There is a very steep trendline toward near-zero pricing for file sync-and-share storage. Basically, giving away unlimited storage is now table stakes in the industry, as I said in June (see The price… Read more »
Google is pushing hard to get into the enterprise. Yesterday, Google announced at the I/O conference a new version of Google Drive, the company’s file sync-and-share application. The new version — called… Read more »
I was working on a briefing for a client yesterday, and one trend I outlined was the file sync-and-share storage war, where I suggested that we are on a trend toward functionally… Read more »
Dropbox continues its acquisition spree, this week pulling in MobileSpan, a provider of mobile apps for secure editing of Office documents behind corporate firewalls. This is clearly in line with Dropbox’s… Read more »
Drew Houston, the founder of Dropbox, told the story last fall at Dreamforce about Steve Jobs’ effort to acquire Dropbox, and how Job was committed to ‘kill’ the company with iCloud. The… Read more »
The battle of the customer announcements has commenced. Following soon on the heels of Box’s disclosure that GE had selected that file sync-and-share solution over other alternatives (see Is the tide turning… Read more »
Two announcements made last week by Box, the file sync-and-share company, suggest that the company’s recent string of bad luck may be turning. First, and most importantly, Aaron Levie announced on… Read more »
Windows is dropping the price of Windows 8.1 by 70% for tablet and PC makers, under renewed pressure from Google’s Chromebooks, Bloomberg reports. I wrote about Google’s new deal with VMware to… Read more »
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have built a system for generating personalized health assessments that uses techniques common in web recommendation engines. The aptly named Collaborative Assessment and Recommendation… Read more »
A fairer comparison would be the same services offered by Google/Android, or other devices that offer synchronization and storage services built into the platform. Perhaps other storage services that are bound… Read more »