Google had all the pieces from content hosting (YouTube) to software delivery (Google TV, Android) to penetration in the living room (Motorola Home) but seems to have not been able to assemble the puzzle together into a compelling offering.
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They also say they're not breaking any copyright laws, since they merely link to content instead of hosting it on their own site.
"File hosting services need to be more proactive in ensuring they are not hosting illegal content, " said its chief executive Geoff Taylor.
As public clouds continue to grow, the opportunity to transform companies providing dedicated hosting, content delivery or front-end Web servers are also growing.
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Dinaburg admits that at the moment bitsquatting, the act of hosting malicious content at site one bit flip away, is not yet a pervasive problem.
Publicly available websites hosting such content tend to be taken down very quickly but when one pops up, it illustrates the demand for such images.
The company said that Omnifone, a cloud music service provider, is providing the back-end for the service, including content management, music hosting and reporting functions.
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There was a clumsy early attempt to gag the sites when a senior minister pulled them up for hosting "objectionable content".
LinkedIn also is pushing into content by aggregating business news and hosting expert blog posts, to give professionals more reasons to linger on the site.
My experience with video through CollegeHumor had taught me that hosting user-generated content without a filter would lead to inevitable legal trouble with the big media companies.
Rackspace Hosting shares are trading sharply lower Friday morning after the company announced sharp price cuts for content delivery services and a new pricing scheme for hosting.
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Their new Creative Cloud and their Publishing Suite are all attempts to capture ongoing cloud hosting revenues from creative and content assets.
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The IWF is the UK charity that monitors images of child sexual abuse and helps to get the content removed from British internet service providers and hosting firms.
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"Although Carpathia does not have, and has never had, access to the content on Megaupload's servers, the hosting provider wants to assist lawful users of the Megaupload service by promoting EFF and its nonprofit legal services, " the company said in a statement.
Smaller social networks, image-sharing sites, free website hosting platforms and hacked websites are increasingly being used by content distributors desperate to avoid detection.
By hosting more complex data--fully functional applications rather than mere content--ChinaCache can generate higher margins, close to 50% higher profit per gigabyte of data, according to ChinaCache Chief Operating Officer Richard Xu.
This new feature allows designers to maintain precise control over their designs, provides more efficient support for publishing, and is the beginning of a longer-term effort to bring more extensive content management capabilities to Adobe Muse users through tighter integration with Adobe's hosting solution, Adobe Business Catalyst.
Opponents are particularly concerned about the House legislation, which would allow the Hollywood studios and other content owners to ask credit-card processors to block payments to U.S. websites accused of hosting pirated material.
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