{"id":48562,"date":"2012-04-25T08:42:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T06:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=48562"},"modified":"2012-04-25T08:43:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T06:43:43","slug":"google-increases-free-gmail-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/48562-google-increases-free-gmail-storage.html","title":{"rendered":"Google increases free Gmail storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> has increased the free storage available to its Gmail internet service users to 10GB.<\/p>\n<p>The service launched in 2004, offering users 1GB of cloud-based storage. That amount has steadily been increasing over the years, and peaked at 7GB earlier this week, before the latest update.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in storage comes with the launch of a new service by the web giant, Google Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Drive is a cloud storage service aimed at competing with <a title=\"Dropbox\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/374040-Dropbox\">Dropbox<\/a> and <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft\u2019s<\/a> Skydrive.<\/p>\n<p>Google Drive offers 5GB of cloud-based storage, allowing users to store, collaborate on, and share documents as well as other files.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/04\/24\/google-ups-free-gmail-storage-to-10gb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is providing users with more free storage on its internet-based email service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":28750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[11016,407,167,10232,11018],"class_list":["post-48562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-dropbox-microsoft","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-google-drive","tag-skydrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}