AOL unveils Xdrive's 5GB free storage for Mac
September 6, 2008 |13:01 | Free Web Space By : Team X
AOL LLC launched the first Mac version of its free online storage service, Xdrive, by unveiling a public beta written for the new Adobe AIR platform.
The move pits the online media company against storage giant EMC Corp. in the battle to give away storage "in the cloud" to Macintosh users.
Xdrive Desktop Lite runs on AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), Adobe Systems Inc.'s new runtime that also debuted today. AIR, which takes the functionality of Web-based technologies like Flash and HTML and then combines them with desktop-style APIs such as drag-and-drop, is Adobe's attempt to bridge the online-offline gap.
