By switching to mobile Cloud computing, companies do not need a large configuration on their mobile devices since all of their data will be saved in the Clouds (or the Internet, which is where the Cloud stores all its information). All of this has evolved due to companies putting most of their computing assets into Cloud.

How Did It Start?

With the design of mobile devices, many companies were able to have their workers work from home. The inventions of laptops and the Iphone has caused many companies to update their work style, and has raised the spending in network sharing ability to make sure everyone in the company is up-to-date with the latest mobile sharing devices.

The Unknown 

As with any other breakthrough in technology, there are always going to be some unanswered questions and challenges in putting all efforts into the latest trend. Many companies have to worry about security issues and data being leaked when uploaded to the Cloud (especially with the usage of mobile devices). Even with all of these big “uh-ohs” there are some added pros in taking that first leap.

By investing in Cloud technology, the operating IT systems can be ran at a more competitive price than previously used. The upgrades that are generally needed to keep a business running can be done in an easier method than before, and also offers improved abilities for solutions and companies to choose their vendors. By upgrading to Cloud, companies are able to expand their frameworks and break the language barrier for branching out their companies.

New Generations                                                

The companies who are more into creativity are able to expand their abilities with Cloud mobile. This is a great addition because the products that may have been hard to reach due to expenses are now obtainable. The smarter companies will notice the increased storage space and the ability to access more customers (through YouTube and high speed Internet) and can turn their company around.

Self-Servicing Companies

The involvement of the Cloud will involve less interfacing from the IT departments. The businesses will be able to follow through with Cloud solutions that provide self taught walk-through. The main goal with the Cloud will be to allow companies to function on their own, without the thought of the entire IT department breathing down their backs to make sure everything is in working order.

Companies in the future will greatly benefit from the evolution of the Cloud Mobile. Having the ability to travel more for business and still be able to have the entire office at ones fingertips is all possible thanks to Cloud Mobile. Workers can still work on personal leaves (if they choose to do so), and won’t have to worry about being behind on work.

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The hacktavist group Anonymous is said to be currently attacking Facebook. This is part of the response to the shuttering of Megaupload, the webs most popular file locker, on January 17 2012. Anonymous has been on a Denial of Service spree these last few days, causing service outages for a number of worldwide government agencies, companies and organizations that were implicated or condoned the Megaupload raids. The validity of the reports are questionable though.

So far the attack (if its actually happening) has yielded few results, Facebook was reported to be running slowly by a few twitter users. Some of the Facebook applications and games were also either slow or inaccesible. The DDoS attempt will probably be unsuccessful on a site of this size, as Facebook has numerous counter-measure to this type of harassment.

Because of the amorphous structure of Anonymous, it’s not certain that the attack is actually taking place. Some members or subgroups may be acting alone or may not have been able to drum up enough support from other members. Some anonymous mouthpieces on Twitter are claiming Facebook is under attack while others (like the one pictures below) are denying it.

Facebook’s connection to the Megaupload raids is not immediately clear, and some question why it is a target. The motivation is mostly to spread awareness about the harm of censorship and the ACTA bills. The anons posit that the recent pro copyright holder legislation that has been put forward around the world is not being met with enough public backlash and that they need a “wakeup call”.

Update 9:15PM EST
It looks like it was not Anonymous that caused the outage after all. Trolled indeed.

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Alternative Sites

• Rapid Share – This is probably one of the oldest filelockers on the net.
  Uploading: there is unlimited file upload size for free accounts and it’s accesible for 30 days from the public URL.
  Downloading:There is a 45 second wait time to download files and only 1gb can be downloaded per 24 hours on free accounts.
• Wupload
  Uploading: 2GB maximum file size, 750GB storage space and file links stay active for 30 days.
  Downloading: 16 second wait time to download, cannot download files over 2GB.
• 2shared – This site is the fallback file source for Icefilms, it’s one of the best but it has its limitations
  Uploading: Unlimited file size, unlimited storage for an account
  Downloading:There is a daily quota (not explicitly specified) that will add a wait time but for the first few GB there is no wait time. Unlimited size but occasional file transfer interruptions because of increased traffic and activity.
• Uploaded – No longer available in the US
  Uploading: You can earn 30 Euro per 100 download of the file you upload. Free accounts can upload up to 1GB files with unlimited total storage.
  Downloading:Wait time varies but usually around 12-14 seconds, can’t download files larger than 1GB with a free/anonymous account.
• Hotfile
  Uploading: Maximum file size of 1GB with total storage space of 500GB. Files remain up until 90 days after the last time the file was downloaded.
  Downloading:Download speed is a bit slower than the above sites. Wait time to download files is 15 seconds and you can only download one file per 30 minutes.

