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How To Claw Back Privacy Under Google's New Policy

The step-by-step guide to using Google's best offerings, but spreading your online eggs into more than just one big basket out in Mountain View, California.READ»

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Box.net CEO Aaron Levie On His Love-Hate Affair With Microsoft

Is there anything you like about Microsoft? "That's a completely unrealistic question!" jokes Aaron Levie, founder of Box.net. The fast-growing, enterprise cloud startup just scored another $81 million in venture funding...READ»

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What Will You Do When They Come For You?

The nine most dreaded words in American business: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are eyeing your market. Which industries--and companies--are the Fab Four most interested in disrupting?READ»

Amazon's Kindle Fire Curates The Cloud

Cloud storage alone is not enough to solve the blur of data that is swamping our devices and our digital lives. What consumers want is a Curated Cloud, and that's what the Kindle Fire delivers. READ»

Amazon's Kindle Fire Is Built To Blaze Through Amazon Purchases

Amazon's Kindle Fire has its hardware and software shaved down to a bare minimum and woven together in a delicate mesh. But even Fire's weakness strengthens Amazon. READ»

Low-Hassle Ways To Cloud-ify Your Work

Having everything on the web is handy, minus, of course, when it goes down, or you forget to sync something. Here are the best no-worry means of keeping your important documents accessible from any computer.READ»

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Vudu's iPad App, Groupon Revises S-1, Walmart Shuts MP3 Store, Bing's Search Market Share, Anonymous Plots Against Facebook

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ»

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FBI's First iPhone App, Apple Vs. Fakery, Rdio Beats Spotify To iPad, Intel Spends $30M On Cloud, U.S. ISP's Hijacking Search

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ»

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HP Talks App Strategy, Box.net Acquisition, And Zigging When Apple Zags

HP believes WebOS is a more open environment; that it will be less fragmented than Android; that it's an easier and more scalable platform to develop on; and, most significantly, HP promises they won't start co-opting apps, like some competitors out there...READ»

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Head In The Clouds? Microsoft Untethers Office 365

Microsoft's latest and greatest upgrade to its business productivity code--with a whole new cloud-based system--launches today. Will the cloud help or hurt Office's future?READ»

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The Cloud Wars: With Google Docs, Box.net Takes On Microsoft

With the market for cloud-based enterprise services expected to grow to $35.6 billion by 2015, the battle for control of the clouds is heating up, with tech giants such as EMC, Apple, Cisco, IBM, and Microsoft elbowing for market share. But don't forget about scrappy underdog Box.net.READ»

The Race For The Most Efficient Server Is Turning Tech Companies Into Power Companies

Uploading your music to the cloud isn't as simple as you might think. As more data is stored online, the cloud takes more and more energy to maintain, forcing companies to get into the business of getting power as cheaply as possible.READ»

Amazon CEO Bezos's Tough Talk On Cloud Security: "Choose Harder Passwords!"

Tech evangelists around the globe can't stop singing the praises of the cloud. But keeping all our data online certainly has its drawbacks: privacy concerns, data breaches, server crashes. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has one answer: Pick harder passwords, stupid. READ»

CloudMagic Brings Offline Search To Gmail, Docs, Contacts

Welcome to a world where you no longer need an Internet connection to check email. But is this truly a miracle?READ»

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iFive: Nokia Slashes Workforce, Amazon Cloud Data Loss, YouTube Movies Delayed, iTunes Cloud To Cost, Mobile Ads Work

A lot has been happening in the world already today--find out exactly what in our early news roundup:READ»

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iFive: Amazon Cloud Woes, Samsung Sues Apple, Facebook's "Like" Birthday, Apple Cloud Music Ready, Microsoft Patents Buying Apps

It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday (sorry). And, better yet, get up to speed with the morning's news.READ»

Heavy Metal Dust Could End Our Space Junk Odyssey

We have a space junk problem. Fragments from very small (a millimeter) to much bigger (several meters) are whirling around overhead at fantastic speeds, threatening satellites and astronauts. Adding more could actually help.READ»

How Mint Exec's New Company Will Teach All Employees To Teach Others

Training has traditionally been part of centralized departments—and the bane of everyone else. MindFlash is about to change that.READ»

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iFive: Twitter's Growth, YouTube Gets "Channels," iPad Delays RIM PlayBook, Apple Orders Huge Data Store, Facebook Phone Arrives

Welcome to Thursday. Or, what we like to call: "There's a lot of news, so you better read i5 to catch up fast," day. READ»