Strike while the iron is hot Ubuntu one, Canonical’s long running cloud storage program just got a little better today. Users are now able to invite friends and family to the program and be rewarded. Unlike most referral based rewards, this one gives twice! It works quite simply. If you invite a friend to Ubuntu [...]
OnLive Shutting Down?
Many sites are reporting the immediate shutdown of streaming game pioneer OnLive, claiming the company has fired all of its employees and intends to file for bankruptcy. Rumor Has It It looks like the start of this rumor is a Tweet from Brian Fargo, which claimed he had received the following email from an OnLive employee: [...]
Netflix Unleashes Source for Chaos Monkey
Today, via a posting on their Tech Blog, Netflix announced the long awaited release of their failure inducing “Chaos Monkey” tool: Chaos Monkey is a service which runs in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) that seeks out Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) and terminates instances (virtual machines) per group. The software design is flexible enough to [...]
Google Talk Suffers Majority Outage
Google Talk is down. In the early hours of the AM today, users of the Google Talk service began tweeting about the service being down. Reports seemed to have started in India and other parts of the east today, and are quickly spreading to the west. According to Google service page for Talk: 6:50AM * [...]
Google Drive Exceeds 5 Million Downloads In Less Than 1 Hour.
Google Drive, the over-speculated, hype-driven, cloud storage platform that we always knew was coming, is here. Announced only a few thousand heart-beats ago, Google Drive is experiencing incredible demand in the Google Play store. With a broad, round number of 5 million (5,000,000) downloads recorded and displayed prominently, it may only be another hour or [...]