SurDoc is doing what Adobe has sort of done with its PDF file format, that is making as easy as possible to share formatted documents across computers and mobile devices without losing the formatting. The difference it offers is that you don’t need to mess with any file formating or PDF reader to access the documents — or with all of the vulnerabilities of PDFs. You can just upload text, spreadsheet and presentation files (so Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.) to its online service, and share them from there. The service currently offers 10 GB of storage as part of
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Dispatch is setting out to become a sort of Finder (or Windows Explorer) for the cloud. You enter your credentials for the various services you use online — Dropbox, Facebook, Gmail, Google Docs and so on — and it lets you browse through the files stored on each service from a single dashboard. You can view these files in a preview window, download them, or move them around between services by dragging and dropping files from one service’s folder into another.
Dispatch.io was created at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon 2011. It was created by a team of three, including 17
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Started by David Greschler (co-founder of Softricity App-V, and until recently, director of virtualization and cloud strategy at Microsoft) and Doug Brown (founder of popular virtualization site DABCC) PaperShare, a social content and information network for technology professionals. Information is now Social
The idea behind PaperShare is to promote the sharing of enterprise-focused content, including technical white papers, videos, case studies and whatnot. More than merely a marketing channel, PaperShare wants to be a place where industry professionals can connect through information. It's a cloud service that allows people to find high-quality information about virtualization and cloud computing based on
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the folks at Glowhost put together a nice infographic that summarizes some of our key points and provides a nice checklist for what SMB should demand from their cloud providers.
Lemon (Android, iOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone coming soon)is a free cloud-based receipt organizer and spending tracker app. The service lets users store and organize email and paper receipts in the cloud to help them keep track of purchases, eliminate clutter and start spending smarter.
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Cardcloud founded by Renato Valdés Olmos and Paul Geurts, formerly known as My Name Is E allows users to create and exchange an unlimited amount of online business cards. Interestingly, recipients do not need to have any apps installed on their phones, as Cardcloud users can send their contact details and whatnot directly to an email address and Cardcloud will deliver a beautifully formatted card directly to the recipient's inbox. Needless to say, that makes Cardcloud a great alternative for exchanging traditional business cards. Users can rapidly share (“beam”) their Cardcloud cards with people who do have the app
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Windows Division prexy Steven Sinofsky treated Build 2011 attendees to a walkthrough of the various tweaks, subtle or otherwise, Microsoft's made to Windows 8. Staying true to its roots, the new OS implements the familiar keyboard commands users have become accustomed to over the years, like CMD and Ctrl+F. And as for its update to Internet Explorer, MS has imbued its tenth iteration with the ability to switch between the much-hyped Metro-style UI and plain old desktop view.
- All Windows 7 applications will run natively on Windows 8
- Security update notifications have been minimized to the lower right of
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Breezy (formerly BreezyPrint, iOS, Android, Blackberry) is a cloud-based mobile printing solution that makes it easy to print anything from any device to any printer. Breezy’s architecture supports hundreds of file types and all printers, regardless of whether the printers are wifi or Bluetooth-capable. The free Breezy Connector software acts as a bridge between users’ printer and the company’s servers, which keep an up-to-date list of printers available to each user; documents are then sent securely from a user’s mobile device, through the server and to the printer selected by the user.
- Give users on-the-go printing wherever they are.
- Breezy
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This video will provide a deeper look at how Microsoft uses secure, reliable, scalable and efficient best practices to deliver over 200 cloud services to more than a billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 70 countries.It provides an understanding at how we view our end-to-end cloud strategy from an infrastructure perspective.