Online storage is becoming a commodity offering. So you'd think that it'd be simple to buy and use, like an external hard disk. Not so much. Storage companies are jockeying for position in this market ...

The importance of backing up your files seems obvious, but choosing how gets complicated fast. The built-in Windows backup option is painfully basic, while decent software costs serious money.

Here's how to automatically or manually back up your data, and then restore it on your Mac using Apple's Time Machine feature. Trying to figure out how to send a large file to someone? Gmail and Yahoo ...

To reduce confusion, Google, in an official blog, announced it is combining Google Drive File Stream and Google Backup and Sync desktop apps with ‘Google Drive for Desktop’. The Google Drive for ...

Hopefully most our readers here have a good backup routine in place. After learning the lesson the hard way, I now I use an obsessive combination of a cloud-based system (I use SpiderOak, which we ...

Google has announced that it intends to unify its Google Drive solutions for keeping files in sync on users' desktops. Currently there are two desktop sync solutions for using Google Drive – Drive ...

Popular peer-to-peer service BitTorrent has launched BitTorrent Sync for iOS, an app that allows users to sync and backup an unlimited number of files across their devices as well as the ability to ...

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Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...