Rumors of Google launching a cloud storage service known as "GDrive" have been coming and going for years, with no actual product ever making its way to consumers. But the Wall Street... Read more

Rumors of Google launching a cloud storage service known as “GDrive” have been coming and going for years, with no actual product ever making its way to consumers. But the Wall Street Journal says Google is, finally, perhaps only weeks away from launching the service, now simply called “Drive.”

Drive could have been pretty revolutionary, especially if it had launched back in 2007 when the Journal also said it was ready to be unveiled within a few months. Now, Google will have to compete against Dropbox and other well-established storage services. Still, Google could make an impact simply by redirecting its existing users to the new service, and undercutting the competition in price.

Google Docs already offers free storage for any type of file, with each user given up to 1GB of free space, compared to 2GB from Dropbox. But Google Docs users can purchase an extra 20GB of storage for a mere $5 a year, or 80GB for $20 a year, considerably cheaper than Dropbox rates of $9.99 per month for 50GB and $19.99 per month for 100GB. Presumably, Google Drive would be far more convenient to use than Google Docs storage, but an article in ExtremeTech speculates that Google will use similar pricing in Drive to attract users.

But given that the actual service’s existence has been rumored for years without coming to fruition, it’s still all speculation until Google confirms it.

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A computer Trojan that targets online banking users is evolving and spreading rapidly because its creators have adopted an open-source development model, according to researchers from cyberthreat management... Read more

Cyber security experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems... Read more

It’s a turbulent time in the world of content distribution. Despite a successful protest against overly restrictive anti-piracy legislation, law enforcement has demonstrated... Read more

It’s a turbulent time in the world of content distribution. Despite a successful protest against overly restrictive anti-piracy legislation, law enforcement has demonstrated its already considerable power to take copyright-infringing websites offline, and several hosting and torrent sites have gone dark voluntarily to evade prosecution.

In the middle of all these warring groups—or perhaps more accurately, completely removed from them—stands BitTorrent, Inc., a company whose technological innovation gave the Internet important new capabilities, making it easier for everyone to share files, both legally and illegally. Although the word “BitTorrent” is often used in context with the word “piracy,” the company itself has steered clear of legal problems by avoiding any distribution of unlicensed content, and narrowing its focus to delivering the best Internet file-sharing technology it’s capable of building.

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Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly $1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire... Read more

Google promised radical technology proposals would be a part of its Solve for X project, and its initial offerings so far haven't disappointed. Read More →

Microsoft on Wednesday said it will host a launch event for the Windows 8 beta on Feb. 29 in Barcelona, the site of the Mobile World Congress. Previously, Microsoft had promised that it would distribute... Read more

I stopped by Tech News Today on Wednesday to chat on a variety of tech topics. Fortunately for me, the topics were largely familiar as several were topics I had written about including layoffs at Nokia,... Read more

I found CNN's recent report on Foxconn's poor working conditions at a manufacturing plant in China to be astoundingly irritating. Not because they used "Apple" in the headline and focused on the... Read more

The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, asking a court to force the agency to take action against Google over planned changes in the company's... Read more