Author: Nick

The July 9 management shake-up that proved to be Apple’s salvation

Former Apple CEO Gil Amelio (Credit: Getty Images) With the dog days of summer upon us, the tech world could use a diversion beyond the seemingly endless PRISM story and the accompanying saga of one Edward Snowden. So it is that one popular parlor game within some segments of the chattering class is to pose the seemingly provocative question of whether Apple’s best days are behind it.

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Dropbox aims to replace the hard drive altogether

SAN FRANCISCO — Aiming to replace the hard drive altogether, Dropbox is making moves to expand operating as just a simple cloud storage app to a fully-fledged platform of services. Introduced at the cloud storage provider’s first developer conference on Tuesday morning, the Dropbox Platform was touted by the company’s CEO and founder Drew Houston as “a new foundation to solve the problems of sync so you don’t have to.” He outlined this includes keeping structured data in sync, working offline, handling conflicts, and working across operating systems.

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