Acer to release new cloud apps in June, eyes partnerships in smart devices

May 29, 2014

Acer’s “Build Your Own Cloud” service will start rolling out to consumers in late June with a suite of updated apps that will work on mobile devices and PCs, including devices from other companies.The struggling PC maker talked up the company’s cloud strategy Thursday, showing off apps that it is marketing under the “ab” brand, which stands for “Acer” and “Build Your Own Cloud.” The products are a major update to Acer’s existing cloud-based apps, and let users synchronize files and multimedia on PCs and mobile devices.Unlike other online storage services such as Dropbox or Google Drive, Acer will save all the data directly to the user’s PC, which will function as a kind of private, mini data center.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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