Apple doesn’t let developer submit apps to the App Store if they effectively include their own app store… and that means game streaming services like Stadia, Luna, GeForce Now, and Xbox Cloud Gaming need not apply. But there’s an alternate path to streaming games on iPhones and iPads: the web browser. Amazon’s Luna game streaming […]
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Google Photos is pulling plug on free unlimited photo storage
One of the best reasons to use Google Photos is that Google can automatically back up all of the photos you take with your smartphone for free. Or at least that used to be one of the best reasons to use Google Photos. Starting June 1, 2021 Google is removing that feature – you’ll still be […]
How to use an SD card with Amazon’s Fire tablets
Every tablet Amazon Fire tablet released in the past few years has featured a microSD card slot, which is a nice thing to have if you’re using a tablet that may have as little as 8GB of built-in storage. You can pick up just about any Class 10 or UHS microSD card to add up […]
Amazon Kindle updates: new colors and more storage (maybe)
This month Amazon added two new color options for the Kindle Paperwhite: in addition to buying the company’s 6 inch eReader with a high-resolution display in black or blue, you can now get sage or plum color options. But that might not be the only change in the Kindle lineup. Some customers who purchase the […]
Sabrent introduces the first 8TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
PC accessory and component maker Sabrent has just unveiled the first M.2 SSD capable of holding up to 8TB of data. The upcoming Sabrent Rocket Q 8TB drive is a PCIe NVMe SSD designed to fit inside of laptops and other devices with M.2 2280 slots. There’s no word on the price or release date […]
Daily Deals (3-31-2020)
Satellite radio service SiriusXM announced today that it will let people in North america stream its stations over the internet for free through May 15th. The company is just one of many to offer some sort of free content to folks who are dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. You can find dozens of other free […]
Samsung’s UFS 3.1 storage brings SSD speeds to smartphones
Samsung has begun mass production of a new embedded storage memory solution that will bring the kind of read/write speeds I expect from high-end laptops to… high-end smartphones. The new Samsung 512GB eUFS 3.1 offers sequential read speeds up to 2,100 MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 1,200 MB/s. While the top sequential read speeds […]
HAMR technology could lead to 80TB hard drives (with 20TB HDDs coming this year)
SSDs may be faster and more durable than hard drives with spinning platters. But HDDs still have a few things going for them — they’re cheaper on a cost-per-gigabyte basis and the highest-capacity hard drives can store way more data than an SSD. And it looks like that’s going to remain the case for a […]
UFS 3.1 promises speedier smartphone storage
JEDEC, tht organization responsible for setting the standards for the storage used in most smartphones, has released a new Universal Flash Storage 3.1 specification. In a nutshell, UFS 3.1 should bring faster performance to smartphones and removable storage cards, while also reducing power consumption. Among other things, that’s because the UFS 3.1 standard includes: Write […]
Kobol Helios64 open source NAS coming in March (network attached storage)
Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices like those offered by Synology and QNAP are basically specialized computers that are designed to let you do things like back up your data or set up a home server. But for the most part they run proprietary software. But Kobo’s upcoming Helios64 is designed to be a more open […]
Microsoft lets Office 365 users buy more OneDrive storage, protect some files in a “Personal Vault”
3 Comments on Microsoft lets Office 365 users buy more OneDrive storage, protect some files in a “Personal Vault”As cloud storage solutions go, Microsoft’s OneDrive isn’t a bad deal — you get 15GB of storage for free, or you can pay $2 per month you for 50GB. And if you sign up for an Office 365 subscription you get 1TB of online storage for as little as $70 per year… not to mention […]
SanDisk’s 1TB microSD card is available now (for $450)
As promised a few months ago, the first microSD cards capable of storing up to 1TB of data are here. If you’ve got $450 burning a hole in your wallet, now you can spend it on a 1TB SanDisk Extreme microSDXC card. For that price you get not only one of the highest capacity cards […]