Hours after Microsoft opened its Windows
Live SkyDrive online storage product
beta to all comers, Google followed
up with the announcement of its Shared
Storage service.
Unlike SkyDrive, Google Shared Storage
orients toward expanding the capacity
for the Gmail and Picasa Web Album services.
The service doles out storage to the
product that needs it under someone's
Google account.
Google's Ryan Aquino posted some basics
about the service at the official Google
blog. He noted that the entry level
price of $20 per year for 6GB of storage
was $5 less than what had previously
been charged for extra Picasa Web Album
storage.
Gmail currently offers about 2.8GB
of free storage, a figure that has been
gradually increasing over time. Picasa's
free storage tops out at 1GB, a figure
that an active photographer with lots
of high-resolution images can fill pretty
fast.
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