Google has announced that it’s updating its Google Drive application for Mac and PC and merging it with the Google Photos desktop uploader tool. The new app is called Backup and Sync from Google, and it should be available starting June 28th. One of the biggest changes? It’ll let you choose any set of folders […]
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Acer Liquid Jade 2 Android smartphones has 1TB of storage (but not really)
If Acer’s latest flagship Android smartphone looks familiar, that’s because the Acer Liquid Jade 2 seems to be an Android version of the previously announced Liquid Jade Primo phone that ships with Windows 10. The specs and design for the two phones are pretty much the same. But there is one key difference aside from […]
Microsoft OneDrive users can opt-in to keep their free 15GB of storage space
About a month after Microsoft announced plans to drop the amount of free cloud storage it offered users of its OneDrive service, the company is throwing a lifeline to existing users. Starting early next year anyone that signs up for OneDrive will only get 5GB of free storage instead of the 15GB Microsoft currently offers. […]
Microsoft is dropping OneDrive free storage to 5GB, killing Office 365 unlimited storage
Cloud storage doesn’t grow on trees (or clouds)… although you’d be mistaken for thinking it was free. In recent years companies including Microsoft, Google, Dropbox, and Box have offered some amount of free online storage as a way to get people hooked on the service so that users of the free service will consider becoming paying […]
Nextbit Robin smartphone has lots of (cloud) storage
Tired of running out of storage space on your smartphone? There’s a new phone that could offer practically unlimited storage… kind of. Nextbit is a startup founded by former Google and HTC employees, and the company’s first smartphone is called the Robin. It has 32GB of built-in storage, but what really makes the phone special is […]
Amazon Cloud Drive no longer offers 5GB of free storage
This week Amazon introduced two new ways to use Amazon Cloud Drive, the company’s online storage service. Pay $60 per year and you get unlimited online storage for all of your files. Or pay $12 per year and you can upload as many photos as you like as well as 5GB of non-photo files. But what […]
Amazon Cloud Drive now offers unlimited storage for $60 per year (or just photos for $12)
Amazon’s Cloud Drive is an online storage locker service that lets anyone upload up to 5GB of files for free. Have an Amazon Prime membership? Last year Amazon launched unlimited photo storage for Prime members. Want cheap storage, but don’t want to pay $99 per year for a Prime subscription? Now there are two more options: […]
Upload your music to OneDrive, play it with Xbox Music apps
Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage service lets you store just about any type of file online where you can access it on any device with a OneDrive app or a web browser. But now you can also use OneDrive as a cloud music server. Upload your songs and you can stream them to any device with […]
Report: Google Drive app will offer cloud photo backup
Want to automatically backup all of the photos you snap with your smartphone camera to the cloud? There are a few ways to do that. Apple has iCloud, and Dropbox, Amazon, and Google all offer apps for Android an iOS that will backup your photos. But Google’s solution is a bit odd… because it requires you to […]
Amazon launches Cloud Drive API for third-party app developers
Amazon Cloud Drive provides users with online storage for photos, music, and other files. Anyone can get 5GB of cloud storage for free and Amazon recently began offering unlimited photo storage as part of Amazon Prime Photos. Now Amazon is offering developers a way to tap into its cloud storage with Cloud Drive API. This […]