cloud storage

Popular personal cloud-based storage service Ubuntu One has struck Mac OS X computers in beta last Thursday. With the launch, Canonical's service now resides on nearly all major operating systems -- Windows, iOS, Android, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, and few Linux distributions.

Cloud storage is fast becoming a pertinent need of businesses as well as individuals. With the bulk of digital data generated each day, all of us want a secure and safe place to tuck it in and then eventually access whenever required. Intel has now come up with its own Atom-based storage platform which it claims to be highly secure.

Microsoft has been steadily rebooting its entire web presence. At the heart of Microsoft's online presence have been two things since a long time - Hotmail and SkyDrive. Hotmail has been deemed slow, heavy, visually unattractive and unprofessional by critics and users alike. However, Microsoft changed the views of many by rebranding Hotmail.com as…

Cloud storage has suddenly become a very popular concept and nearly all tech giants are now offering a cloud variant of their own. How did this cloud 'revolution' come to be? One of the chief reasons why clouds gained so much popularity in recent times is the explosive growth of the mobile platform, with its smartphones and tablets.

The hard drive industry has been shrinking rapidly. There have been acquisitions and mergers left, right and middle. One of the main reasons is that the a lot of storage is now going into the clouds, offered by alternate tech giants and the traditional hard drive big-wigs are having a hard trying to catch up. The latest in the list of acquisitions…

Dropbox was the first, and perhaps the most successful, cloud storage service that made the world realize how important cloud storage is. And sooner than later, a number of other tech giants such as Google, Apple and Microsoft had jumped the bandwagon, offering their own clouds. The best part is that this has increased the competition and the…

As we reported last week about leakage of Google Drive, today we have got more details. Google Drive will be live from next Tuesday and it will give all user 5GB free space. We also got details how Google Plans to take on Dropbox.

Dropbox is the true sensation in the world of cloud storage services. The company can perhaps be credited with making cloud-storage a mainstream concept. Till now, Dropbox has been offering 2GB of free storage to users. However, now the company announced that users who would avail the service through HTC Sense will get up to 25 GB of free storage.…

For those of you who don’t know with Xbox Live account you get 512MB free storage which you can use to store you game achievements, saved games, game profiles and any other data. This is very useful because later on you can use these files from any other Xbox console that have internet access. In this tutorial I will show you how you can enable…

Before Apple could finally offer a comprehensive and workable model of cloud-based services in the form of iCloud, it has launched and tested a number of other ventures regarding online services. Some of them didn't work well enough yet others did gain a decent following. One of them, iWork.com which allows online creation and sharing of documents,…