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Quicken online’s two-day outage could cost customers more than time

by Jay Garmon on Jun 16, 2010 in Data Loss Examples
404 error in real life

Image by redtype via Flickr If you use Quicken Online or Quickbooks Online, odds are you’re pretty peeved right now — both services have been offline since 7pm Tuesday. Intuit.com, the company’s parent site, and TurboTax online have been shuttered, too. This is Intuit’s first major outage since February 2009, which is a pretty laudable [...]

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What the looming Apple-Google showdown means for your data

by Jay Garmon on May 24, 2010 in Google Services
An apple with the logo of Google made with laser

Image by missha via Flickr The blogosphere (or, at least, TechCrunch) is all a-twitter (pun!) that Google is going to war with Apple on several fronts, based on announcements from the Google I/O event last week. Google TV is going to take on Apple TV and, more generally, Apple’s iTunes video downloads. The Android Music [...]

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When it comes to online privacy, the enemy of my enemy is my friend

by Jay Garmon on Apr 08, 2010 in Security in the Cloud
privacy is dead

Image by striatic via Flickr News broke last week that Google, Microsoft, and AT&T were teaming up rewrite privacy regulations, which struck many as a welcome sign and which a few (myself included) as a bit suspicious. AT&T, for example, famously beat the rap for allegedly violating user privacy by cooperating with the Bush administration’s [...]

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Why GigaOm is right (and wrong) about Backupify

by Jay Garmon on Feb 18, 2010 in Backups
cloud computing

On Monday, Mathew Ingram over at GigaOm offered his reaction to Backupify getting VC funding. Put simply, Ingram was skeptical about the future of our company. He made some fair points. We agree with some of them. Let’s take the criticisms one by one: “[T]he main problem for Backupify is that it suffers from all [...]

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