AOL: 5 gbytes free online storage
Posted on | August 3, 2006 | 1 Comment
downloadsquad (an AOL-property) broke the news, that AOL will offer 5 gbytes of free online storage to anyone in hold of an AOL- or AIM-user-account starting september. the new service will utilize technology from xdrive, the storage-company AOL aquired about a year ago (xdrive currently offers 5gybte for USD 10,- a month). the featurelist according to downloadsquad and Jason Calacanis’ blog sounds great:
- 5 gybte storage, no costs for traffic (= unlimited)
- stores any type of file (not limited to images, audio etc.)
- drag-and-drop interface (I suppose that’s a desktop-app?)
- web-interface
- permission-based file and folder sharing
- online collaboration for shared files
- scheduled automatic backups (again, I guess that involves a desktop-app)
by announcing free xdrive-services, AOL most definitely has outperformed Google in the fields of online-storage – their rumoured service ‘GDrive’ isn’t even yet confirmed to exist.
in less joyful news, AOL reported a 25% layoff of their global workforce by the end of 2006.
update: the layoff-report link was obviously wrong – the correct URL is http://news.com.com/…
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