If you have any other go to file locker sites, let us know in the comments and we’ll put it up!

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This afternoon FileSonic, one of the most popular internet file lockers, disabled it’s file sharing functionality. That is, you will no longer be able to access files uploaded by other users or upload new files to be publicly accessed. Individuals who have uploaded files to FileSonic can still access their own files but have to be logged into their FileSonic account to do so.

This is in response the recent shutdown of Megaupload, a competing file locker, by the FBI earlier this week. FileSonic shares many of the same characteristics of Megaupload; it had lots of copyrighted material, it only complied with the DCMA regulations on the surface, and links to files that they host frequently turn up on websites that act as linked directories of copyrighted files (ie Filestube).

Many internet users are now concerned that many other file sharing utilities may also have to take feature limiting defensive moves in order to be allowed to continue to operate. Drop Box, one of the most use full and widely used methods of sharing files, is often cited as another prime target. We don’t think that it is any danger as it’s business model is far different from most of the file lockers. First of all, if a file is downloaded too many times it is removed from of Drop Box where ass on the less scrupulous file lockers it’s encouraged. Secondly, Drop Box monetizes the file uploader, not the downloader reducing the incentive of sharing copyright materials.

That said, there are many other file lockers who do share the same business model as Megaupload and FileSonic who will certainly have to adapt in order to stay online.

Update
FileServe has followed FileSonic in closing it’s file links to the public. There will most certainly be more casualties in the file sharing ecosystem in the near future.

You can check out our list of alternatives to FileSonic and FileServe to help you find a new file sharing resource.
 
 

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4chan, the ‘homebase’ of anonymous is in frenzy over closure of one of “their sites” and are seeking revenge with LOIS, an open source DDoS ableing software. Some of the anons have posted a Javascript version of the tool to help the effort, it’s available on pastebin. The next plausible targets seems to be the FBI site or the RIAA website as many lasers are already “pointed” at them.

That said, even when the number of LOIC attackers is high, it still would not be enough to take down these types of high profile websites. Anynymous must have access to a bot net and/or is pooling resources with other groups to carry out and sustain such effective attacks.

Anonymous Takedown Catalogue

Updated as of 8:00PM EST January 22 2011
Most Site are now back up and running but, with fewer numbers, the attack continues on a few sites. The Brazilian arm of anonymous seems to still be hard at work. They are continuing the DDoS on a broad spectrum of websites, the hit list of 114 websites all with .br TDLs has been posted on pastebin. We’ve included some of the most notable downed sites on the list below.

• CBS Anonymous deleted the entire site directory taking it down for a few hours until it was restored from a backup.
• Universal Music BrazilDown under DDoS attack
• Visa Brazil Down under DDoS attack
• Anti-Piracy Belgium
• New Zealand Justice Department
• MGM Shop Down, under DDoS attack
• Warner Brothers Store Down, under DDoS attack
• Warner Music GroupDown, under DDoS attack
• BMI Down, under DDoS attack
• US Department of Justice
• Universal Music Down, still under DDoS attack
• Recording Industry of America
• MPAA
• FBI

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In response to the closure, Anonymous has launched a distributed denial service attack on several web properties owned by those complicit in the Megaupload bust. You can check out our list of alternatives to Megaupload to help you find a new file sharing resource.

Mega-Sites Gone for Good

Along with Megaupload, Megavideo.com, the company’s sister streaming flash video site has also been taken offline. It looks like the all of the sites in the Mega ‘network’ have been taken down as a result of the Federal investigation. This has come as a bit of a surprise to many:

• On the surface, the site seemed to have complied with DMCA regulations, and removed material when asked.
• The site did not directly promote piracy.
• The listed employees are nearly all non US citizens, so this required international cooperation.

