Wednesday 08 September 2010
People and Groups Need Private and Secure Sharing, Storage and Backup of Files With icloud You Upload, Access and Share Your Music, Videos and Photos with People You Trust LINKOPING, Sweden, July 2, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — icloud the online computer that gives you the freedom of your friends, files and digital life on any computer just announced improved file sharing capabilities, speed and worldwide reach for its online desktop community. Everyone can now get an always ON cloud computer for sharing their digital life. It acts as your digital persona.
Whether you are at the office, home, or at your friends place, all your files and folders are accessible and shareable at your fingertips. Mount your icloud Cloud Drive as a local hard drive and drag and drop files or folders directly to the cloud, they are then ready to be shared and used. Today icloud is available in 21 languages; Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Vietnamese.
With icloud, your computer is always ON, available in the cloud to serve you, your friend’s and family’s need of access to your information. Its easy cloud computing for the masses. About icloud Founded in 2001 by Daniel Arthursson, Xcerion provides icloud.com, the worlds leading “Cloud OS” based on 22 pending patents and 8 years of development. icloud is a 2008 Red Herring Global 100 winner. icloud is secure, social and always accessible from any computer.
Opera Unite takes cloud computing and turns it into crowd computing. That is, it removes the need for a Web server and allows people to share files and interact directly. “PCs decentralized computing away from large mainframes,” Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner said in a statement. “Opera Unite now decentralizes and democratizes the cloud.” Opera Unite allows users to share files by generating a direct URL to the hosting computer. It lets users host entire Web sites, music playlists, and photos. It also supports a chat service and a note-exchange system.
“This technology is a radical first step towards addressing what I call ‘the Internet’s unfulfilled promise,’ which is about our ability to connect with each other and participate meaningfully online — on our own terms, and without losing control of our data,” said Lawrence Eng, a product analyst with Opera Software, in a blog post. Opera Unite could change that dynamic, though it will be a significant challenge to steal market share from Apple, Google, Microsoft, or Mozilla without the backing of a powerful distribution partner or a community of committed open source advocates.
There are also reasons not to serve files from one’s home computer that are unrelated to security, such as limited upstream bandwidth and resource usage. At the same time, Opera Unite deserves consideration for challenging the cloud computing orthodoxy. It’s interesting technology, to say the least.
