Besides the 16 GB of local storage on the SSD, you also now get 100 GB of Google storage, too.
Like Google storage, we want that to be generally available.
First, the C7 Chromebook has 320GB of hard drive storage, but customers are extended a generous 100GB of Google Drive storage for two years after purchase.
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It also released a Chrome app for its Google Keep note-taking service that syncs notes directly with its Google Drive storage service.
Factor in the Google Now integration and 100GB of free Google Drive storage for two years and this latest Chromebook is a winner.
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Google made the first move cutting prices of its standard Google Cloud Storage by 20% and then followed it up with another 10% cut after Amazon followed up by reducing the prices of its S3 cloud storage services by about 25%.
Acer Chromebook customers are offered up to 100GB of free Google Drive storage for the first two years after purchase, so files, documents, photos and more are stored safely in the cloud even if the Acer C7 is lost, damaged or stolen.
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Google is offering 100GB of storage on Google Drive at no cost for two years.
As you'd expect, Keep is integrated with Google Drive, the cloud storage service Google wants anyone who uses anything it makes to use.
Google has launched a cloud-based storage service called Google Drive that competes with Dropbox, Sugarsync and other cloud storage systems to offer both free and paid storage that synchronizes with PCs and Macs.
The Chromebook Pixel, which boots up in a matter of a few seconds, has 32 gigabytes of storage on the Wi-Fi-only device (the LTE model has 64 gigabytes) and comes with one terabyte of storage space in Google Drive online file-storage program.
The company has applications on the Google and Apple storage to access this device from a phone or tablet.
Similarly, Google quietly doubled the storage space for the Nexus 7 without adjusting the price.
Google has promoted free storage for each user of the equivalent of 500, 000 pages of email among Gmail's benefits.
Add in 100GB of cloud storage on Google Drive, and the advantages begin to outweigh those of PCs and even iPads.
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With the pre-installed aVia media player app on NeoTV PRIME, you can play, manage and share your videos, music, and photos from any of your digital storage and Google Android devices to your big screen TV.
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Google Mail was offering more storage and larger attachment support than most paid services at that time.
After years of leaks, murmurs, hubbub and other familiar synonyms, Google's mythical cloud storage platform is now official... sort of.
Google has its own cloud storage so you can back up your information, it is not compatible sync with your other Apple devices.
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With the advent of video communication apps like Skype, cloud storage options like Google Drive and Dropbox, time management programs like Basecamp and TimeFox, and a variety of other digital business solutions, making the home or local cafe your office is easier than ever.
For instance, if in the West Evernote's cloud storage has Dropbox, Google Drive and Apple's iCloud among its rivals, in China, there is also Baidu's Wangpan.
That kind of remote storage is being viewed as the future of computing by companies like Apple, Google and Amazon, all of whom offer cloud-storage features.
Google plans to unveil a new music storage and streaming service at its annual developers conference today.
Amazon S3 and Simple DB and Google App Engine all charge based on storage, bandwidth, and CPU time.
Rivals were dropping prices, and rumors began to swirl that Google and Apple would soon offer cloud storage for free.
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And you could argue that Google Drive offers the same functionality and storage space, albeit tied tightly to their document editing software.
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Users of Google Drive also receive 100GB of additional cloud storage after purchasing and activating the C7.
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It also integrated with Google Docs, Box, and other cloud storage providers, though it says Dropbox is popular with users.
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