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Flickr Now Offers a Terabyte of Storage, New Photo-Rich Interface

By Josh Wolford May 21, 2013

Just one day after Yahoo announced that former Googler Marissa Mayer would be taking the reigns as the new CEO, the internet rose up with its first request: Please make Flickr awesome again. Ever since Yahoo acquired the photo-sharing service …

Dropbox Announces Dropbox For Business With Single Sign-On
By Chris Crum · April 11, 2013
Dropbox announced “Dropbox for Business” on Wednesday. The company says that it’s making a lot of changes to make Dropbox better for companies of all sizes, so it’s rebranding “Dropbox For Teams” as “Dropbox For Business”. One of the upcoming …
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Bump Make Web Version A Lot Better
By Chris Crum · February 14, 2013

Bump announced an update to its web version, which makes it possible for users to bump any files that they could from iOS and Android to and from any computer. “Photos, videos, contacts, files…everything,” Bump says in a blog post. …

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1TB Flash Drive Unveiled At CES 2013
By Chris Crum · January 9, 2013 · 2 Comments

As previously reported, Kingston announced that it will launch a 1TB flash drive this year. It’s called the DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0. A 512GB version is already shipping, and the 1TB version will be available at an unspecified date later …

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Google Launches "Save To Drive" Chrome Extension
By Chris Crum · December 11, 2012 · 1 Comment

Google has launched a new Chrome extension for saving files to Google Drive, appropriately called Save to Drive. Once installed, it places a Drive icon in the upper right-hand corner of your browser, and whenever you’re viewing a file, you …

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Dropbox Surpasses 100 Million Users
By Chris Crum · November 13, 2012

Dropbox announced today that it has surpassed 100 million users, who are saving a billion files every 24 hours. “Since the beginning, Dropbox users have remained at the heart of the company’s mission,” a spokesperson for the company tells WebProNews. …

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Dropbox Gets Google-Like Two-Step Verification
By Chris Crum · August 27, 2012 · 1 Comment

Dropbox announced today that it is launching a new two-step verification feature to make the service more secure. It requires two levels of authentication to log in: a password, and a security code that will either be texted to the …

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Amazon Glacier Launched For Cheap Data Archiving
By Chris Crum · August 21, 2012 · 1 Comment

Amazon has launched a new low-cost storage service called Amazon Glacier. The company says it’s optimized for data that is infrequently accessed, and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable, in order to keep costs low. Glacier comes …

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Dropbox Launches Instant Web Updates
By Chris Crum · August 17, 2012 · 1

Dropbox announced today that users can now make changes to files on their computers or their phones, and the Dropbox site instantly updates to reflect said changes. “You no longer have to hit refresh as you wait for your friend …

IBM To Acquire Solid State Storage Company TMS
By Chris Crum · August 16, 2012

IBM announced today that it plans to buy Texas Memory Systems (TMS), a Houston-based solid state storage company. TMS sells a family of shared rackmount systems and PICIe cards called RamSan, which are designed to help companies improve performance and …

Amazon Gets Cloud Competition From Google, Microsoft
By Chris Richardson · May 17, 2012 · 1

Will Amazon’s popular EC2 cloud soon be facing competition from Google and Microsoft? If reports are true, Amazon’s position as the preferred cloud storage facility for a number of web properties, including WebProNews, could be directly threatened. Thanks to a …

WordPress.com Storage Limits Increase For No Additional Cost
By Chris Crum · January 6, 2012 · 2

WordPress announced that it is giving people with WordPress.com blogs more space for storing media – at no additional cost. The additional space can be used to store photos, documents, audio files etc. Here’s how the plans are changing: 5GB …

HTC and Dropbox Partnership Offers Extra Storage
By Chris Richardson · October 25, 2011

If you have an Android-powered HTC phone, you are eligible for an extra 5 gigabytes worth of offline storage, thanks to the a recently-tweeted-about partnership between the two companies. In fact, all Android HTC phone owners are eligible for the …

iTunes Match Beta Becomes Available
By Chris Crum · August 30, 2011

Apple has sent iTunes developers an email titled “iTunes Match beta now available.” This is a feature of the upcoming iOS 5, announced at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference in June. It lets you sync the music you didn’t purchase …

Apple iCloud Prices and Web Apps Revealed
By Chris Crum · August 2, 2011

iCloud will ship to consumers this Fall. It lets you store content in the cloud and access it on various devices. It works with iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, and even PC, and is free with the upcoming iOS 5 …

What iCloud Is, and What It’s Not
By Abby Johnson · June 24, 2011 · 6

In spite of all the hype around Apple’s iCloud, there has been some confusion about what it is and what it’s not. For starters, the iCloud stores user content on the cloud and pushes it to other devices, such as the iPad. While it’s great for storing and sharing documents and images between devices, or syncing information on your devices together, it is not a back up.

Flickr Now Offers a Terabyte of Storage, New Photo-Rich Interface

Dropbox Announces Dropbox For Business With Single Sign-On

Yahoo Mail Gets Dropbox Integration

‘Google Keep’ Spotted In The Wild

Google Drive Gets File Preview Feature

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