Microsoft is offering users who backup their photos to OneDrive the opportunity to double their free online storage for a limited time. From now until the end of September, users can claim 30GB of space for saving twice as many photos in the cloud.

All you have to do is sign up for OneDrive and activate the auto upload feature for your camera roll sometime between now and the end of September, and you will get 30 GB of free OneDrive storage moving forward (15 GB base and 15 GB camera roll bonus).”

Microsoft is marketing the offer at iPhone users who are upgrading to iOS 8 or purchasing a new iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus, but the extra space can be claimed by Android and Windows Phone users, too. Just remember that you must sign up before the end of September, otherwise you’re going to miss out on the 15GB bonus.

By backing up your photos and videos to an online storage service like OneDrive, you can enjoy them at any time and on almost any device without having to store them locally. That’s why a service like OneDrive is essential for users with entry-level and midrange devices that don’t offer a lot of internal storage — or 16GB iPhone users that don’t have the pleasure of a microSD card slot.
By storing your photos and videos in the cloud, you can save local storage space and have more room for apps, music, movies, and more. It also means that if your handset is lost or stolen and you never get it back, you haven’t lost your precious memories.

Today at the Google for Entrepreneurs Global Partner Summit, Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Technical Infrastructure & Google Fellow announced Google Cloud Platform for Startups. This new program will help eligible early-stage startups take advantage of the cloud and get resources to quickly launch and scale their idea by receiving $100,000 in Cloud Platform credit, 24/7 support, and access to our technical solutions team.

This offer is available to startups around the world through top incubators, accelerators and investors. We are currently working with over 50 global partners to provide this offer to startups who have less than $5 million dollars in funding and have less than $500,000 in annual revenue. In addition, we will continue to add more partners over time.

This offer supports our core Google Cloud Platform philosophy: we want developers to focus on code; not worry about managing infrastructure. Starting today, startups can take advantage of this offer and begin using the same infrastructure platform we use at Google. For example, Headspace is helping millions of people keep their minds healthier and happier using Google Cloud Platform for Startups.

Thousands of startups have built successful applications on Google Cloud Platform and those applications have grown to serve tens of millions of users. It has been amazing to watch Snapchat send over 700 million photos and videos a day and Khan Academy teach millions of students. We look forward to helping the next generation of startups launch great products.

For more information on Google Cloud Platform for Startups, visit http://cloud.google.com/startups.

Apple is working directly with celebrities and their publicists to investigate the alleged iCloud hack that may have played a large part in a large cache of nude photographs being released online. Part of that investigation involves obtaining Apple account login information of the people affected, Mashable has learned.

It's not known exactly why Apple needs its users' login information, but presumably it gives them a level of access into a user's account records that they otherwise wouldn't be able to obtain, at least not easily. The company does say that password information stored in iCloud is encrypted and can't be read by Apple. Apple's internal investigation may shine some light on how nude photos of dozens of celebrities were gathered and then released over the weekend. While some have pointed to a potential vulnerability in iCloud security (which has reportedly been patched), there are indications, including the age of some of the photos, that the cache was part of a larger, more complicated effort.

At the same time, the FBI is looking into the iCloud hack, although it stopped short of saying it was opening a full investigation. The incident also raises unsettling questions about the general state of security for cloud storage services, which are now a major part of both personal services and business workflow.

A 3D chip stack that utilises carbon nanotubes could theoretically power supercomputers small enough to fit in a pocket, according to researchers. Philip Wong, an electrical engineering professor at Stanford University, claims that the chip stack would reduce the power needs of supercomputer systems to such an extent that a computer as powerful as IBM's Watson could one day come in a pocket-sized form.

"This design requires new, highly-efficient heat spreaders," Wong said at the recent Semicon West conference. "The thermal aspect is critically important. "The resulting design could provide a thousand-fold power reduction for the IBM system that consumed 175kW power to beat human contestants in the Jeopardy gameshow."

Wong admits that there are significant challenges to be met before such a system could be practically implemented. "The material is not suitable for the high-temperature doping processes used in today's chip fabs," Wong said. "Researchers still need to improve the purity of the material they grow. And, like all transistor materials, it faces challenges when contacts scale to increasingly small sizes."

The advancement of technology has often been summarised by Moore's law, which states that the number of transistors that it is possible to fit onto a chip doubles every two years. This rule has held fast since the dawn of computers, however in the last few years it has begun to collapse. The reason behind this is the limitations of silicon as a semiconductor; it is not possible to reliably scale down chips below 10 nanometres. It is widely believed that carbon nanotubes could hold the key to overcoming this scaling issue and re-establishing Moore's law. One of those betting on carbon nanotubes is IBM. Earlier this month the firm announced a new $3 billion (£1.8 bn) project that aims to build commercial transistors using carbon nanotubes by 2020.

In a post on the company's blog, Feedly announces that their servers have suffered a distributed denial-of service (DDoS) attack.

An update was published a short while ago saying that the infrastructure is modified so that the online service is restored. Using Twitter as communication channel, Evernote, the popular note-taking service that integrates with Feedly, informed their followers of a similar problem, but later on, the company managed to restore services, which are up and running at the moment. Evernote did not publish other details about the attack, but Feedly informed that the purpose of the service disruption was money extortion.

