Google Drive

How to use iCloud like a Dropbox or Google Drive-style cloud store

By Gary Mazo, Monday, Apr 30, 2012 a 2:46 pm

While Apple never meant iCloud to work like Dropbox or Google Drive, if you don't mind polishing up your ninja-skills you can get it to do just that!

There's no shortage of online storage solutions -- Dropbox, Box.net, SugarSync, Microsoft SkyDrive, Apple's soon-to-be end-of-lifed iDisk, and now, Google Drive. Apple's new iCloud isn't meant to be online storage at all; it's designed to abstract away messy concepts like file systems and folders and tuck everything away neatly behind apps. Did you know, however, that you can also (with a little tweaking) upload movies, audio files and pictures to store in iCloud for safe keeping?

Editor's desk: WWDC 2012 and iOS 6, Google Drive, Google and Facebook apps, iCloud guide, and more

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Apr 30, 2012 a 12:40 am

June 11. That's the date we've long suspected but just this week had confirmed. Apple's 2012 World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) is now official hurtling towards us (or us towards it). But it's not the only things going on this week, so let's get to it.

iPhone & iPad Live 291: WWDC 2012, Q2 results, Google Drive

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Apr 26, 2012 a 8:50 pm

Rene and Seth talk WWDC 2012 and iOS 6, Apple's Q2 2012 financial results, free iPhone games, Instapaper vs Pocket vs Readability, and Google Drive. This is iPhone & iPad Live!

Will you use Google Drive? [Poll]

By Georgia, Thursday, Apr 26, 2012 a 9:51 am

At long, long last Google has finally unveiled their cloud storage solution -- Google Drive. So will you use it?

Google increases Gmail to 10GB of free storage -- double what Google Drive gets

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012 a 2:45 pm

To celebrate the introduction of Google's new cloud storage service, Google Drive, they're simultaneously bumping free Gmail storage to 10GB. That's right, Gmail already had one-and-a-half as much free storage as Google Drive, and now it has twice as much!

However, if you also pay for Google Drive, that gets bumped again to 25GB.

Today, we're happy to announce that we're increasing everyone's free storage in Gmail from 7.5 GB to 10 GB (and counting) to celebrate today's launch of Google Drive. The increase will take effect over the next 24 hours. We hope you all enjoy the little bump!

Google announces Google Drive, gives 5GB of free cloud storage to all users

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012 a 1:42 pm

Rumor it and it shall become real -- Google Drive, the long awaited, long anticipated cloud storage service from Google is finally here and it's as big and as cheap as we hoped for. Every Google user gets 5GB for free, and you can buy literally tons more -- up to 16TB (?!) if you have the cash.