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Some musings on yesterday’s Apple announcements

Posted by | Sep 2, 2010 | , |

Now that I’d had a few hours to think about all the announcements from Apple at yesterday’s special event, here are some random musings about them.

Despite rumors of the iPod shuffle’s demise, it lives on. For now. I still think that its days are numbered, now that the nano has gotten so small. Eventually, I think we’ll see a 2GB nano replacing the shuffle entirely.

Hmmm, the new nano trades its camera for a touchscreen. Is that a good swap?

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CloudDav enables WebDav access for S3, SkyDrive, other Storage Clouds

Posted by | Sep 2, 2010 | , |

SMEStorage (http://www.smestorage.com) has announced that CloudDav is now available to purchase for all registered users of the SMEStorage Gateway service, whether they are free or premium members.

CloudDav enables WebDav access for supported storage clouds, such as Amazon S3 and SkyDrive, even when the underlying storage cloud itself does not support it. This makes it ideal for being able to access documents via iPhone/iPad applications that support WebDav, such as Office2,  from storage providers that are otherwise not supported, according to SMEStorage CEO Ian Oborne.

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