Younity Launches Beta Version of Personal Cloud Service

Grazed from Technorati. Author: Geoff Simon.

Santa Monica based younity announced today the beta launch of it’s unique personal cloud storage service designed to eliminate device to computer syncing and storage limitations for iPhones and iPads. Today marks the public beta launch of the app, which allows iPhone and iPad users to access all their music, videos, photos and other files from all laptops, desktops without any plugin, plugging in or syncing.

The service also removes storage limitations by not actually storing any of your files online, but instead works by providing a single file system across all devices where younity is installed (either Macs or PCs). Once installed, Younity indexes all your photos, documents, videos and music and represents it as a single file system. So what it allows for, is your machines, whether it’s a Mac or PC to stream the files directly to your iOS device from where they’re at, not by syncing it to a online cloud…

“younity seeks to revolutionize the relationship between people, data and devices. Our vision is to create a way for all your devices to work as if they are a single device,” said Erik Caso, CEO at Entangled Media, who devloped the Younity app. “With an average of more than three Internet-enabled devices per person, users generally don’t want to be forced to use one device or another, they just care about accessing the files. Let’s say you have a PC at the office and a Mac at home, younity allows you to seamlessly access any file you want on-the-go, including music, photos, videos and word documents, via your iPhone, iPad or iPod.”…

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