Google is believed to be on the verge of launching Gdrive, a new free service which will allow users to store the entire contents of their hard drives on the internet.
According to reports, Google is looking to launch Gdrive next year, and would potentially mean that any device with an internet connection could perform the tasks of a PC.
The free service would be powerful enough to boot up programmes and, potentially, a Google operating system, and would be an extension of Google's current online data storage product tied into its Gmail email offering, which allows users to store documents and images.
However there are concerns among privacy campaigners over whether it is a good idea to allow such a quantity of commercial and private data to be available online, and with Google’s past reputation on privacy, would you trust them?
Gdrive would rival Microsoft’s Sky Drive which offers 25GB of free storage, but has a limit of 500MB per file. The current beta version of Sky Drive automatically synchronises files across the PC, mobile and web.
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