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• Here's how Evernote moved 3 petabytes of data to Google's cloud

  Evernote decided last year that it wanted to move away from running its own data centers and start using the public cloud to operate its popular note taking service.

• Bad with names? 2 Android apps try to help

  A few years ago, Evernote picked up a small contact-manager app called Hello (which was then retitled Evernote Hello). One of the main ideas behind the app was to help those of us who had trouble remembering names (a category I definitely fall into). It let you take notes about people you met at, say, a conference, and pick up extra information, including photos, from LinkedIn. You could then use the info and/or the photos to jog your memory.

• Google RSS death creates $1.3M business

  Google's decision last year to kill Google Reader, its RSS feed and Web-based service, allowed a then-tiny rival to grow into a company with revenue of at least US$1.3 million annually.

• RSS service Feedly vows to resist DDoS extortionists

  RSS aggregator Feedly today vowed not to give in to an extortion demand backed by a distributed-denial-of service attack that knocked its site offline eary Wednesday.

• Evernote hit by denial of service attack

  Evernote was resuming operations early Wednesday following a denial of service attack.

• IaaS vendor Dyn buys out Nettica for DNS services, talent

  New Hampshire-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service company Dyn announced today that it would purchase managed DNS provider Nettica. Terms were not disclosed.

• Evernote promises to fix bugs after writer's detailed critique

  Evernote plans to fix bugs and improve the quality of its note-taking and recording applications, following a critique that its software suffers from too many bugs.

• Don't say no to BYOD and personal clouds, but understand the legal risks when you say yes

  While you have undoubtedly heard all the gloom and doom stories regarding individuals using personally owned devices or personally controlled cloud services like Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, Idrive, Evernote and similar services, don't forget the law of unintended consequences.

• Feedly walks fine line between free and paid RSS services

  Feedly on Monday launched its paid RSS service, following up on a promise made three weeks ago when it announced a subscription option.

• CirroScope: Stealthy cloud security startup hatched by ex-Symantec teammates

  A small team of ex-Symantec security experts has formed a stealthy Silicon Valley start-up called CirroScope that's focused on shielding enterprises from threats stemming from their use of SaaS applications such Box, Salesforce.com and Google Apps.

• Evernote originally wanted to make 'egg-like' hardware

  Note-taking software provider Evernote originally wanted to delve into the hardware business as far back as 2007, with an egg-like device capable of recording conversations, the company's CEO said on Tuesday.

• Evernote CEO: We want to build hardware

  The CEO of archiving service Evernote said his company will soon release branded hardware with partners, as it moves toward creating its own devices.

• Evernote account used to deliver instructions to malware

  A piece of malicious software spotted by Trend Micro uses the note-taking service Evernote as a place to pick up new instructions.

• Google launches Keep for personal notes

  Google is looking to replace physical sticky notes with Keep, a new product designed for storing notes and other pieces of information.

• Following hack, Evernote speeds move to two-factor authentication

  Evernote is speeding up its plans to offer two-factor authentication to users following a recent data breach that exposed user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords.