Mobile operator MTN has made its first play into the consumer cloud computing market – and taken aim at over-the-top rivals like Google and Dropbox – with a cloud service that provides its users with unlimited storage capacity for a fixed monthly fee of R99
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Did you recently buy a Samsung smart TV? If you are worried about privacy, you may be wondering how smart that decision was following the manufacturer’s warnings that its voice-activated televisions may record personal information – that is, your
Cape Town-based start-up Snapdisk is a cloud backup and syncing service of the sort made popular by Dropbox and Box.net. Where it differs, though, is the scale of its offering and the fact that it’s offering its basic package of 500GB of online backup space for free for a year. The service went live at the beginning of February and, although most
Cloud storage powerhouse Dropbox revealed on Monday that half of the popular rock band U2, Bono and The Edge, are investors in the company. Dropbox closed a jaw-dropping US$250m round in October 2011, so it appears Bono and The Edge were part of that round that also included names like Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital
Online backup services like Dropbox have a new rival. This time, though, the service, called Zovo Backup, is promising unlimited storage space online. The company, founded by self-described “serial entrepreneur” Hamlesh Motah