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Microsoft is giving out 20 GB of additional SkyDrive storage space to all its Windows Phone users. Although it hasn’t been officially announced yet, a bunch of Windows Phone users (including me) have reportedly received the confirming emails.

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Music streaming services like Spotify and Rdio are pretty awesome, but there’s an annoying thing about them – they aren’t available in most non-US countries. If you’re in a country like India, where Spotify isn’t yet available, here’s a trick to get it working.

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In previous posts we’ve talked about how we calculate, predict, and use content popularity for Open Connect to maximize the efficiency of our content delivery network and other data science challenges in this space. We also recently talked about improvements we made in the server throughput space.

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Jekyll, the static website generator written in Ruby and popularized by GitHub, is a great candidate for being run on Heroku. Originally built to run on GitHub Pages, running Jekyll on Heroku allows you to take advantage of Jekyll’s powerful plugin system to do more than convert Markdown to HTML.

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Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo, whatever the email service you are using, you would always want to keep a backup of your important emails. This assures  that you never lose your past emails even if you fail to retain the access of your email account. So many tools are out there to backup the emails.

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When was the last time you printed that picture you took from your mobile phone? At the max, you probably Instagrammed it, or shared with friends on social media. Photo printing service is mainly used by professionals and enthusiasts. Services like  Canvera that cater to this demand are thriving.

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Popular Music Streaming service Dhingana appears to be shutting down. Indian online magazine, SoundBox, which covers music related news, confirmed that Dhingana will shutter its operations when this month and accordingly the year, runs out.

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Following our previous conversation with Applauze, where we talked to them about their need to handle spiky, demand-driven traffic, we discuss the details of their application architecture, their previous generation design, how they started down the road to serverless architectures, and lessons they

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Facebook Inc. Founder & current CEO Mark Zuckerberg has decided to put up 41.4 Million of his own personal shares for sale, to cover a substantial tax bill. Meanwhile the company will pump in additional 70 Million Shares into the stock market. Zuckerberg, who currently has a voting power of 58.

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During Mumbai Comic Con event in Mumbai, Microsoft announced the launch of Amar Chitra Katha Comic App, which will offer comics created by Amar Chitra Katha is an easy to read, downloadable format.

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Fear and frustration in fighting functions for a weekend. After the elation of coming off Serverlessconf, I set out to commit a couple of distraction-free days on implementing some of what I learned. Today is Monday and this is my account of what happened this last weekend.

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Last month when Winamp announced that it is shutting down, it took the entire world by shock. In the real sense of the word, it marked the end of an era.

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Simple documents and files can be sent through email services like Gmail, Yahoo, etc. To share large number of files or a single large file, we can either choose file sharing services or cloud services for the secured file transfer.

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SMS can be used as a valid document in coming days as per a latest PTI report. Indian citizens can use SMS communication with government departments as a documentary proof while availing citizen services for making payments, registrations and other government schemes.

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Bitcoin finally hits $10,000! — The Economist, Nov. 28th, 2017 Bitcoin surpasses the $10,000 milestone! — CNBC, Nov. 28th, 2017

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If you want to build a successful business, you need to be laser focused on a single goal, right? Sure, conventional wisdom says we can’t multi-task and need to stay away from shiny object syndrome. But startups are far from conventional.

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Amazon ECS (EC2 Container Service) provides Container Management Service in AWS without needing to own Cluster Management Infrastructure. This story captures salient features of AWS Container Offerings as a quick reference including the Reinvent:2017 announcements