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Today’s cloud storage/backup market is flooded with competition, all offering similar services. Dropbox, Box.net, Amazon Cloud Storage, Minus.com, Memopal, Windows SkyDrive, Google Docs (of a sort) and, finally, Ubuntu One.

But which is the best service? Is the most storage for free the criteria that makes it the best? Security?

Ease of use? Least annoying?

ZDnet: Who needs Live Mesh, YouSendIt, or Dropbox when desktop Ubuntu Linux comes with its own built-in free cloud file and music-streaming client and service.

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Nearly one year after releasing its free cloud-based hosting service for developers of Python-based applications, Google revealed a new fee structure for those making active use of the offering.