Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data

The Wall Street Journal notified that Google plans to offer consumers another service to store their files on Google`s hard drives. This will be a strategy that could accelerate a shift to Web-based computing and intensify the Internet company's competition with Microsoft Corp, says the journal.

 

The new service will let users store 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 on Google`s computers. Users will 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.

Free storage, with additional storage allotments available for a fee, is planned to be provided by the Mountain View, Calif.

The service is likely to be released in a few months.