So you thought Apple was being generous when the company allotted 5GB of free online storage space for every new iCloud user? Cloud storage service Box.net has been in the business a little longer than Apple, and today the company has announced that it’s offering 10 times more storage for iOS users. If you download the free Box.net app for the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad,… Read more »

Ubuntu One is service that lets subscribers back up data from a computer running the Ubuntu Linux operating system to the web and synchronize files and settings between multiple computers. A while back, Canonical released Ubuntu One Music, a companion Android app which allowed users of the cloud sync platform to effortlessly access music purchased through its own store or uploaded from a connected system. While… Read more »

Quite some time ago, ambitious hackers learned that Windows Phone 7 could work as a USB mass storage device — the feature simply wasn’t enabled by default. To switch it on required a little manual hacking in the registry, but locked devices were still out of luck. Then along came the Chevron WP7 “jailbreak” tool, and anyone who was willing to engage in a little… Read more »

With so many Android apps now able to install themselves to your microSD card — or at least store application data on it — it’s not hard to fritter away a few megabytes or even gigabytes in a hurry. That’s why it’s a good idea to have a few apps installed to help you keep an eye on your storage media and let you know… Read more »

Online storage service Box.net is launching a new version of its Android app, with improved support for uploading files from your mobile phone. In addition to uploading files from your SD card using the file browser, you can also now go into the native photo, video, and music apps to upload files. The new version also has a new “create” option, which lets you snap… Read more »

First the good news: Unlike certain smartphone platforms on the market, Windows Phone 7 will allow users to store data on SD cards, not just built-in storage space. Now the bad news: You won’t easily be able to remove and replace that SD card. That’s because Microsoft says Windows Phone devices will have special SD cards that offer high performance — and which are recognized… Read more »

One of the new features in Google Android 2.2 Froyo is the ability to store applications on an SD card, freeing up space on your phone’s main memory. Developers need to enable this feature in their apps, so not every app available can be stored on an SD card, but I’ve already freed up plenty of storage space on my Nexus One by moving a… Read more »

Up until recently Android phones tended to use SD cards as storage space, while reserving the internal memory for installed programs and personal data. But the HTC Incredible and a few other recent phones are shipping with large amounts of internal storage space which you can use to store music, videos, and other data — and developers are starting to alter their applications to take… Read more »

For the last year and a half or so, Issue 1151 has been hanging out in the Android code page. What’s Issue 1151? A request to be able to install apps on a phone’s SD card instead of the built in storage. Since many Android phones have limited storage space, but can accept much larger SD cards, this would make it easy to install more… Read more »