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Windows Azure Store Selling App Services And Data In Australia

Good news for cloud developers with a data fixation: the Windows Azure Store has expanded to Australia, allowing developers to buy (and sell) data sets for use with their cloud applications. Australia was one of 25 new markets added to the service last week. [Windows Azure Store via Windows Azure Blog]


DIY Data Recovery Tricks For When Your Hard Drive Goes Belly Up

Imagine this: you’re busy working on your computer and need to access documents saved on your external hard drive. You connect it, get ready to find your data and… nothing happens. Your hard drive isn’t working. Uh oh. Before you panic, there are several things you can try on your own before calling in the pros.


Why Does Per-MB Charging Matter?

Vodafone backflipped on its plans to introduce per-MB charging on its prepaid plans yesterday. Given many plans offer gigabytes of data, why does this actually matter?


Typical Aussie Mobile Plan Data: 1.5GB

Data charges can be a major source of bill shock, but how much data does the typical Australian mobile phone owner sign up for? The answer: a relatively scrawny 1500MB.


Ask LH: How Can I Sync All Of My Phone’s Data With Someone Else?

Dear Lifehacker, My wife just got her first iPhone, and I want to streamline everything we do: share our contact lists, calendars, task lists and grocery lists. so we don’t have two versions of everything floating around. How can I do this? I want as much of our daily info as collaborative as possible.


How To Stop Your Smartphone From Secretly Wasting Data In The Background

Most of us have to watch our data usage in order to avoid excess charges on our bill. That can become difficult when our smartphones eat up our precious megabytes in the background, and it’s an issue for both Android and iPhone. Here’s how to stop it.


Onavo Count Watches Your iPhone Data Usage

iOS: Onavo Count, our favourite data usage tracker for Android, is now available for iPhone users looking to avoid hefty excess data fees.


DataWiz Is A Complete Data Usage Tracking Tool For iPhone

iOS: If you don’t have a generous data plan with your mobile phone carrier, then you likely keep pretty close track of your data usage so you don’t go over. While a lot of different apps exist to help you do this, DataWiz is a tracking app that has all types of useful features to help keep your data bill down.


Telstra’s 1GB Bonus Data Offer: Not That Exciting

From now until October 31, Telstra is offering an additional 1GB of data for the first 12 months on contract plans costing $80 a month or more (or $60 a month or more for BYO plans). That gives you 2.5GB a month rather than 1.5GB on the cheapest plan. If you’re signing up with Telstra anyway, the extra data would certainly be welcome, but it’s still a relatively small amount compared to rival contract plans. [Telstra Exchange]


Tweet Keeper Archives Your Old Tweets

iOS: Our Twitter feed is probably the closest thing many of us have to a daily journal, yet Twitter doesn’t provide a way for us to easily export the data or search our own tweets. Tweet Keeper is an iOS app that will liberate your data from the service and make it completely searchable.


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