Microsoft’s SkyDrive service offers users 25GB of free online storage space for just about any type of file. That number hasn’t changed since 2008, but it’s still more free storage than most of Microsoft’s competitors offer. But now the company is getting ready to remove the limit altogether… for some file types. LiveSide reports that Microsoft will soon let users…

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Online storage service Box.net is one of dozens of online storage service that offers users a small amount of disk space for free and a larger amount for a fee. It’s also one of the best, allowing users to do things like share links with contacts, sync files with your desktop, access your files on a mobile device, view Office…

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Most netbook users treat their little laptops as second or third devices. It’s the computer you grab when you need to head out the door when you might need a computer on the road but don’t feel like lugging around a bigger, more power hungry machine. But that means that your netbook might not have all the documents and other…

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One of the new features HP is offering with the HP Mini 210 and Mini 2102 netbooks is a cloud-based storage system that’s cleverly called “CloudDrive.” Basically, CloudDrive will let you store files on a remote server, but access them on your HP netbook as if they were stored on your local hard drive. The service will be powered by…

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The Wall Street Journal confirms that Dell is set to announce its entry into the netbook market “soon.” Not much news there. I’ve already heard from multiple sources that the announcement will come tomorrow or Friday. But there is one interesting tidbit in the WSJ article: Representatives from Dell and Box.net are saying that Box service will come “pre-installed” on…

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Last week Asus launched an online storage service for Eee PC customers — but only Eee PC 901 and 1000 users can access the site at yostore.net. But Aldrin Cantos at Asus Eee HowTo says that could soon change. Cantos says he’s received word from YoStore support saying that those who have purchased older Eee PC models like the Asus…

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Asus has announced that starting today, customers who purchase an Eee PC will get up to 20GB of online storage space for free. It sounds like the amount of storage space you get depends on the model you’ve purchased. If you have an Eee PC 2G Surf, for example, you get 2GB of online storage, while Eee PC 901 Linux…

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