Google reportedly offering online storage - Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi -

Google reportedly offering online storage - Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi -: "Google reportedly offering online storage By Dean Takahashi Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 at 7:55 am in General, Google, storage. Looks like Box.net and others like it are going to have a very big competitor. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal today, Google is working on providing online storage to users. Here’s the top of that story: Google Inc. wants to offer consumers a new way to store their files on its hard drives, in a strategy that could accelerate a shift to Web-based computing and intensify the Internet company’s competition with Microsoft Corp. Google is preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives — such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images, say people familiar with the matter. The service could let users access their files via the Internet from different computers and mobile devices when they sign on with a password, and share them online with friends. It could be released as early as a few months from now, one of the people said. The Mountain View, Calif., company plans to provide some free storage, with additional storage allotments available for a fee, say the people"