Amazon.com suffer outage, may have faced a loss of about $10 million

Amazon

It happens very rarely, but Amazon.com was down for hours because of anonymous reason. Amazon.com had been showing the message since Thursday afternoon, Http/1.1 Service Unavailable However Amazon.com was the only extension of the American multinational electronic commerce company that seemed to have suffered the outage. All of its other domains viz. .ca, .uk appeared to be working perfectly. Also Amazon Web Services i.e. [...]

MEGA is Mega, rising above and bashing competition

Mega

Recently launched MEGA, the new cloud storage service by Kim Schmitz aka Kim Dotcom has been proven with 100,000 registered users in the first hour with demand overhead. As updates are coming, over 250,000 user registrations are done and the server capacity is on maximum load. The founder Kim Dotcom  tweeted: Site is still overloaded. Massive [...]

MEGA hits 100,000 registered users in one hour with demand overhead

MEGA

Exactly one year after the Megaupload has been destroyed by the government, yesterday Kim Dotcom again launched his new platform named MEGA which would offer 50GB of cloud storage for free users. In less than 24 hours since launch, Kim announced that his service has been growing faster around the globe. The registration of around 100,000 [...]

MEGA preview available now, premium pricing revealed

MEGA

This weekend marked one of the most controversial event scheduled, the advent of MEGA. Kim Dotcom’s new platform is launched exactly one year after the U.S. FBI stormed into the mansion of the controversial entrepreneur in New Zealand. MEGA will be available from this weekend, but taking into account the time difference with New Zealand, some users have already [...]

MEGA to offer 50GB of free storage without subscription: Kim Dotcom

MEGA

With less than 48 hours for the MEGA launch, Kim Dotcom, the father of Megaupload has posted on Twitter that MEGA would offer 50GB of cloud storage for free users. #Mega will have very generous limits for free users. For example you get 50GB storage for free — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) January 17, 2013 Last week, he also [...]

China tightens Internet Rules to protect online privacy

Internet

The China government has issued a new set of internet rules to protect the online privacy of the internet users. The new rules force 500 million users to provide their real names to the service provider, and the internet companies to delete forbidden postings. Standing committee of the National People’s Congress approved the rules on [...]

Kim Dotcom reveals screenshots of MegaUpload’s successor, Mega

Kim Dotcom

It has been more than a month since Kim Dotcom announced his plans to launch a new file sharing service Mega. Dotcom has posted three new screenshots of upcoming service which will be hosted at the New Zealand based domain Mega.co.nz. Screenshots reveal an encryption key generator, the registration page and the file manager. First screenshot shows [...]

Google fights for Free and Open Internet as Nations meet to discuss Web Rules

Google FreeAndOpen

As the World Conference on International Telecommunications started on Monday, Google cleared its stand on the future of the Internet. The 12-day meet taking place in Dubai is sponsored by International Telecommunication Union, an agency of the United Nations. The meeting aims at redefining international telecommunications regulations, that were last modified in 1988. Speculations are high that during the [...]