It looks like those sporting an LG branded Android smartphone have become the latest to receive 50GB of free Box.net storage. Yup, LG and Box.net have partnered up and those carrying an LG Android smartphone can now step forward and claim their free cloud-based storage. The terms of the offer seem rather simple. Download the more »

The folks over at Pogoplug have officially unveiled their latest offering, and nicely done, this time they have ditched the hardware in favor of a cloud-based storage solution that will allow users to access their files from any web connected computer as well as select mobile devices. The new offering is called Pogoplug Cloud and more »

Box has a very tempting promotion for iOS users. Starting on Friday, Box will give users of its iOS app a whopping 50GB of free cloud storage. Once you take advantage of the promotion, your 50GB of space will stick with you no matter what device you’re using Box on. Box is offering this promotion for 50 days, so you have plenty of time to take advantage of this offer.

Canonical is beefing up the capabilities of it’s Ubuntu One service. Just after signing up it’s 1 millionth user this past May Ubuntu One Basic is being upgraded. The free version of the service is now called Ubuntu One Free, and has more storage capacity than before. Ubuntu One Free will now offer users 5GB more »

For those who need to collaborate on documents, or who just need their documents in the cloud, Google Docs is great. There’s even an option to upload files of any kind to the service to use it as a sort of Dropbox alternative. Today, that feature was quietly made a bit better. Up until today, more »

In case you’re not aware, before Apple even thought of its iCloud service, Microsoft has been offering a similar service called SkyDrive. Although this is probably one of the most underrated Microsoft service, still there are significant SkyDrive users which accumulated through the years. And if you’re one of these SkyDrive users, you’ll be glad more »

Dropbox had a bit of an issue on June 19. The cloud storage service updated its service’s code on that day which ultimately left every account open to intrusion for around four hours. Dropbox says that the code was applied at 1:54pm, but the bug wasn’t identified until 5:41pm. To its credit, Dropbox fixed everything by 5:46, but not before some accounts were potentially compromised.

SugarSync, the cloud storage service that we’ve reported on before, is currently rolling out a new feature called Mobile Device Management. This feature will allow SugarSync users to to control the content that is pushed to their various devices that also use SugarSync.

The iPhone has a couple of very popular photo editing and sharing applications that you can’t find anywhere else. Take, Instagram and 100 Cameras in 1 for example. If you don’t have an iPhone or 4th generation iPod Touch, these apps can become restrictive. You can still utilize these apps with an older iPod model, but you have to find a way to import photos onto your older iPod Touch to get the most out of them. It’s a shame there aren’t Android versions for either of these apps yet, but you can make the importing process faster by using the cloud.

It looks like that Lady GaGa promotion was a huge success for Amazon, which is strange to say when you consider it cost them nearly $3.2 million dollars. The numbers are coming by way of Billboard, who have it figured like this; Here’s the math: For every unit it sells at 99 cents, Amazon will more »