By Adriana Lee |
Digital hoarders take note: Yesterday, Seagate announced that it’s now shipping a brand-new, high-performance 4TB Desktop HDD. And, says the company, this version offers “the lowest cost per gigabyte in the industry.” In laymen’s terms, the capacity is enough to store more than 1,000,000 songs,…
By Sean P. Aune |
MediaFire has finally released an app for Android, so now you can also get in on that sweet, sweet offer of 50GB of free storage. Cloud storage services just seem to be handing out more and more free storage every time you turn around. Did…
By Adriana Lee |
Sometimes you see an item, and it takes some romancing to get you to see its charms. Maybe a song (press event), a dance (specs) and perhaps a few dates (or trial period). Other times, it’s totally love at first sight. This, friends, is one…
By Maximum PC |
You can never have too much capacity, and if you feel the same way, you’ll be geeked to find out that Western Digital is now shipping its high performance WD Black desktop hard drive line in capacities up to 4TB. The new 4TB model (WD4001FAEX) offers twice…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook is starting to roll out a new photo-syncing option that automatically saves a copy of every image snapped on an iOS device to a folder on Facebook. The folder is private so, in many ways, the service works like Microsoft’s SkyDrive photo option on…
By Todd Haselton |
AT&T on Thursday officially announced and launched its new free cloud storage solution called AT&T Locker. The carrier initially launched the service for Android back in September, but it’s now available for iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It’s capable of…
By Brandon Russell |
Microsoft’s suite of pre-installed apps and software, including Windows RT and Office RT, will take up 12GB of the Surface’s 32GB of space. That leaves only 20 gigs — still a pretty healthy amount, to be fair — for a user’s apps, media, and other…
By Killian Bell |
Back in September, Apple began notifying former MobileMe customers that the extra 20GB of iCloud storage that they received for free just for transferring to its new service was set to end on September 30. The Cupertino company stated that users must upgrade their plan…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple is cutting former MobileMe customers off from that sweet extra storage deal, sending out emails to confirm the news. As a transitional compromise to iCloud, the Cupertino company divvied out 20GB of storage to each MobileMe user on the house, warning that the complimentary…
By Maximum PC |
If you ever want to experience true elation, try swapping out a fragmented hard disk drive (HDD) that’s bogging down performance from an otherwise well equipped PC for a performance oriented solid state drive (SSD). The difference can be night and day, depending on how…
By Killian Bell |
If you’re getting by with an Xbox 360 Arcade or Core system with just 4GB of internal storage, now is the time to consider investing in a new hard drive if you’re hoping to enjoy Halo 4′s multiplayer game modes later this year. Microsoft has confirmed…
By Maximum PC |
RunCore’s latest solid state drive offering is an oxymoron in the tech world, or perhaps the company was being ironic when naming its new SSD line ‘InVincible’ when ‘Impenetrable’ might have been a better choice. Naming scheme aside, the neat thing about RunCore’s InVincible line…
By Killian Bell |
MobileMe customers who upgrade to iCloud are being handed a free 20GB storage boost from Apple as part of the Cupertino company’s push for its new cloud service. The offer was set to last until June 30 — the date MobileMe meets its death —…
By Killian Bell |
Earlier today, a source “familiar with the matter” claimed Google Drive will make its debut today, April 24, offering each and every user 5GB of free cloud-based storage. Google has now strengthened that claim by increasing Google Docs storage from 1GB to 5GB as standard.…
By Killian Bell |
Following weeks of speculation, Google Drive is expected to make its debut this week, bringing with it 5GB of free storage for each and every user. According to a Reuters’ ”source familiar with the matter,” the announcement could come as early as today, April 24. Furthermore,…
By Todd Haselton |
Gmail is down for thousands, if not millions, of users and many are expressing their frustrations on Twitter. We’ve confirmed that the service is indeed down for several members of our staff, although several of us are still working along with nary an issue. It’s…
By Maximum PC |
What do you do when you need to backup several thousand floppy disks from yesteryear? If you’re a true geek, you build a machine to automate the entire process, which not only demands mad respect, but also will save you the fatigue and frustration of…
By Sage Lane |
I am returning my new iPad. It’s not that I don’t like it. I’ve always been a pixel-density devotee, and the new display really does it for me. It’s just that after less than a week, I have come to realize that it doesn’t have…
By Killian Bell |
In a bid to compete with cloud storage services like Dropbox and iCloud, Microsoft has been making some huge improvements to SkyDrive in recent months, with integration into the Windows Phone operating system, support for HTML5 video, and mobile apps for iOS and Windows Phone.…
By Killian Bell |
If you’ve been holding out for the 32GB Galaxy Nexus here in Europe because the 16GB device simply isn’t enough for you, then you’re going to be a little disappointed with Samsung’s latest move. The Korean company has decided to terminate the 32GB GSM model.…
By Noah Kravitz |
Pogoplug today launched a revamped version of their personal cloud hardware, the Series 4, which the company has positioned as an extension to the recently unveiled Pogoplug Cloud service. Continuing in the “big new direction” they’ve embarked on over the past few weeks, Pogoplug has…
By Mike Perlman |
In the tech world, you can forget everything you know about the scientific properties of a cumulus or cirrus formation, for here, cloud means “remote data storage.” This means you can store files in space, or on remote servers that will sync all of your…
By Emily Price |
Sandisk has unveiled a new 64GB microSDXC card to be used in tablets and mobile phones. The card can double the storage capacity of many mobile phones and tablets on the market, and offers “up to 30MB/sec4 transfer speeds and offers the Class 6 performance…
By Emily Price |
Researchers at IBM‘s Alman researcher lab in California are reportedly at work on what, when completed, will be the world’s largest hard drive. The drive, boasting a massive 120 petabytes (120 million GB spread out on 200,000 hard drives) will be capable of holding 24…