“Criminals are attacking feedly with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). The attacker is trying to extort us money to make it stop,” the company says.

Security experts advise not to give in to ransom requests in order to discourage criminals from such practice; and this is exactly the action Feedly took, as their technicians worked to restore functionality of the service and cooperated with law enforcement to determine the group behind the attack.

“We refused to give in and are working with our network providers to mitigate the attack as best as we can,” says the initial blog post.

Users should not fear about personal details being compromised because the purpose of distributed denial-of-service is to bring down servers by bombarding them with useless data, which, at one point, can no longer be processed by the server. However, such activities can disguise a different type of attack, as was the case with GameOver ZeuS botnet used by cybercriminals to distract victims from noticing a cyberheist.

[UPDATE, June 12]: Feedly made a new post on the company notifying users that the attack has been neutralized and that services are functional on all supported platforms. Updating all users (40 million) may take a few hours, though.

Popular cloud storage service Dropbox has added a new feature to its desktop client, that allows screenshots to be automatically saved and synced to the cloud. This feature is automatically enabled if you have the latest version (2.4.0.) of the Dropbox client installed on your PC (or Mac) and the first time you take a screenshot, you will get a pop up asking if you’d like to save all of your screenshots in the future to Dropbox.

We noticed that our Dropbox client wouldn’t automatically update to the latest version, so if you’re facing the same issue, you can download and install version 2.4.0. from the Dropbox website itself. If you want to create a link to the saved screenshot to share with others, you can use the CTRL+Print Screen command to do so, and the link will be saved to your clipboard.

As an added bonus for all you Mac users, today’s update also includes a nice little importer that copies your photos from iPhoto directly to your Dropbox.

The Indian government on Tuesday unveiled National Cyber Security Policy 2013. Announcing the new policy, Diplomatist of Communications and IT Kapil Sibal said: "...insurance is a frame papers and it gives you a tolerant adumbrate of what our exteroception is...the sincere chore or the contend is the operationalisation of this insurance."

According to Sibal, the policy was obligatory to channel stability in cyber grapheme, especially for the discriminative store such as air protection, land, atomic and telecommunications.

"...air action grouping, index store, nuclear plants, telecommunications system module all mortal to be secure to assure there is no interruption of the gracious that testament destabilise the scheme...disequilibrium in cyber space substance system unsteadiness no commonwealth can open economic unsteadiness, thence it is primary not fitting to fuck a contract but to operationalise it," Sibal supplemental.

The person said the policy would work the governing paraphernalia cyber attacks posit and non-state actors, corporates and terrorists. "In the eventual psychotherapy, we hold to learn circular standards because there is no way that we can acquire a contract within the discourse of Bharat which is not affined with the ease of the humans because substance knows no militia boundaries," Sibal noted.

Low the insurance, the governing give depute investigate and usage in cyber warranty section. According to Sibal, the government plans "to make a manpower of 5,00,000 professionals complete in cyber assets in the next fivesome geezerhood through susceptibleness construction, power developing and training".

Google on Wednesday declared a better update to its Get app for Android. The update aims to kind it easier for Thrust users to access files on the go. It also includes Google Now-inspired card-style grid message and nifty features such as writing scanning.

The Push for Automaton app now appears in a card-style facility message and allows users to swipe between record and outsized previews to reach substance.

"And if you essential to record some Traverse files on your Golem style, you'll now be competent to 'download a duplicate' from the actions listing part settings," says Google in a diary stake. Here's a screenshot of the swiping in mechanism on an Automaton tablet:

The update brings ability to download a repeat of files for offline attain. The update is currently only easy for Robot v3.0 and higher, besides the desktop writing.

Incoming up is the scanning article. The app comes with a scanning deciding (Add New => Examine), which allows users to swan a icon of your writing, feature Thrust run its Optical Property Approval (OCR) study. Users can explore the record afterwards and regularize bout it into a PDF.

Here's full Google Drive 1.2.182.25 for Android changelog:

• New grid view makes it easier to find your files.
• New quick preview lets you view photos and other files from within the app.
• Scan documents, receipts and letters for safe keeping in Drive; then search by contents once uploaded.
• Download a copy of files to your local device (Honeycomb+).
• Spreadsheet editor now supports changing fonts, colors and cell alignment.
• View properties of files from within the editors.
• Bug fixes and visual improvements.

A new Google Action update that's being trilled out to Android devices will add new gaming features to Google Recreation much as cloud action, leaderboards, achievements and multiplayer matchmaking. Humanoid Constabulary managed to get a leaked variant of the update and noticed that the new Google Represent Games incorporates a bunch of features previously seen on Xbox Elastic and the iOS Gamey Tract.

With the new update, Golem gamers leave be healthy to command notifications sent by games and also message game-specific leaderboards. They leave be able to looking the leaderboards according to geography, friends-lists or quantify. Cloud action is the large of the touted features and gift accept an Golem gamer to forbid a gritty on one design and speak to action from where he sinistral off, on other Humanoid style. Darken action for games has been a mainstream attribute for a patch now on PCs and consoles but it hasn't really garnered the recognition it deserves on mobiles. Hopefully, with the Google Spiel Games update, city gamers guardianship of their mettlesome saves every minute they resolve to information their maneuver or move to a new one.

