PC it has to follow the illegal route. Spyware is secretly bundled in software that you want to install on your PC and the company hopes and prays we (people) download and install them. On top of that, [...]
Anybody who has a facebook account (that includes us) or planning to open a new account should be concerned about certain details in facebook’s Terms of Service. Check out the highlighted area of facebook’s TOS. What it really means is that - ” Facebook literally owns all your user content even if you delete your [...]
Posted in Privacy | Tagged Facebook |
In recent years several online storage sites have popped up like mushrooms after a spring rain. The question is not whom to trust, but why to trust? Banks that have been around almost a century, such as Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, have evaporated into thin air. Other banks that boasted tradition and security needed [...]
Also posted in Other, Tonido | Tagged online storage |
15 years ago, we bought less hardware for more money. This was a time when we shelled out $2000 for a 486 with 64MB RAM and the Internet was getting popular with the advent of email over dialup.
During that time, personal money management systems like Quicken or Microsoft Money only had a desktop version. Microsoft [...]
In recent times, cloud services such as Google apps, Microsoft’s Live services and Adobe’s Acrobat.com are touted as panacea for all your computing needs. If you allow it to work its magic It can even cure common cloud :)… just kidding. If you Google “Live Entirely on Cloud” you will see blog posts explaining why [...]
Exploring Tonido Photos
At a glance, Tonido looks like a simple way to get access to your system running Tonido and get access to your data. This is true for Tonido Webshare and Tonido Jukebox applications. But that is only half the story. Tonido has built in powerful p2p sharing technology that allows Tonido servers to connect to [...]