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Chinese search giant Baidu today announced a new strategic partnership with Qualcomm. The partnership will allow having free personal cloud storage over Android devices which are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors, The Next Web reports. The qualifying device owner will get 15GB of storage for one year with another 15GB of storage for the lifetime of the...

Back in October, Microsoft announced that it had acquired Cloud-integrated Storage (CIS) solutions provider StorSimple. The Next Web is reporting now that the acquisition has been completed although still the deal terms were not out, but StorSimple had asked for some $31.5 million. The deal lets now combines the data management functions of primary storage, backup,...

Nokia has introduced the first location cloud name HERE in order to deliver the world’s best maps and location experiences over the multiple screens and operating systems. The Finnish company aims to inspire a whole new generation of location services and devices through its new brand, HERE. The company also announced the launch of a map application for iOS under the HERE brand, extending its location services. The application will include offline capabilities, voice-guided walk navigation and public transport directions, although the...

In order to make its whole system stronger and powerful and even police raid-proof, The Pirate Bay has ditched its servers and opted to move to several cloud-hosting providers in different countries worldwide. According to TorrentFreak, choosing the cloud cuts down on resources and even should reduce the site’s downtown for users, and over the top the data should...

Microsoft announced this morning that it has acquired Cloud-integrated Storage (CIS) solutions provider StorSimple. The CIS solutions provider combines the data management functions of primary storage, backup, archive and disaster recovery with cloud integration, allowing customers to optimize storage costs, data protection and service agility. Terms of the deal...

According to Central News Agency (CNA) Friday, Asus is planning to build three more data centers worldwide by early 2013 in order to meet increasing demand for cloud services from users. The company currently having three data centers in Taipei, Taiwan, Shanghai, China, and Los Angeles, U.S.A., providing cloud services to 10 million users worldwide, said Any Huang, Asus Cloud director. The places Asus is considering for its new centers are Tianjin, Harbin and Chongqing in China; Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Ireland in Europe; and Boston in...

Amazon’s AWS today announced at its AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC that over 300 government agencies and 1,500 education institutions  are using the service for wide range of users which includes big data analytics, high performing computing, web and collaboration applications, archiving and storage, and disaster relief. “Government agencies and...

Aaron Levie, Founder and CEO took the stage at Box’s second annual Boxworks conference and have shared some amazing statistics about the company. He started by sharing that by 2011, the company has about 7 million registered users spanning over 100,000 businesses. And now the company hold a tremendous growth with over 140,000 businesses signed up with over 14 million...

SAP and Box has announced a partnership at Boxworks conference in order to bring mobile security to the Cloud. SAP’s VP of mobile strategy Nick Brown discusses on how the partnership would help delivering content to users faster and safer. The partnership with Box helps the company to receive the necessary base security, enable better management of application deployment and delivery of content efficiently. Box back in May had launched enterprise license agreements, bringing IT admin features, and now with the announcement will lead...

What it sounds like being on the internet and looking out for great online videos content libraries and that too without any geographic location limitation i.e. one can access those from anywhere in the world. Sounds like good, but have not heard of any service yet. Well, I came across one such service name Unotelly, offering customers access to online video content...