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Hello World. The consumer cloud computer unfolds.

Daniel Arthursson — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:00:00 +0100

Hello World. The consumer cloud computer unfolds.

icloud, today announces an affordable and easy to use cloud-based home server with open APIs. Expect consumer electronics, software and online services to make use of this new mass-consumer friendly online computer. The always-ON computer opens up a new era where electronic devices easily can integrate and make use of the cloud.

Linköping, Sweden - February 26, 2010 - Today’s launch of the icloud Ready Program for the consumer electronics industry is a milestone...

Supercharge your iPhone with icloud and 100 GB storage

Daniel Arthursson — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:00:00 +0100

Supercharge your iPhone with icloud and 100 GB storage

icloud, the online computer, today rolls out icloud Premium -- a massive 100 GB of secure cloud storage for only $39.99 / year. Everybody can now access all their content anytime and anywhere. icloud Basic with 3 GB is available for free, and open for sign-ups at http://icloud.com.

Linköping, Sweden - December 16th, 2009 - Today's launch of icloud Premium and the 100 GB Super Drive will...

icloud launches Super Search, Universal Sharing and new Start menu

Daniel Arthursson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:00:00 +0100

icloud, the World’s First Online Computer, Launches New Desktop, Sharing and Super Search - Extending the Life of Aging Computers with the Power of Cloud Computing

icloud, the online service that gives you the freedom of your friends, files and digital life on any computer. Six months after launch, icloud is available worldwide in 26 languages and used in 170 countries by over 200,000 users.

Linköping, Sweden - November 2nd, 2009 - icloud today announces the launch...

Private File Sharing Network

Daniel Arthursson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:00:00 +0100

icloud, the world’s first free online computer, announcing steps toward Web Freedom with its Secure and Private File Sharing Network

The icloud file sharing idea is easy: people and groups need private and secure sharing, storage and backup of files. With icloud you upload, access and share your music, videos and photos with people you trust.

Linköping, Sweden - July 2nd, 2009 - icloud the online computer that gives you the freedom of your friends, files and digital life...

icloud unveils file sharing and community

Daniel Arthursson — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:00:00 +0100

Get your Free Online Computer - Outside the Box - icloud Now adding File Sharing and Community to the Cloud

icloud, the world’s first free online computer, giving you the freedom of your friends, files and digital life on any computer. New launched features include; desktop + community, file sharing, publishing of files up to 150 MB and import of contacts.

Linköping, Sweden - May 12th, 2009 - icloud today unveils that it is more than an online computer;...

icloud expands into nine more countries

Daniel Arthursson — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:00:00 +0100

icloud, the world's first free online computer, expands its fast-growing service into nine more countries

New languages include; Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese for Portugal and Romanian.

Linköping, Sweden - May 5th, 2009 - Xcerion today announce that icloud, the online service that gives you the freedom of your friends, files and digital life on any computer, is offered globally in nine more languages. Previously icloud is available in Chinese, English, Filipino, German, Portuguese for Brazil,...

icloud has launched! :-)

Daniel Arthursson — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:45:21 +0100

icloud, the world’s first free online computer, launches worldwide today, taking Cloud Computing to the next level

icloud, the online service that gives you the freedom of your friends, files and digital life on any computer. After 8 years of development icloud is today officially launched worldwide as the online PC for everyone without a PC

Linköping, Sweden - April 7th, 2009 - Xcerion today announce the launch of icloud, the world’s first free online computer, giving everybody in the...

Improved speed with Akamai

Daniel Arthursson — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:00:00 +0100

icloud have this week switched to a new Content Delivery Network (CDN) partner, called Akamai (http://akamai.com). This is a speedy step forward when it comes to efficiently serving icloud world-wide. Through Akamai, icloud is distributed over 25 000 high efficiency servers all over the world.

The time it now takes for you to access an image, application or program from icloud is much, much lower. You will be able to access it from one of Akamai’s servers in your country with reduced ping time compared to accessing it through...

Firefox, Firefox, Firefox!!!

Daniel Arthursson — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:45:21 +0100

This is another exciting moment for us; finally we have our first Firefox Alpha version ready in icloud. Today on Friday the 13th we bring some hope to everybody that is running Firefox :-)

As it is an Alpha version, it is definitively not perfect, but most of the core functionality of icloud is now running on Firefox; the XML Virtual Machine, most of the user-interface components and a basic set of applications – the look and feel is as in the IE version. We are now working on the speed issues, adding, certifying and testing more...

icloud gets a lot of new features - Movie, WebDAV, spell-check and localization

Daniel Arthursson — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:00:00 +0100

This week we have added improvements to icloud in terms of functionality, speed, quality and usability. As you might have noticed we have been a bit quiet for a couple of months, we have been busy working on this big release.

So what are the new "bells and whistles"?

Movie – A cool movie player and library application that is integrating with both YouTube and MetaCafé. This means that you can organize and share your YouTube and MetaCafé favorite movie clips, while using a sleek and smart user interface. Great app try it out and give us...

