Apple launched its iCloud.com site today – for those lucky folks who have a developer account. But even if you aren’t an app developer, you can get a sneak peek of some of the features, courtesy of the 9to5Mac blog.
That blog and others have screen shots of Mail, Calendar, Contacts and iWork. For those who have forgotten, iCloud, which Apple announced earlier this summer, will let you store music, documents, calendars and so forth in the “cloud,” so it’s accessible over the Internet and on all your little iOS devices. Today’s beta gives us some more ideas about what exactly that will look like.
And there’s more news on Apple’s pricing strategy for iCloud as well. Apple had previously announced that everyone would get 5 gigabytes for free. Now we see that you can upgrade to 10GB for $20 a year, 20GB for $40 and 50GB for $100.
Twitter’s New Value: $8.4 Billion: Twitter says it’s gotten a new round of funding from Digital Sky Technologies, that Russian venture firm that is involved in what seems like every hot social-networking company around.
Amir Efrati and Spencer Ante write that Twitter raised $800 million in an investment round that valued the micro-blogging service at $8.4 billion after the deal, according to a person familiar with the matter. The money will be used partly to buy out existing shareholders, the person says.
Airbnb Offers $50,000 Guarantee Amid Safety Concerns: The past week has not been kind to Airbnb, a hot start-up that lets people rent out their homes to vacationers. Several users have been recounting horror stories of users who ransacked their homes, stole their belongings and left drug paraphernalia behind. To make matters worse, the users said Airbnb hadn’t done much to help them. Now, Airbnb is offering a $50,000 guarantee to all its users in an effort to assuage their fears.
Sun Website Users’ Details Hacked: News International, which is embroiled in a scandal involving phone hacking by reporters at the now-defunct News of the World, is reportedly warning users that some information, such as email and phone numbers, was breached in an attack on its Sun website in July. (News International is owned by News Corp., which also owns the Wall Street Journal and thus this blog.)
Making Maps Into Art: A new site called Rorschmap turns satellite views of Google maps into kaleidoscope-like images. Pretty!
That blog and others have screen shots of Mail, Calendar, Contacts and iWork. For those who have forgotten, iCloud, which Apple announced earlier this summer, will let you store music, documents, calendars and so forth in the “cloud,” so it’s accessible over the Internet and on all your little iOS devices. Today’s beta gives us some more ideas about what exactly that will look like.
And there’s more news on Apple’s pricing strategy for iCloud as well. Apple had previously announced that everyone would get 5 gigabytes for free. Now we see that you can upgrade to 10GB for $20 a year, 20GB for $40 and 50GB for $100.
Twitter’s New Value: $8.4 Billion: Twitter says it’s gotten a new round of funding from Digital Sky Technologies, that Russian venture firm that is involved in what seems like every hot social-networking company around.
Amir Efrati and Spencer Ante write that Twitter raised $800 million in an investment round that valued the micro-blogging service at $8.4 billion after the deal, according to a person familiar with the matter. The money will be used partly to buy out existing shareholders, the person says.
Sun Website Users’ Details Hacked: News International, which is embroiled in a scandal involving phone hacking by reporters at the now-defunct News of the World, is reportedly warning users that some information, such as email and phone numbers, was breached in an attack on its Sun website in July. (News International is owned by News Corp., which also owns the Wall Street Journal and thus this blog.)
Making Maps Into Art: A new site called Rorschmap turns satellite views of Google maps into kaleidoscope-like images. Pretty!
