Storage World

An online service offers 30GB of free storage accessible via a web browser from anywhere in the world.

The Humyo.com service has nearly 90TB of storage in a former Bank of England vault and an intelligent interface that senses the type of device accessing it and uses the appropriate interface.

This means you can access your files from a mobile phone and stream music and video to it.

However, the basic service does not allow you to transfer files directly to a local machine: you have to open them and save them from within an application. 25GB of the storage is restricted to multimedia files.

A £29.99-a-year premium service gives you 100GB, data encryption, and software that sets the storage up as an extra drive on your PC.

The software also automatically backs up your PC and allows real-time online collaboration on a document over the web.

Founder Dan Conlon says 100,000 people had already signed up at the end of a six-month beta phase, despite a lack of publicity.

The site also allows users to share folders with friends or embed a player in emails and on sites such as Facebook and Myspace so people can view your pictures or videos.