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Kim Dotcom’s new Mega storage service is now live!
One year ago Megaupload was taken down by offcials, now Kim Dotcom’s new file storage service Mega is finally live. The new Mega service is straight competitor to popular file storage service like DropBox. The new Mega offers simple drag-and-drop solution with heavy encryption, which is intended to protect both site’s owners and users from copyright infringement issues. All users will get 50GB of storage on Mega’s servers, and the service also offers paid options too. 500GB for $9.99, 2TB for $19.99 and 4TB for $29.99. You’ll find new Mega site from the source link after the break.
As of this minute one year ago #Megaupload was destroyed by the US Government. Welcome to Mega.co.nz
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) tammikuu 19, 2013
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SkyDrive updated with new features for 2013!
Microsoft’s cloud based service, SkyDrive, has been updated with new features. SkyDrive interface is through web service and it allows user to create files and folders. SkyDrive team has now added new features for 2013. New features includes improved sharing, speed and touch responsiveness to the latest update. Other new features are Integrated view of sharing permissions, Improved selection for touch-based devices and Improved drag-and-drop support. Seems that SkyDrive team hasn’t kept too much holidays since holiday season and have to say that new features are pretty great.
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Apple rumored of buying social navigation service company Waze for $750 million!
update: New reports are now telling that Apple has no interest of buying Waze anytime soon.
First rumors popped up on Wednesday, saying that Apple is interested of buying social navigation service Waze. New reports now suggests that Apple is willing to buy Waze for $750 million, and that negotations are even further than first believed. Waze is open minded for the idea of being purchased by Apple, but the price of $750 million is too high for Apple. Apple is said to be offering $400 million plus additional $100 million in incentives.
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Hackulous, the pirated iOS app community, closes it’s service!
Hackulous, service, which provides free apps for download for jailbraked iOS devices, has been shut down. In statement on the Hackulous site, team tells that they are sad to announce that they are closing the service. The Hackulous repository used for Jailbreak app Cydia has also gone offline, taking Installous and all the apps with it. There’s still plenty of users in that service, while the site told why they closed it’s service, it’s wont make much sense. Torrentfreak points out that lack of iPhone 5 jailbreak and long wait times for updated jailbreaks might be the biggest reasons for closing the service. Check out the statement after the break.
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Jolla’s Sailfish OS supports Android Apps but not Google Play!
Jolla’s Sailfish OS supports Android apps, but won’t allow you to download them from Google Play, according to report from 3T.
- We are currently figuring out options to share applications, and we will also discuss with current service providers, Marc Dillon CEO of Jolla told in interview with 3T.
At least first there’s not going to be Google Play included, but there’s also many other app providing services, which shares Android apps, including Opera Mobile Store, Amazon AppStore, Handango and GetJar. It’s still unclear, which app sharing providers Jolla will use or even which ones they are now in discussions.
It’s very important for Jolla to make a deal with Android App providers as there’s now more than 700,000 Android apps.
Android is open source, unlike Apple, which keeps strict control on what apps are accepted in App Store. This fact also makes Android vulnerable for malicious apps.
Jolla is also launching it’s first smartphone in next year.
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Google Now wins Popular Science’s Innovation of the Year Award!
Google Now has won Popular Science’s Innovation of the Year Award, putting it to alongside with past winners like Toyota Prius and Mars Curiosity Rover. The main reason for the win is “the first virtual assistant that truly anticipates your needs.” The service has grown from it’s launch adding new features like personalized recommendations, public safety alerts and “pedometer”. These are early steps for the context- and location based aware app. Head on the source link for additional information.
Source: Popular Science
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Gaming service OpenFeint is closing it’s doors on December 14th!
Gaming Service OpenFeint is closing it’s doors on December 14th. App Store-connected social hub is changing it’s service to Gree. Gree is also the owner of OpenFeint service as company purchased it back in April 2011. Now OpenFeint is trying to convince developers to bring their game titles to it’s main gaming service. Gree is hoping that they can transfer willing developers across their platform in a week. All OpenFeint network calls will be nonfunctional after December 14th, and all data saved to OpenFeint’s servers will be lost, including all unsecured player data. You can read more info on OpenFeint’s site from the source link below.
Source: OpenFeint
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WordPress starts taking payments in Bitcoin!
WordPress.com, free web hosting service run by Automattic, starts accepting payments in Bitcoins. Bitcoins are unregulated digital currency built on public-key cryptography. WordPress.com says in it’s blog that Bitcoin payments are handled by BitPay.com, and that theres no need to wait the confirmation because the transaction risk is very low. One thing need to remember,
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Nokia launching Here Maps app on iPhone and Android SDK!
Nokia (NOK) announced new mapping platform, Here, and company will be extend the service beyond Windows Phone platform. New Maps app Here will be available for iPhone and Android, and web based version for Mozilla’s Firefox OS sometime next year. The new Here app will offer turn-by-turn directions, public transportation information, and the app will be available for iPhone as soon as Apple approves the app. Company will also offer SDK for Android developers, allowing them to integrate the service into their apps.
New Here app platform combines both cloud and local-based date and rendering. Nokia also says that the Windows Phone version of the app will use up to 2.2GB of storage. It’s still unclear that does iPhone and Android apps use as much.
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Dropbox for iOS updated, added iPhone 5 support!
Dropbox for iOS got updated and it brings support for iPhone 5, and removes photo resolution cap. These new improvements means that there’s no black borders on your iPhone 5 screen, and photos you take will not be shrunken to iPhone 4S size, even if you took your photo with 12MP camera. iPad, iPhone and iPod now shows what ever they can handle. As there is something good for Dropbox users there must be something not so good. Photos are still compressed upon downloading and downloading takes more time now even with compressed photo. For some people new updated Dropbox is great news(iPhone 5 users), but yet if you’re hurry and need those photos not compressed, you might not be so pleased.
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