Google is looking to both revolutionize and standardize online data storage with a new service that will allow users to store documents and media, and access it remotely from other machines anywhere in the world. However, Google could be directly in the sights of large media corporations for allowing users to share their media through speedy remote data storage access.

No word yet as to a debut date; however, the new service will allow users a certain amount of free data storage and will offer larger storage capacities for a fee, and is designed around remote access from machines other than the owner’s main computer, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Specifics of implementation have not been confirmed by Google, however one representative dropped a tantalizing innuendo that the ability to access documents and media is important to utilizing web applications in consumers’ day to day lives.

Read more: blorge.com 

Labels: data, Gdrive, storage

Mine's bigger than yours

MICROSOFT ANNOUNCED a cunning plan to increase the storage limit on its Hotmail accounts from 2GB to 5GB. The move comes shortly after Google began offering extra storage on its Gmail accounts, at a price.

Google currently offers 2888MB of storage space for free. The figure on a Gmail account used to be constantly increasing and Google encouraged users never to delete email.

Read more: theinquirer.net 

Labels: Gmail, mail, microsoft, storage

Company set to offer extra hosting space

Google has launched a new service that will allow users to expand their Picasa and Gmail storage limits.

Currently, the two free services offer 1GB and 2.8GB of storage space respectively.

Users who run out of storage space will now be able to purchase additional space from Google. The extra space will start at $20 for 6GB and sell as a yearly subscription service.

Read more: vnunet.com 

Labels: Gmail, picasa, storage

First INQpressions OK but has quirks to be ironed out

SEARCH GIANT Google has begun promoting its paid storage space to users of its webmail service, GMail, starting at $20/year for six gigabytes.

GMail was introduced with the premise that you will never have to delete mail, but now Google has started peddling its "extended storage" plans to heavy users like this scribbler, in other words "e-mail hoarders". But I don't blame Google as, for some of us, our GMail inboxes are big giant "archives in the sky". OK, "cloud" as Voles put it.

Read more: theinquirer.net 

Labels: Gmail, mail, storage