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image thumb14 iPhone Nano Will Cost $200 Will Have No Local Storage

I appreciate Apple trying to make the iPhone more affordable but the idea of introducing an iPhone Nano without external storage sounds like an indigestible idea. Especially now, when mobiles are getting more powerful and fit to perform tasks more efficiently.

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image thumb36 16 Terabytes for $4,096 a year: Google has all the storage to offer for cheap

Storage is not a issue for Google. I mean it offers 7GB for Gmail users, 40GB for Picasa users at $5 a year. And I guess Google just realized that it isn’t enough so its offering users 16 Terabytes of storage which is enough to store around 8 million high resolution photos. Don’t dance yet, for this isn’t free and you will have to pay $4,096 a year. Of course this isn’t for people like me and you who are doing general stuff and still utilize a mere 11% of their Gmail storage in more than half a decade. But those who do need that huge an amount, can definitely afford the price. There are varying models as well: 8 TB for 2,048 and 4TB at $1,024 a year. Sounds good enough, especially if you have loads of things you wont to access from anywhere.

Funding thumb3 Box.net raises $7.1 Million for its Cloud bases storage service

File storage and sharing platform, Box.net has raised a healthy $7.1 Million. The round was led by  Draper Fisher Jurvetson along with participation from US Venture Partners. The service offers users a pay as you go storage facility on the cloud plus it also released its application for the iPhone called OpenBox Mobile with similar apps coming for other devices like the Android and BlackBerry.