Everyone wants a bite out of the old apple. We’ve been waiting for the big move from the internet’s largest online merchant — and you know, they almost always do it right. We’re going to be keeping our eye on this one…
* Amazon’s Cloud-y dreams
* Amazon Cloud Drive
* Amazon (AMZN) Ambushes its Competitors with an Assault in the Cloud
* Amazon’s ‘Cloud Drive’ Faces Backlash From Music Industry
* Amazon Cloud Drive: 3 things to consider before you commit
* How to Get Started with Cloud Drive and Cloud Player
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Amazon’s Cloud-y dreams
Seattle-based Amazon.com brought the “cloud” or cloud-based computing a step closer to the average consumer last week with the debut of the Cloud Drive and the Cloud Player.
In simple terms, Amazon lets you upload your digital music library to Amazon’s media servers, or the Cloud Drive. The Cloud Player lets you play your music on any Internet-connected device wherever you happen to be: a computer, smartphone, or tablet using WiFi or a cell data plan.
Full story : crosscut.com
Amazon Cloud Drive
Back in 2006, everyone in the tech media was talking about the Gdrive. This was supposed to be an online storage service from Google, but it never really materialized (except as a Google Docs feature). Meanwhile, Microsoft has offered SkyDrive since 2007, and now Amazon has come out with its own Web storage, Cloud Drive.
Mostly intended as an ancillary service to Amazon’s new Cloud Player, Cloud Drive gives you 5GB online storage free (compared with Microsoft SkyDrive’s 25GB free and Google Doc’s 1GB). Full story : www.pcmag.com
Amazon (AMZN) Ambushes its Competitors with an Assault in the Cloud
As Google, Microsoft, and Apple fight for supremacy in cloud-based computing, silent threat Amazon, long regarded as an online retailer and not a serious competitor in personal computing, has flanked its rivals with a full assault in the cloud.
The online retail giant has the strongest web-based infrastructure to build its cloud-based services upon, and its servers have been proven, through the deflection of multiple hacker attacks, as the most resilient and ‘unhackable’ family of sites on the web. Full story : www.investorguide.com
Amazon’s ‘Cloud Drive’ Faces Backlash From Music Industry
Amazon is already facing some backlash from the music industry over the company’s ‘Cloud Drive’ service, which could ignite a legal battle. Liz Young, a Spokesperson for the company stated that Sony Music was one company upset by Amazon’s decision to launch the service without new licenses for music streaming. Full story : www.americanbankingnews.com
Amazon Cloud Drive: 3 things to consider before you commit
Amazon’s new Cloud Drive music-streaming service has the potential to do big things for the Android platform. It has plenty to offer from a user perspective, too: Cloud Drive gives you 5GB of storage space for free, with the option to get more for a matter of dollars.
Good news all around, right? Well…sort of. Amazon Cloud Drive does open new doors for us as Android users. But before you fully commit to the service and delete your music from your phone’s SD card, there are a few important points to consider. Full story : blogs.computerworld.com
How to Get Started with Cloud Drive and Cloud Player
Step 1. Buy music and save it to Cloud Drive … Purchase a song or album from the Amazon MP3 Store and click the Save to your Amazon Cloud Drive button when your purchase is complete. Your purchase will be stored for free and will not count against your storage quota.
Step 2. Play your music (Duh) Full story : www.amazon.com
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