Google online storage claims

Google is to launch an online storage service within the next few months, a newspaper in the US has reported. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is readying a service that will let you store data on its servers that can be accessed via different computers or mobile devices. Rumours that Google planned to offer online storage to web users first emerged back in March 2006 after a blogger found notes about a project in a slide presentation published on Google's site which said it planned to become the repository for "100%" of all consumer data with a service named GDrive. The notes read: "With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc)." Google's free webmail service GoogleMail already offers over 2,600 megabytes of storage for free. According to the Journal, the new storage service could include some free storage, with additional storage available for a fee. Research recently revealed that around a quarter of us never back up even the most valuable files on our PCs. Despite two-thirds of people in the UK having lost files after a hard drive failure or malware attack, 24 per cent of us never back up our data, the research carried out by Carbonite, a company that offers online storage, revealed. Read Web User's product reviews of online storage and back-up services. The Wall Street Journal

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