ANCHOR LEAD IN:
MANY OF US KNOW THE NIGHTMARE OF LOSING PRECIOUS PHOTOS AND FILES
STORED ON OUR P-C'S WHEN THE COMPUTER CRASHES-OFTEN WITHOUT WARNING. THAT'S WHY WE'VE GOT PILES OF DISCS EVERYWHERE OR AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE TAKING UP SPACE. NOW, THERE'S A NEW OPTION---ONLINE STORAGE. HERE'S _____________ WITH
TODAY'S HEADS UP.

TRACK ONE Length: 06
SEBASTIAN LEMENAGER (luh-men-uh-jay) HAS THE SAME WORRY MANY OF THE REST OF US HAVE ABOUT OUR PERSONAL COMPUTERS.

SOT
KEY @ : 08Sebastien Lemenager, Uses Online Storage
"I'll go home, start my computer one day, and it won't start up. It'll be dead and thousands of photographs are just gone."

TRACK TWO Length: 09
SO, SEBASTIEN IS PROTECTING HIS PHOTOS AND FILES WITH A BACKUP SYSTEM THAT GIVES HIM PEACE OF MIND…HE'S USING A NEW ONLINE REMOTE STORAGE SERVICE…
CALLED BOX-DOT-NET.

SOT
KEY @ : 28 Sebastien Lemenager, Uses Online Storage
"It can be a relief to be able to upload anything I want to this service and not have to worry about, say, losing or breaking a backup DVD."

TRACK THREE Length: 05
ONLINE STORAGE COMPANIES ARE A BIG HIT WITH BIG BUSINESS-AND HAVE
BEEN FOR YEARS.

SOT
KEY @ : 38 Brian Cooley, CNET
"They do this because they want to have data security in case literally their building has a fire or major problem."

TRACK FOUR Length:13
AND AS IT TURNS OUT, PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND ME WANT THIS KIND OF SERVICE,
TOO... AND NOT JUST FOR BACKUPS…ONLINE STORAGE ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO EXPAND YOUR COMPUTER MEMORY AND SOMETIMES SHARE FILES…BY SENDING LINKS OR GRANTING ACCESS TO YOUR ACCOUNT.

SOT
KEY @ : 58 Brian Cooley, CNET
"This has become very common these days as people want to share photos, video-more and more commonly-- and of course music."

TRACK FIVE Length: 05
YOU CAN LOG ONTO THE SITE AND ACCESS YOUR FILES USING ANY INTERNET CAPABLE DEVICE...ANYWHERE.

SOT
NO KEY
"It's a wonderful way of basically having your computer anywhere you go."

TRACK SIX Length: 08
SO, WHAT WILL THIS COST YOU? ANYWHERE FROM FREE TO $15 A MONTH DEPENDING ON THE SPACE YOU NEED. BUT ONE THING TO KEEP IN MIND:

SOT
KEY @ : 1:21 Brian Cooley, CNET
"Backing up to an online service takes a long time because uplink speed on your DSL or cable line is not like you're used to at your office"

TRACK SEVEN Length:06
SEBASTIEN SAYS UPLOADING MAY BE A LITTLE SLOW AT TIMES, BUT THIS NEW SERVICE BRINGS HIM SOME RAPID RELIEF.

SOT
NO KEY
"I'd recommend online storage companies to pretty much anyone."

ANCHOR TAG:
IF YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THE SECURITY OF YOUR FILES, CHECK TO
SEE IF THE SERVICE ENCRYPTS THE DATA AT YOUR COMPUTER-THAT WAY YOU KNOW IT'S PROTECTED AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE INTERNET.

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Brian Cooley
Editor at Large-CNET,
CNET Networks
235 Second Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Contact: Jen Concepcion 415-344-2441

We also talked with XDrive from AOL about their online service.
Contact: Jane Lennon,
JaneLennon@aol.com.
Information about XDrive is available at www.xdrive.com.

There's a comprehensive overview of online backup and filestorage at wiseGEEK.com. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-online-data-storage.htm

FOR CLIENT-STATION USE ONLY (not for publication)
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Sebastien Lemanager,
781-454-7610, Boston, MA
Sebastien uses Box.net for online storage of photos and files.


  Coming Soon!

ONLINE STORAGE- A SENSE OF SECURITY
HUM0703-12
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Run Time: 1:39