By Lucas Mearian
July 13, 2009 
Which online service is right for you?
Computerworld - John Chunta had spent four and a half years writing his doctoral dissertation when, two weeks before its expected completion, his laptop’s hard drive crashed and he lost the 200-page document.
“The ‘blue screen of death’ is what the tech guy called it,” says Chunta, [...]

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iSpeech text to speech instantly converts Word, PDF, PowerPoint, Excel and Web Document files to audio on Box.net
Newark, NJ (PRWEB) April 28, 2009 — iSpeech.org, text to speech software as a service (SaaS) company, announces its services are now available to anyone using the Box.net platform. The integration allows Box customers to instantly listen to [...]

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April 12, 2009
BMighty.com
Storage can be expensive to manage and maintain, not to mention the constant need for more disk space. By using cloud computing for data storage, business owners can take advantage of more attractive pricing and minimize ongoing costs while integrating a host of new features available from different vendors.
Cloud services offered as either cloud [...]

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March 27, 2009 
By ANDY IHNATKO ai@andyi.com
A great sweeping move forward in one area of technology can enable the advancement of countless others. Take high-speed broadband, for example. Once considered a bit of a frill, today it’s simply a ubiquitous utility that offers ungodly data speeds in neighborhoods barely savvy enough to install their grass with the green [...]

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March 26, 2009
Business customers can search the full-text of Word, PDF, PowerPoint, Excel, Web Document files
Palo Alto, Calif. (PRWEB) March 24, 2009 — Box.net, an online collaboration tools provider, today announced the addition of full-text search capabilities for Box business customers. Full-text search provides users with more relevant and complete search results, based on text [...]

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February 05, 2009
By David Chartier
Offering online file storage and integration with lots of other Web services for some time, Box.net on Thursday released a major new version designed with small and medium businesses in mind. New features for collaboration, file permissions, and discussion make [...]

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December 22, 2008
Enterprise 2.0 service MindMeister opens its Mind Mapping features to external partners. Box.net and net-files offer MindMeister features to their customers via web-based integration.
FELDKIRCHEN, Germany, Dec. 17, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — MindMeister, the leading web-based mind mapping service, recently launched a new API (Application Programming Interface) that allows external partners to integrate MindMeister’s award-winning [...]

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November 06, 2008
By James E. Gaskin, Networld World
Although it may seem like your computing life is all e-mail and browsing, computer users still create files, documents, spreadsheets, boring presentations and all manner of other stored information. Which brings me to the question: Where do you store your data? And are you ready to store your [...]

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October 26, 2008
By Doriano “Paisano” Carta
Box.net has released a new iPhone app that enables users to access their files stored on their Box.net account. The free basic account allows up to 1 GB of storage with a 25 MB file size limit and 10 GB of monthly traffic. This is good news [...]

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By PETER WAYNER
NYTimes
Published: October 22, 2008

“My wife’s computer crashed first,” lamented Francis Wade. Then his followed a few weeks later, as if part of some malicious digital conspiracy.
“God knows what happened to it. Windows started to misbehave. I couldn’t get into anything. It got progressively slower and slower.” It was so slow he couldn’t even [...]

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October 02, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO and PARIS, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ — Box.net, a leading provider of online file storage and collaboration services today announced the release of its Box.net services for France. This release provides French consumers, small businesses, and enterprise users with the Box.net site and experience completely localized to French-speaking users.
“Among our users, [...]

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September 23, 2008
Box.net, a leading provider of tools for managing and sharing data online, today announced that it will be integrated into the Intuit® Partner Platform.
Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) September 23, 2008 — Box.net, a leading provider of tools for managing and sharing data online, today announced that it will be integrated into the [...]

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by Matt Williamson on September 16th, 2008
Our computers are shrinking again, even as they become incredibly more powerful.  Ultra portable laptops, sometimes called ‘netbooks’, are sitting on boardroom tables all across America, and smartphones are in the hands of teenagers, the college crowd. and (shudder) even our CEOs.  As these devices move from the techno-elite [...]

