The economy's rough. So the price you want to store is files is free, right? Of course that's the right price in this environment. Anything else would be too much. Well, free it is. At least for storing your personal files. Now mind you, this means electronic files. Warning: don't haul your cardboar...

startups, Software, IT Gregory T. Huang wrote: It could be the most exciting cloud-computing startup you’ve never heard of. It’s two guys in a room overlooking Lake Union, in a hard-to-spot building next to the Fremont Bridge. And it uses Amazon Web Services and other people’s comp...

A few months ago, I was interested in offsite backup, and thought I’d give Mozy a try. Their Home Backup plan intrigued me. It was only $4.95, and was billed as unlimited. Could it actually work as advertised? Short answer is no, not by a long shot. Sure, it only costs $4.95/month. That much i...

Here are a few questions I’ve received recently from people like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability. Does the new Palm Pre smart phone use the traditional Palm operating system and the many programs that have been written for it? Palm’s P...

Filed under: Software, Productivity, Internet Tools, Security Update 3: Backblaze is looking into why some users were receiving errors when trying to install the application. They've temporarily shut-down the beta page to investigate. The first 300 users to sign-up will still receive invites. Go ahe...

I have been playing around with Drop.io quite a bit recently and it got me thinking that my online bank account could really serve as my “online vault.” At least perceptually I consider the data held within to be my best protected stuff on the web. Whether true or not, I trust my bank ac...

I always knew that I should back up my computer, but I wasn't really sure HOW to back up my computer or even what was the best way to back up my computer. Back in January, I wrote about how I woke up one morning to the blue screen of death. My computer had died and my tech guy said there was no way ...

What do my sister-in-law, my mother-in-law, my colleague Steve, my old editor John and my friend Robert have in common? All saw their computer's hard drive crash. And none had recently backed up their data....

What do my sister-in-law, my mother-in-law, my colleague Steve, my old editor John and my friend Robert have in common? All saw their computer's hard drive crash. And none had recently backed up their data....

What do my sister-in-law, my mother-in-law, my colleague Steve, my old editor John and my friend Robert have in common? All saw their computer's hard drive crash. And none had recently backed up their data....