Tag Archive - Cloud Computing

Amazon First in Music Locker Race

March 31, 2011 in In The News, Tech Life with 0 Comments

Despite not have all of the details worked out with the music industry on licences, Amazon has beat both Google and Apple to the race to be the first major player to create a place where you can store and play your music collection online.

Since shutting down Lala about a year ago, Apple has been quite on this front and consumers have been left without a solution. There have been a few services available including, Libox, but none with the reputation and backing of the “Big 3″.  Google is rumored to be close to a launch of Google Music and Apple might be in the process of enhancing its MobleMe service to include a music locker later in the fall with the new release of iOS. But Amazon has beat them both to the punch and has launched the Amazon Cloud Drive.

CNET has posted a pretty complete review of the new service. Bottom line – when it come to online music storage and playback, Amazon Cloud Drive is now the service to beat. Price is very reasonable (starting with 5 GB free) and easy integration with Amazon MP3 music store.

Intro video from Amazon explains the idea behind the service. Looks like 2011 will be a competitive year in this space which is a good thing for all of us. More than ever there will be no reason not to have your digital music collection backed up!

 

The Future of Printing

April 16, 2010 in Future Tech with 0 Comments

via mashable.com

I love this concept! One of the biggest headaches in an IT persons life is having to update or install device drivers to be able to print correctly. While Apple computers are generally easier and simpler than PC’s in this area, they are not 100% support-free.

I believe we will continue to see the Internet (a.k.a. “The Cloud”) continue to take more and more of the role of the traditional local area network both at home and in the work place. I think that is a great thing!  I’m looking forward to the day when we can look back and say, “Remember when we used to have to worry about printer drivers?” and the new young IT folk respond “printer driver? What’s that?”

See the post from Mashable about this new concept from Google.