Google today launched a long-anticipated "Drive" service that lets people store photos, videos, and other digital files in the Internet "cloud."
Google Drive accounts with five gigabytes of storage were available free at drive.google.com."
The model is really designed at the core to help people live their lives in the cloud," Google vice president for Chrome and Apps Sundar Pichai said on a conference call with reporters.
"Google Drive is something we see as central to the online experience at Google." Google Drive software has been tailored for Windows and Macintosh computers as well as smartphones or tablets powered by Google-backed Android software.
A version tailored for Apple mobile gadgets will be released soon, according to Pichai.