Xcerion Named a Winner of the Red Herring 100 Global Award

Daniel Arthursson — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Xcerion, the Swedish company that in 2009 will give everybody in the world that does not have a computer its own “free computer online”, today announced that it has been chosen a winner of the prestigious Red Herring 100 Global Award.

Past award winners include Google, Yahoo, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, and YouTube.

Daniel Arthursson, CEO of Xcerion, said, "We are honored to be A Winner of the Red Herring 100 Global Award for 2008. We have worked hard for 7 years with our free computer online; icloud.com....

Christmas Release

Peter Wahlgren — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:00:00 +0100

First some exciting news; Xcerion is proud to have been selected as a Red Herring Global Top 200 finalist after being selected as a 2008 Red Herring Europe 100 winner.

The year is coming to an end and we couldn’t leave 2008 without a few improvements. We have done a lot of improvements under the hood that might not be visible to the every day user at a quick glance.

All system dialogs have got a new transparent purple-blue liquid design, to better match all the new...

iPlay and Map applications

Marcus Bristav — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:00:00 +0100

We had a release last week with some features that I already wrote about. Now, this week, we released a couple of new applications again.

iPlay

iPlay is our music player. You can upload files to iPlay and then listen to them. The user interface is pretty similar to our Photos application (and iTunes) and should feel familiar to a lot of people. We will add a "mini view" soon that is similar to for example Winamps minimized view. We'll also add an extra playlist view soon for those people who prefer to have the ability to search in the library...

At last... Sharing and MSN

Marcus Bristav — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:00 +0100

We just made a new release and this time we've got two really nice new features to introduce.

Sharing
MSN integration

Smaller things includes a News reader application and new features in the Calendar and in the Mail application.

Sharing

In the previous release we introduced a completely new feature called Shared Windows which to my knowledge is completely unique for icloud. This time around the sharing functionality focuses on content. You can very easily share files to other users of icloud through some different means. For example:

You have a "share pad" on the desktop onto where you can drag files to share
You...

Major icloud, Cloud OS release - Liquid and Share Window!

Daniel Arthursson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Today’s release is a major release of our Cloud OS. The whole team at Xcerion are today quite proud to present our new ”Liquid” skin for icloud. Liquid is a new skin that was designed to set icloud apart from other Operating Systems and to create a more unique icloud look and feel.

Initially Liquid will be available in the current transparent graphite look, later multiple themes and colors will become available, enabling personalized customization. If you think that you will...

Icloud Summer and Autumn updates

Marcus Bristav — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0100

During the Summer and Autumn we have done a few new icloud releases. They have been smaller fixes but we have also added some more major features.

Dayplan Mail

The Dayplan application now includes email functionality with contact handling. Currently we have IMAP support where you'll need an IMAP account that icloud can then hook up to. What you need in order to use the email functionality:

An email address
Email account information from your email provider that supports IMAP

icloud then uses the provided information to connect to your mail provider and fetches the email. What we also do is that...

icloud Developer Competition Winners!

Marcus Bristav — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:33:00 +0100

Xcerion can today proudly announce the winners of the icloud Developer Competition. We have during our developer competition received quite a few good, useful and funny applications. The apps that where sent in was everything from small games, to calculators, drink databases and blog writing tools.

Thank you for all the good feedback we have received from many participating developers. We have listened to your feedback and we have made many improvements of icloud. During the developer competition we have improved the developer documentation, added debugging support and made the development more interactive. You can now develop an application while...

Application Designer, Write and faster loading

Marcus Bristav — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Today we're releasing a couple of new applications.

Application Designer

This is a pretty nice application where you can build other applications. It has a visual user interface designer where you can drag and drop components and visually build interfaces. Makes life a lot simpler for application developers and can speed up development significantly. It also has some other features to help speed up authoring of process files as well. Check out our video that demos this application soon.

Write

This is an application where you can edit rich text documents. It's still a bit limited in functionality, although...

A new name for our "Cloud OS", icloud

Daniel Arthursson — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:00:00 +0100

Today we re-branded our cloud OS into a name more suitable for the service. We have worked many months on securing this new name and we are very happy that we finally have the opportunity to announce and present it for all of you.

As from today, you will see the new name when you log into the OS. Icloud and the cloud logo are present directly on the desktop. Everyone familiar with XIOS/3 has seen the...

New and improved applications - IM and Dayplan

Marcus Bristav — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:00:00 +0100

First I just wanted to remind all you developers that we have extended the deadline for the developer competition. Hope you will help us to get some "killer apps" into our Cloud.

Another release is now out. This time it included improvements to Instant Messaging and the addition of the brand new Dayplan application. The release also included a number of small fixes at various places in the Operating System and our other applications.

Dayplan

The Dayplan application is a Calendar application. The functionality today is to schedule and view appointments and tasks in a week or a day view.

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