Tag: cloud
Eenie, meenie, miney, mo.
by schwim on Oct.13, 2009, under Humorous, Software
I tend to get giddy when stories ridiculing various targets of opportunity overlap. In a story that might leave me smiling for weeks, Techdirt has regaled us with the potential fantasticalness of both “The Cloud” and Microsoft.
Microsoft bought out Danger, the maker of the Sidekick phone. One of the phone’s main selling features was that your data was stored on remote servers. I know, how fucking handy is that, right?
What? I didn’t see you submit any data.
by schwim on Apr.06, 2009, under Miscellaneous
Former brains behind the now dead and buried Netscape browser have unveiled a cloud storage solution for those of you that would like to store all of your sensitive, important and valuable information with faceless people around the intardnet that promise not to lose, harm or misuse your data.
It stands to reason that a group of people that did so great in the browser wars would now up the ante by offering to store your data that could potentially ruin your life were it to be, lost, placed in the wrong hands or compromised.
I don’t have a problem with the fact that Netscape developers are getting into the cloud storage business. I think for that to happen, I would have to find cloud storage a viable technology. I find the whole premise of remote storage to be utterly laughable, so at most, the Netscape angle is just a higher level of laughable.
