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Google will soon launch a fully-featured cloud storage service called Google Drive, reports Amir Efrati at the Wall Street Journal. Drive would compete directly with other consumer-friendly cloud services, like DropBox, Box, and SugarSync, among others, and will allegedly be priced below that of other similar services. Like DropBox and others, Drive will have its own dedicated apps for both PC and mobile devices, Efrati's sources say.… Read More

It's become increasingly clear that users who lost files due to the US government's seizure of Megaupload will, most likely, never get their files back. First of all, Megaupload's hosting company, Carpathia Hosting, will allegedly begin deleting files on Thursday due to non-payment by Megaupload. Second — and here's the stickler — Megaupload never guaranteed that files stored on its servers would remain accessible to… Read More

File-sharing giant Megaupload is dead, following an international criminal sting spearheaded by the US Department of Justice. Prior to its closure, the site boasted 50 million users a day, and accounted for four percent of all Internet traffic, according to the DoJ. That means a lot of you out there are looking for a new way to  store and share your files. Here, a quick list of 14 sites that will fill the gaping hole in your life left by… Read More

Heads up, iPhone users: If iCloud, Dropbox, Box, Amazon, or any of the other cloud storage services currently available to you just aren't cutting it, there's a new option in town: Microsoft SkyDrive. Long available on Windows desktop, Windows Phone and through the Web, SkyDrive offers the most free space out of any of the major cloud storage services — a full 25GB. Dropbox, by comparison, only offers two gigabytes. Box offers five… Read More

The dawn of the cloud computing era is upon us. Each day a new service arrives that moves to decentralize our data. This new way allows us to live unencumbered by the constraints of internal data storage. With these services, never again will you have to say, “Oh, I forgot that on my home computer.” Instead, your most important files, like pictures, videos and music, will be accessible from anywhere. But for the uninitiated user,… Read More

Move over, MacBook Air. Although Dell already ripped up Apple's envelope with the thinner-than-Air Adamo, Sony has set its own sights on the King of Thin, and the resulting Vaio X Series should put both imitator and imitated to shame. Sony teased the Vaio X at this year's IFA conference in Berlin, which essentially functions as the European version of CES. With no spec sheet or press release to be found, all we know are the bare… Read More

Device makers have been pondering whether Google's Android platform will migrate from smartphones to other types of consumer electronic devices…and the the answer appears to be "yes." In what may be the first non-phone device to sport Android, Motorola has unveiled plans to convert its au Box set-top box (available via KDDI in Japan) from its own VIP1830 platform to Android. The au Box is designed to service as… Read More

Amazon.com subsidiary the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Without a Box, a Los Angeles-based company that has developed exclusive online tools designed to connect independent filmmakers to film festivals in 20 countries. Without a Box will continue to run as an independent operation; financial terms of the acquisition were not revealed. “Our mission has always been to provide film lovers… Read More

Ever sat down somewhere with your Wi-Fi capable device, been greeted with a small swarm of publicly-accessible networks, and wondered which you should choose to access the Internet? Well, why not use all of them? Mark Hoekstra and his colleague Boris at Geek Technique have come up with a not-quite-tiny box dubbed the Slurpr which can attach to as many as six Wi-Fi networks and offer the combined bandwidth as a single broadband connection.… Read More

Hey! Stop spending all your money on Christmas presents and don't buy that PS3 or Wii on eBay just yet. In a recent post on Velocity Micro's blog, Chris Morley, Director of Product Development, outlines what he wants for Christmas: I want the ultimate media center. I want something with enough muscle to power multiple streams of high definition video—both in playback and recording—along with streaming to multiple… Read More

“The Creation Box, going on sale in Japan this month with no plans to offer it overseas, looks like a black box with a handheld remote control. It uses technology that adjusts TV signals so that images' outlines and textures look sharper and clearer, even on larger screens.” The Creation box is priced at $4800 and you will still need a TV and a seperate tuner. Read more at Cnn.com

Quote from the review: “Let's be honest here, ways to capture video onto a PC are a dime a dozen now. Watching TV on your box is old hat, and even PVR is a fairly easy thing to figure out, if you take the time. It's not rocket science, and you don't have to spend a lot of money doing it. All you need is a TV Tuner card, or breakout box, a decent enough system and some software to make it all happen. If you have… Read More

Arriving at retail nationwide on Oct. 17, Juice Box, a personal media player from Mattel, Inc., will feature category exclusive, full-color video content from some of today's hottest music, television and action sports personalities; play MP3 music files; and enable viewing of digital photos. Juice Box is the first personal media player designed to meet the lifestyle and entertainment interests of today's tweens. One of the… Read More

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Quote from the review: “Today we will be reviewing the largest box to hit my doorstep. To elaborate a bit more, inside the box were the newest offering from Realworld Technology and provided by Super Good Deal, a set of Sicuro 5.1 Gaming Speakers. These speakers are like no other I have ever seen, read on to find out exactly why!” Read the full review