Added distinguished feature that's supposedly future with the new Playact Games update is matchmaking. This boast give let gamers easily get into multiplayer matches by automatically assigning players to matches based on factors same power point, geography, Net connectivity etc. Google is anticipated to  reveal the new Play Games Papers at the I/O association which give be held from May 15 to May 17 in San Francisco. 

Adobe yesterday declared the succeeding of its Inventive Suite parentage of products at Adobe Max, stating that the companion was guidance make of any retail and change over to a subscription only modelling. If you were hoping for the proclamation of a Photoshop CS7 or an Brick Lord Aggregation CS7, lay those hopes to interruption. Achievement this new message, the "CS" in all creation obloquy instrument now be replaced by "CC" for "Inventive Cloud."

Running the accommodation to a completely subscription supported system instrument definitely cater Adobe conflict robbery, which has been a field worry for the fellowship. At the synoptic moment, Brick is also worried near leaving its existing consumer dishonorable miffed and to sweeten the pile, they person introduced special pricing for those who own a lawful reproduce of the CS3 suite and above.

Rs. 2,700 per month can be a little too steep for many individuals, but the pricing seems to run in accord with how much it would cost to update the Creative Suite after 18 months. Regardless, many might find sticking to the existing version of CS6 a better option, albeit, they’d have to live without the amazing new features Adobe will keep bringing to the suite over the coming days, months and year.

Yahoo just announced a new partnership with Dropbox that lets you attach files stored with the popular cloud service to outbound emails. The company is touting the integration as yet another way it's making the email experience simpler for customers.

"The way we see it, you should be able to go into your inbox, do what you need to do and move on with your day," writes David McDowell. Dropbox support brings some nice benefits to users of both services: since files are located in the cloud, Yahoo's traditional 25MB attachment limit no longer applies.

Additionally, Dropbox users can choose to save email attachments directly to the cloud — no local storage necessary. Dropbox support is available now for the web version of Yahoo Mail in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian. For larger attachments, you can simply drag and drop the attachments into your e-mail but can send it via Dropbox.

INTERNET users have been drawn into a row between two online businesses that has slowed internet speeds around the world. The global web problems came after a Dutch web-hosting company took umbrage at being dubbed a source of spam email, and retaliated by launching what has been called the world's largest web attack.

Last night, internet users found web browsing was taking longer than usual. In many cases it was impossible to watch online movies. Users of intensive applications such Netflix are thought to have been particularly badly affected. The interruptions came after Spamhaus, a not-for-profit spam-fighting group based in Geneva, temporarily added the Dutch firm, CyberBunker, to a blacklist that is used by e-mail providers to weed out spam.

CyberBunker is housed in a five-storey former NATO bunker and famously offers its services to any website "except child porn and anything related to terrorism". It has often been linked to behaviour that anti-spam blacklist compilers have condemned. Its response was to mount a huge 'denial of service attack'. This works by trying to make a network unavailable to its intended users, overloading a server with co-ordinated requests to access it.

Internet speeds around the world can be impacted by such large-scale DNS amplified DDoS attacks because the Internet relies on DNS to work — major interference with DNS can have consequences for services not necessarily being directly targeted by such an attack. Internet Service Providers should implement technologies that prevent hackers from spoofing victims' IP addresses. Second, network administrators need to close any and all open DNS resolvers running on their network.

"Anyone that's running a network needs to go to openresolverproject.org, type in the IP addresses of their network and see if they're running an open resolver on their network," said Prince. "Because if they are, they're being used by criminals in order to launch attacks online. And it's incumbent on anyone running a network to make sure they are not wittingly aiding in the destruction of the Internet."

According to a Wall Street Journal report, the Mailbox service offering will be broadened, with new features, including support for more devices and email providers well as new features.

Adobe’s had the Creative Cloud subscription service running in the US, Australia and some parts of South Asia for some time now, but India has just been brought onto the bandwagon. As part of the subscription, a user can download any of the programs available under the Adobe Master Collection any number of times onto one machine within the period of their subscription. That means that for a monthly fee of Rs.2885, you can have Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator as well as Lightroom, Premiere Pro and After Effects. Additionally, an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription for Teams comes with 100GB of cloud storage to facilitate easy work sharing between team members.

Adobe yesterday announced the availability of the Creative Cloud Subscription service in India. Users can now leverage the full power of Adobe’s Creativity tools for a monthly fee of Rs. 2,885 per month per user. Adobe says that this is a promotional pricing valid till April 30th, after which the pricing will jump to Rs. 4,040 per month per user.

Adobe has been pushing for turning its service from a one-time-purchase top subscription based as it would make revenue more consistent. The current plan that can be had for Rs. 2885 per month per user is a promotional price, with the actual cost being Rs. 4040 per user per month. Interestingly, the same subscription in the US costs $49.99 per month per user, almost 40% cheaper.