Remember a week ago when I reported that SugarSync’s referral bonus space expires on January 1, 2011 and this information was cleverly hidden in their Referral Terms? One day after this, I was informed by Drew Garcia, VP of Product Management at SugarSync, that the terms will be updated in a week or so to allow users to keep their bonus space for the life of their account. And this was definitely the truth. From SugarSync’s Referral Terms (Updated): 11. All Additional Storage received [...]

SugarSync’s referral terms have been updated allowing users to keep their referral bonus for the life of their account. Read more about this here. Hooray! Remember our recent First Class Flyer comparison between file syncing utilities and how I mentioned that Dropbox and SugarSync both gave 250 MB bonus space per referral? Well, thanks to information by commenter Skeezicks, it turns out SugarSync has some sneaky information in their Terms of Service. Refer a friend. You both earn 250 MB of [...]

“In order to access certain Services, you may be required to provide information about yourself (such as identification or contact details) as part of the registration process for the Service, or as part of your continued use of the Services. You agree that any registration information you give will always be accurate, correct and up to date. After reading a 12 page Terms of Service, you'll be looking like this. Almost every website or software product required a Terms of Service, [...]

If you ever visited the websites or seen the ads for the top rated shared web hosts, you would have noticed most of them advertise ‘Unlimited Disk Space’ and ‘Unlimited Bandwidth’ along with Unlimited everything else also. This is a very common marketing tactic and can be slightly misleading. Unlimited Disk Space and Bandwidth are often offered by shared hosts charging only a few dollars a month. This is mainly targeted toward newbies and beginners who are not sure how web [...]