The swift and relatively unannounced takedown has created a huge stir in the internet-technology sector and, more acutely, in the thriving tech startup industry. It sets an ambiguous precedent that services used to share files, where the possibility of abuse (ie sharing copyrighted material unbeknownst to the company’s administration) may be grounds for indictment. For instance Dropbox, the personal file sharing service, may have to become increase intervention and filtering to duck a similar raid in the future. The scare of this materializing was what lead to the internet wide protest against the SOPA bill yesterday.

Still it’s almost impossible to deny that Megavideo and Megaupload were rife with pirated material and that they at best took their time in complying the DMCA takedown requests. From the department of justice press release:

As alleged in the indictment, the conspirators failed to terminate accounts of users with known copyright infringement, selectively complied with their obligations to remove copyrighted materials from their servers and deliberately misrepresented to copyright holders that they had removed infringing content. For example, when notified by a rights holder that a file contained infringing content, the indictment alleges that the conspirators would disable only a single link to the file, deliberately and deceptively leaving the infringing content in place to make it seamlessly available to millions of users to access through any one of the many duplicate links available for that file.

This was often the case anecdotally, as Alex Muir put it:

Megaupload never complied with DMCA requests – I made several as part of some research and never received any response. The site charged for access to, and provided advertising around, pirated content. The site paid people (users/staff – it’s a fine line) to provide popular content.
It went to extraordinary lengths to hide the identity of its operators.

The entire 72 page long edictment is available from here.

Bring on the Fakes

There are rumours flying around twitter about new iterations of Megaupload and Megavideo. Alas, these are so far all fakes. The most popular New Megaupload is http://megavideo.bz/. The site allegedly hosts a a recent backup of the downed Megaupload but with a non functioning sketchy layout, consistant server outages. The UUID UA-6383685-1 points to number of other megaupload ripoff sites that exist only to display advertising when someone miss types the url. Here is a screenshot of the site:

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Enter RePress project

If you have a WordPress site that is autonomously hosted (ie it cannot be hosted on wordpress.com) then all you have to do is download the repress plugin found here, input some information about your server, input the site you want to act as a proxy for and away it goes. The site will now be available by default at http://yourblog/repost/thepiratebay.org but it can be configured to be available from a directory/URL of your choosing.

Don’t worry about going over your allotted bandwidth, the proxy will simply redirect traffic to the blocked sites with almost no expense to your host’s resources. For now the plugin is only available through the all4xs.net website but it should be available from the wordpress plugin database in the near future.

Will it Work?

The plugin was built mostly in response to the upcoming censoring of The Pirate Bay in the Netherlands. Technically it will work fine in getting around restrictions imposed by interventionist governments but they could always just block the site hosting the proxy or, in more extreme cases, persecute poeple for hosting the proxy in the first place. The more websites that do this the better as government groups don’t have the resources to scour the internet for all proxies, but just be careful if you’re in an area plagued with extremism that your site cannot be easily traced back to you.

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Users only have to visit the Clik website which displays a QR code on the screen that smart phone users can pair with their mobile devices. The device then becomes a “super remote control” for the screen able to stream from youtube, local video files, music, play games ect. You can have more then one user controlling the screen through Clik as long as they are on the same wi-fi connection. This allows for a great party feel to the application which will be released soon for Android and iPhone devices.

The application will be officially released on the app store and market place in late January 2012. One of the most exciting things about the app is that a javascript API will be released within the next couple of months allowing developers to easily create applications for the technology.

There is substantial fanfare for this application. It’s much more users friendly and provides much more functionality then a lot of traditional media servers or set top devices. The javascript API also makes it easy for both developers and web designers to create phenominal applications quickly, as you just need to know HTML/CSS and javascript. Fred Wilson, the rockstar Venture capitalist, called it “a game changer”.

The Kik development team is made up primarily of UW graduates (or CS/ENG drop-outs with exceptional practical coding skills and eye for opportunity) so they wanted to get back to their roots for the product launch. They launch party was at the campus bar The Bomber where Kik CEO Ted Livingston made a quick intro speech and jaw dropping product demo.

The Clik application from Kik will be available soon in the apple app store and in the Android Marketplace. We’ll post links as soon as their out. In the mean time, here’s a screen shot of the Clik Airtube app.

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Hey a new third party service came out today to meet new Kik users. The web application allows you to see new Kik usernames so that you can add and talk to people.

Try it out at:
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