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September 04, 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ — Box.net, a leading provider of tools for managing and sharing data online, today announced it has teamed with Dell to offer remote storage on the highly anticipated Inspiron Mini 9. A purpose-built device designed for ultimate on-the-go-mobility, Dell’s Inspiron Mini features a direct link to [...]

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September 04, 2008
Courtesy of the Bonnier Group Publications
Online Backup Review of 8 companies: Keepit, Norcube, Idrive, Box.net, Mozy, Adrive, Backup2Net, and BuddyBackup
Bonnier Group Publications recently reviewed the above eight online backup companies based on:

Storage space
User friendliness
Security, and
Functionalities
Please click here to read this well written 6 page review

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September 01, 2008
Companies Reviewed Include:
AllMyData, Badongo, BeInSync, Box.net, Carbonite, DivShare, DriveHQ, Drop.io, Dropboks, ElephantDrive, eSnips, FilesAnywhere, FolderShare, GetDropBox.com, iBackup, iDrive, in.solit.us, JungleDisk, MediaFire, MegaUpload, Mesh, MobileMe, Mozy, MyBloop, Omemo, Omnidrive, Openomy, OrbitFiles, SkyDrive, Steekr, SugarSync, SwapDrive, Wua.la, XDrive, Yahoo! Briefcase, and Yuntaa
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The past several weeks I’ve been scouring the web in search of the best [...]

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August 18, 2008
Box.net, a leading provider of tools for managing and sharing data online, today announced a redesign of the Box.net website. The new design emphasizes the Box Enterprise product, and new features have been added to the Enterprise Management Console.
Palo Alto, Calif. (PRWEB) August 18, 2008 — Box.net, a leading provider of tools for [...]

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August 17, 2008
Secure your Stuff in Cyber–Storage
Why store your files where they are vulnerable to damage, easily lost, take up hard drive space and impossible to access unless you’re at your computer? Put them online.
Click to read “Why Use an Online Storage Service?”
Please click here to continue reading this review of Ten Online [...]

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August 05, 2008
Box.net today announced the launch of BoxEDU for students and educators. BoxEDU gives faculty and students alike tools to store and manage content online, providing an easy-to-use solution for accessing and collaborating on files securely and effectively.
Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) August 5, 2008 — As a result of the significant increase in demand [...]

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Online Storage System Organizes Content from All Sources
Palo Alto, Calif. (PRWEB) April 3, 2008 — Box.net, a leading provider of online file storage and collaboration tools, announced today that it has partnered with ShoZu to enable consumers to quickly and easily send photos and videos captured on their mobile devices to [...]

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January 23, 2008

Box.net announced today that it has raised $6 million in a Series B financing led by venture capital firm U.S. Venture Partners, and includes Box.net Series A investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
 
 
 
Palo Alto, Calif. (PRWEB) January 23, 2008 — Box.net, the web’s first online file system, announced today that it has raised $6 million [...]

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January 20, 2008
In a recent post about del.icio.us, I highlighted the advantages of tagging and saving bookmarks online instead of locally. Having information tethered to one computer is not practical, convenient, or necessary. The same holds true for important data files; your “desktop” takes on a whole new meaning when working with multiple computers in [...]

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December 11, 2007
 
Box.net (Palo Alto, CA) – Acts as a virtual hard drive or backup storage medium that allows users to edit, share and safeguard their documents online. The founder and CEO of Box.net, Aaron Levie, has now launched an OpenBox platform on November 13, 2007, that permits users to link information from Box.net with other [...]

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November 16, 2007

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November 13, 2007
Online storage provider Box.net is announcing today the launch of OpenBox, a platform for developers to integrate their web applications into Box.net.
 
The platform, once rolled out in full by December 5th, will enable web developers to create “service actions” on Box.net that allow users to easily load their files into 3rd-party web applications. [...]

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October 17, 2007
 
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April 12, 2007
 
By Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.com
 

We wrote about Box.net a long time ago when we did a wrapup of online storage startups, and again in October 2006 when they raised a venture round from Draper Fisher Jurvetson. They’ve been keeping busy. Box.net now has 820,000 registered users and transfers 600,000 files per day.
 
Today they launched [...]

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