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Google Drive

Have you heard the latest news yet? ‘The Next Web’ has announced that Google will be launching their own cloud service named ‘Google Drive’ within the next few days that will compete directly with Dropbox. TNW has released a screenshot of the homepage to ‘Google Drive’ which it has been given an early trial to by Google. The screenshot clearly shows text on the homepage stating that Google Drive users will be given 5GB of free storage before they have to pay a penny. This is compared to Dropbox which only currently offer 2GB free storage to each user without having to pay. Although Google are eventually planning to start charging for the service.

Twitter users took to the web on Tuesday trending the words ‘Google Drive’. Users of the social media website posted messages such as ‘RIP Dropbox’. Could this be a sign that Dropbox, the company which has had domination over the cloud market for so long, could lose all of its customers the day that Googles new service is launched? Only time will tell.

Google Drive is expected to launch Tuesday 24th April at the url: Drive.Google.com

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'The New iPad'

Well, its finally here. On Wednesday 7th March Apple finally announced the ‘New iPad’ after months of speculation of when their next release would be. Perhaps the most memorable thing about this release is the name; not the iPad 3, not the iPad HD, simply: ‘The New iPad’. This has led to a lot of speculation of what will come after this release because after all, you can’t name the next iPad the iPad 4 if you haven’t given this one a name. Industry experts such as the guys over at Twit.tv were quoted on their live show suggesting that Apple are preparing to bring out a smaller ebook reader version of the iPad to compete with companies such as Amazon having made the Kindle.

To summarize the new iPad: It has a new 9.7-inch retina display which it boasts on its website as ‘Resolutionary’. It says it has ‘Four times more pixels than iPad 2, Razor-sharp text and Richer colors. The Retina display transforms the entire iPad experience. So everything looks and feels incredibly lifelike and perfectly detailed.’

It also has an A5X chip with quad-core graphics which drives four times the pixels of iPad 2, 10 hours of battery life despite the new display, 4G LTE which is ‘Built with the latest in wireless technology. The new iPad lets you connect to fast data networks around the world — up to 4G LTE.’, Dictation, iCloud, Airplay and the new iPad smart cover.

For an interactive tour of The New iPads features visit: http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/

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