Canonical has announced that it’s going to axe its Dropbox competitor Ubuntu One and, as a result, i

Canonical has announced that it’s going to axe its Dropbox competitor Ubuntu One and, as a result, its streaming music service. Subscribers can expect a refund.

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Microsoft promises to never email snoop again

Microsoft won’t go snooping through users’ private content in Outlook, OneDrive, or other services, even if it believes it might find evidence that secrets stolen from the firm are there, … Continue reading

Supercharge Google Drive With These Clever Third-Party Apps

Supercharge Google Drive With These Clever Third-Party Apps

Thanks to built-in integration with literally hundreds of third-party apps, Google Drive not only stores all your files in the cloud, it also brings powerful, PC-like capabilities straight to your browser.

    



SlashGear 101: Microsoft OneNote

There’s no confusing Microsoft’s play to be your digital companion: first the OneDrive push, and now a play to make OneNote the de-facto service for digital notetaking. Made free across … Continue reading

Google Drive subscriptions slashed

Google has slashed the price of Google Drive storage, with some tiers now a fifth of the price they were before, as the company pushes its cross-service cloud. While 15GB … Continue reading

OnLive CloudLift to stream Steam games from anywhere

In the past, OnLive offered gamers the ability to play high-powered games over the internet in a web browser and through their high-powered mobile app. This week they’ve announced a … Continue reading

Nokia Asha 230 and Nokia 220 push OneDrive to next billion

Nokia keeps hacking away at the so-called next billion mobile users, and now the Finnish company wants to get them hooked up to the cloud with the new Asha 230 … Continue reading

OneDrive gives extra 100GB to first 100,000 users post-rebrand

Microsoft is giving OneDrive early adopters a 100GB bonus for checking out the newly-renamed cloud storage service, after having rebranded globally earlier today. The promotion, which is offered to the … Continue reading

Dropbox available again in China after years-long block

For reasons never made clear, Dropbox was given the banhammer by the Chinese government a few years ago, blocking users in the country from accessing the cloud-storage service. Now, again … Continue reading

Meet Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s anti-Ballmer

Satya Nadella wears hoodies. He understands the rules of cricket. More importantly, the newly-named Microsoft CEO understands hardware, something Steve Ballmer has struggled to convince the company, its board and … Continue reading