A Canadian outfit called Peerio has put its eponymous secure messaging and cloud storage app into public beta, promising a much more usable alternative to PGP email and file encryption. Peerio… Read more »
The “Indienet”, which will apparently be best experienced on a new device called the Indie Phone, is on track to comfortably exceed its crowdfunding goals. But, beyond more private interactions, what… Read more »
The firm says the credentials were stolen from other services and just happen to work — sometimes — on the victims’ Dropbox accounts as well. Read more »
The search firm’s new Yandex.Master platform aggregates offers from smaller service providers, be they cleaning firms or other Taskrabbit-ish platforms like YouDo. Read more »
The outfit’s DocsPad product gives developers a way to insert Google Docs-style functionality into their apps, and the exit helps Bangalore raise its profile as a startup hub of note. Read more »
The former NSA sysadmin said in a Guardian interview that cloud providers can earn users’ trust by building their services around encryption and being clear about “where they draw the lines.” Read more »
Deutsche Telekom has its own German cloud storage service, TelekomCloud, so it’s no surprise to see its big Dropbox partnership exclude the carrier’s home turf. Read more »
Yandex.Disk can now import photos from and share photos to Facebook and other social networks — Yandex hopes the latter feature will help it strike deals with printing and stock photo… Read more »
Canonical wants to make Ubuntu a contender in the mobile space, and that means setting up an ecosystem. The entity at the center of that ecosystem wouldn’t necessarily be Canonical itself. Read more »
Dropbox is fighting hard to win the enterprise cloud storage market, and Dennis Woodside may have the experience it needs to head up that effort. Read more »