The cloud outage season that began with the PlayStation Network outage seems to be having an extended run as web services just can’t stop tumbling. Microsoft was one of the companies that encountered problems with their web services last week. Redmond’s trouble revolved around its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). While all issues were resolved quickly, the BPOS team did not forget to apologize for BPOS’s relative lack of productivity during the week. Hit the jump for more.
Microsoft recently updated its Office Web Apps online productivity suite to add a few useful features. The service update, which was announced by the Office Web Apps team on its official blog on Wednesday, only concerns the Excel and PowerPoint Web Apps. Hit the jump to find out what these enhancements are.
Much has already been made about Google's business and subscription plans for its Chromebook, and so far the details have raised more questions than answers. How long are the contracts good for, and are there are any other requirements or strings attached? What's included, and what's not included? A handful of Google executives took the time to answer these questions and clarify how its Chromebook subscription model works.
Angry Birds is coming to a web browser near you.
Just like that, the first day of Google's annual I/O conference is finished. This year's event has given us some big announcements, like Google's new music initiative, and a lot of new insight into where Google wants to take it's various platforms. For a complete look at all the most interesting news and info to come out of Google I/O 2011, hit the jump.
Word on the web is that Google later today is going to launch a music service, but not as originally intended. After being unable to hammer out agreements with record labels, Google is said to be following in Amazon's footsteps with a digital music locker service without any licensing deals in place. Music Beta by Google, as the search giant plans to call it, will let users upload their tracks to a storage locker in the cloud where they can be streamed and downloaded to any Internet connected devices.
Between the PlayStation Network 
Now that app stores have almost become de rigueur, it isn’t hugely surprising that even the next iteration of Windows is widely anticipated to have one. It also makes perfect sense considering the fact that Windows 8 is also being optimized to run on media tablets (even including those powered by ARM chips). While the alleged screenshots of Windows 8’s app store UI that were released a few weeks back eventually turned out to be fakes, some Russian enthusiasts now claim to have uncovered a couple of references to the store in a leaked Windows 8 build. Find out more after the jump.
Following the recent outage at its Web hosting business that brought down several websites, both big and small, Amazon today offered an apology to customers and a long winded technical explanation of what went wrong. Amazon also said it would be giving affected custoemrs a 10-day service credit equal to 100 percent of their usage of EBS Volumes, EC2 Instances, and RDS database instances. The credit will be automatically applied to their next AWS bill, Amazon said.
Google sure took its time, but an official Google Docs app is now available for Google's own Android platform. Users can now get quicker access to their cloud-based documents with the aid of this (mostly) native application. While the editing could be better, the Docs app has some interesting features around sharing and optical character recognition (OCR). 
-
Technology
Entertainment
-
Music
-
Creative
Sport & Auto
- About Future
- Jobs
- News
- Advertising
- Digital Future
- Privacy Policy
- Cookies Policy
- Terms & Conditions
- Shop
- Investor Relations
- Contact Future
© Future US, Inc. 4000 Shoreline Court, Suite 400, South San Francisco, California, 94080. All Rights Reserved.