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  • Carbonite is a 2011 “Best Places to Work” Winner!

    Nice to know that Carbonite treats their employees well! No one wants to support a company that treats their employees poorly. Congratulations to Carbonite for being named one of the Best Places to Work in Massachusetts.   The complete news release is included below for your information. Want to know more about Carbonite online backup?…

  • Google Storage Now Available to all Developers

    Google announced at Google I/O that Google storage is now available to all developers. Previously this was only available on an invite only basis. For the average consumer this might not mean much, but this service is similar to Amazon S3 and with it being open to all developers we could soon see third party…

  • MiMedia Launches Large Free Cloud Backup & Access Plan: Stream 7 GB of Your Music, Photos, Videos and Other Files Anytime, Anywhere

    Looks like MiMedia has made a few changes to their storage plans. I will be updating the review as soon as I get a chance later today. For now the most important part of the press release that most people will want to know is the you can get 7gb of free storage from MiMedia…

  • Always Be Prepared

    Lisa Tortorello has great post about how Carbonite helped to save the day for her. Often this is not the kind of story I hear or read about so it is nice to read about someone having a computer crash and not losing all of their files.   I just wished all the people and…

  • Carbonite Selected as 2011 CODiE Awards Finalist

    Carbonite has been selected as a finalist in the 2011 CODiE Awards. While this might not mean much to many it is a great honor for those in the software industry. In 2010 Mozy won in the Best Storage Software Solution category.   The complete news release is included below for your information. Want to…

  • Livedrive Price Increase

    Looks like 2011 is turning out to the be the year of price increases for online backup services. First was Mozy, then Carbonite and now it looks like Livedrive will be increasing their prices as well. No word on what the new prices will be but this would be a good time to sign up…

  • SugarSync Android App Updated

    SugarSync recently updated their Android app and I have to tell you it is what I hoped Dropbox for Android would have been like. The new SugarSync app will automatically sync your photos from your Android device to your SugarSync account. Take a photo on with your Android phone and it will automatically be synced…

  • Save 50% on IDrive!

    IDrive has a fantastic limited time offer available to anyone with a .edu email address. You can save 50% off of either the IDrive Personal Plan or Family Plans simply by having a valid .edu email address.   This means that an IDrive Personal account that can store up to 150GBs from one PC or…

  • Carbonite Offer Code

    If you were thinking of signing up for Carbonite recently you have probably discovered that they have just recently raised their prices 7%. Not a huge increase but it did take their yearly price from $54.95 to $59.00. Well I have a special offer for you! It is possible to still sign up for Carbonite…

  • MiMedia Upgrades With New Capabilities to Search, Sort and Access Digital Media

    MiMedia released some new features for their online backup and media streaming service today. They improved their searching of your files, how they are sorted, their web upload to handle files as large as 2gb and a few features to improve video playback and album art. Great enhancements to their service I am sure.  …

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