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Amazon Cloud Drive finally lands in Canada, offering 5GB of storage for free or 20GB for $10 a year

May 21, 2013
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Amazon Cloud Drive finally lands in Canada, offering 5GB of storage for free or 20GB for $10 a year

Amazon.ca has announced the launch of its Cloud Drive service in Canada, letting local Web users upload and store their digital files on Amazon’s giant hard-drive in the sky, and access them via Cloud Drive for Windows and Mac, as well as other Web browsers and native mobile apps. Rivaling popular cloud-based storage alternatives such…

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Facebook debuts Share Dialog for iOS out of beta, lets developers add sharing to apps with one line of code

May 20, 2013
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Facebook debuts Share Dialog for iOS out of beta, lets developers add sharing to apps with one line of code

Facebook on Monday announced the release of its native Share Dialog, which lets iOS app developers add Facebook sharing capabilities with just one line of code. The feature is now available in the Facebook SDK for iOS, which you can download now from here. While app developers will certainly appreciate that adding the functionality only…

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Minibox raises $800,000 to take on Dropbox with its lightning-fast file transfer and storage service

May 20, 2013
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Minibox raises $800,000 to take on Dropbox with its lightning-fast file transfer and storage service

The cloud storage space has taken off in recent years thanks to a plethora of startups like Dropbox and Box, not to mention services from heavyweights like Microsoft, Google and others. Yet, despite many big names and relative market consolidation, San Francisco-based Minibox is a new entrant that’s raised $800,000 to take on the establishment with…

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South Africa: Mandela name pulled into politics

May 20, 2013
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South Africa: Mandela name pulled into politics

Buy AP Photo Reprints JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela, old and frail, lives in seclusion in his Johannesburg home. Beyond the high walls of the house, the fighting over his image and what he stood for has already begun.The sense of possibility that Mandela embodied is fading as a gulf between rich and poor widens.…

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Facebook’s stock has lost 31% of its value since it went public one year ago

May 17, 2013
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Facebook’s stock has lost 31% of its value since it went public one year ago

On May 18th, 2012, Facebook went public at a per-share price of $38. The company experienced a brief gain, spiking into the 40s, but ended its first day of trading just a few cents above the set $38 price. The following days saw the stock decline, under its listing price. The stock would fall as…

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Weinstein showcases Grace Kelly, Mandela flicks

May 17, 2013
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Weinstein showcases Grace Kelly, Mandela flicks

Jury member Nicole Kidman poses for photographers during a photo call for the jury at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)Jury member Nicole Kidman poses for photographers during a photo call for the jury at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday,…

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Nigeria announces national ID cards with electronic payment capability built in

May 17, 2013
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Nigeria announces national ID cards with electronic payment capability built in

Last week at the World Economic Forum on Africa held in Cape Town, South Africa the Nigerian National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and MasterCard announced their collaboration with plans to roll-out an initial 13 million MasterCard-branded National Identity Smart Cards with electronic payment capability. The 13 million cards will form part of a pilot program…

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Inside Google’s new location APIs for Android

May 16, 2013
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Inside Google’s new location APIs for Android

Setting: Large ballroom in Moscone. Large enough that two sets of projected screens are on, one up front, and one pair amidset. Crowded, one or two open seats per long row. Two bright-shirted Google employees in blue. We start on time. Today during the I/O developer conference, Googlers Waleed Kadous and Jaikumar Ganesh walked developers through…

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Bundestrainer Löw: Mit vier Neulingen in die USA

May 16, 2013
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Bundestrainer Löw: Mit vier Neulingen in die USA

Video11:41 UhrEuropa LeagueChelsea gewinnt gegen Lissabon in letzter Minute Der FC Chelsea hat 361 Tage nach seinem Champions-League-Triumph von München auch die Europa League gewonnen. Die Londoner setzten sich dank eines Last-Minute-Tores von Branislav Ivanovic mit 2:1 gegen Benfica Lissabon durch.»

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