• GDrive is a personal storage platform by Google. The project has been referred to by several other names including Platypus, Google Drive, and Google Storage.The long rumored GDrive may finally launch this year. The Google Drive would make a shift from Microsoft Windows operating system in that it would use 'cloud computing' to enable users to access their email, photographs, documents and spreadsheets from any device with an internet connection.

• 1. Google GDrive embraces cloud computing
  2. GDrive will allow users to hold the whole of their hard drive online
  3. The system will allow users to access their information from any internet device
  4. The system could help cut costsTelegraph: Google's GDrive 'will make the PC redundant'
  5. GDrive is expected to be launched this year
  6. A limited amount of storage may be offered for freeThe Register: Google 'GDrive' revisits tech-pundit G-spot
  7. GDrive will save data despite hardware crashesGaurdian: Google plans to make PCs history
  8. Google has refused to confirm the GDriveFOXnews: Google's Rumored GDrive May 'Kill' the PC
  9. GDrive is set to compete with Microsoft's SkyDrive

• Quotes

  • "With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc). We already have efforts in this direction in terms of GDrive, GDS, Lighthouse, but all of them face bandwidth and storage constraints today." - excerpt from Analyst Day presentation notes.

  • "Does it matter to you that someone can see everything on your computer? Does it matter that Google can be subpoenaed at any time to hand over all your data to the American government?" said Peter Brown, of the Free Software Foundation charity.Telegraph: Google's GDrive 'will make the PC redundant'

  • "There's a clear direction ... away from people thinking, 'This is my PC, this is my hard drive,' to 'This is how I interact with information, this is how I interact with the web," said Dave Armstrong, head of product and marketing for Google Enterprise.

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