Canonical released Ubuntu 11.04 this week, giving the operating system a dramatically new user interface as well as some new features and performance tweaks. The company also recently launched an updated version of the Ubuntu One music app for Android. Ubuntu One allows Ubuntu Linux users to store music online and access it from a computer or mobile device. The service is free to use… Read more »

It looks like HP may be preparing to launch new music and movie stories fro webOS devices including the upcoming HP TouchPad tablet. PreCentral received a tip suggesting that the tablet will have an HP Music Store and HP Movie Store. The leak comes from a presentation HP sent to a PreCentral tipster. The images look like mockups for now, but the slide includes information… Read more »

Amazon’s Cloud Drive service launched this week, giving any Amazon customer 5GB of free space to store music files online where they can be accessed from any Mac or Windows computer or Android phone or tablet. But a company called mSpot has been offering a similar service since last year. One of the key differences is that mSpot only gave users 2GB of free storage,… Read more »

Microsoft’s Windows Live SkyDrive provides users with 25GB of free cloud storage for all sorts of files. You can access your SkyDrive data from pretty much any computer with a web browser, or from a Windows Phone device. But it turns out that all you need to access your SkyDrive on Android is a free app called Sorami. The app lets you login to your… Read more »

SugarSync, ZumoDrive, Dropbox, and HomePipe are three apps that let you access files from your computer on your mobile phone. I mean, that’s not all they do. They actually let you synchronize files between computers, and store some of your files on the web — making it easy to access documents, music, photos, videos, or other files from virtually any computer with a web browser…. Read more »

ZumoDrive is a service that lets you synchronize files on your PC with a cloud-based storage system. In other words, click on the music directory on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer, link it to your ZumoDrive account, and you can pull up a web browser on any computer to listen to music, view photos, watch videos, or download files that have been shared. The… Read more »