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Kim Dotcom: ‘I don’t think your data is safe on Mega anymore’

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by on July 31, 2015 at 9:28 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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In a Q&A session with Slashdot users this week, Kim Dotcom, the infamous former millionaire at the center of a US court case against Megaupload, has told all about what happened to his new site. Mega was created by Dotcom two years ago as a secure, encrypted alternative to his former service. It launched at a lavish party to much fanfare and has proved relatively popular since. Dotcom, however, is no longer involved in the site due to ongoing legal battles and a separation from his wife, who owned his shares in the site. A user on Slashdot asked Dotcom: “I’ve…

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Why Apple Music and Spotify are Coke and Pepsi

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by on July 31, 2015 at 7:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion

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The most ridiculous of all dumb theories in tech journalism is “the killer.” You set up an undisputed champion in a particular market – the classic is the iPhone – and then posit that a new entrant is “the killer” that must/will/can knock it out. It’s based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how consumerism works. For a brand to fly, doesn’t mean it has to destroy another. But that’s the scenario being sketched around Spotify and Apple Music. The latter has only been available for a month and yet pundits are already itchily discussing why it hasn’t knocked the Swedish…

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Want to compete with WhatsApp, Facebook and Line in messaging? Here’s how

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by on July 31, 2015 at 7:28 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Firechat, Glide, wechat, whatsapp

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The mobile messaging space is close to saturated with major services like WhatsApp, Line and Facebook’s Messenger. But smaller players believe there’s still room for niche apps that cater to specific needs. Speaking at the Rise Conference in Hong Kong today, Jonathan Caras, CTO of video messaging platform Glide and Micha Benoliel, co-founder and CEO of Firechat developer Open Garden shared insights on where their apps can fit in. Neither app competes directly with the likes of WhatsApp and Messenger. Caras, whose app facilitates quick one-on-one and group video chats, believes that “there’s space for different apps to be your…

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Favorite service down? Amazon Web Services is having issues

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by on July 31, 2015 at 7:25 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Amazon Web Services, the cloud hosting platform behind many popular apps and websites, is having issues right now in multiple regions. Services like Yo, Typeform and Yik Yak are unavailable as a result of the outages, which appear to span across the US East, US West and North Virginia data centers. The current issues with Yik Yak appear to be related to an Amazon AWS outage. Our Yaks are working to get things fixed! — Yik Yak (@YikYakApp) July 31, 2015 According to Down Detector, the issues started at 1:46AM ET. Amazon’s status page only reports issues in the North Virginia region right…

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