It’s a new year, the hangover is fading, the gym sessions are beginning and your computer is fuller than ever of all those all important festive family photos. What better time for a resolution you can really keep: A more secure digital life. No more hard drive crash scares, because for once, all your photos, files and folders can be totally safe.

To that end we are thrilled to announce the release of the latest version of Fiabee.

To bring in the New Year, we are proud to report the latest version of Fiabee is faster than ever.
What does this mean for you? You can backup a lot more of your files, folders and photos in even less time.  Let the upload speeds speak for themselves and backup your data with Fiabee today.

We have also added some generous new offers: For a limited time only, new users will receive 2 GB of backup space totally free of charge, forever. And up to 5 GB of free space forever if you invite your friends to install a free trial.

There is plenty more to come with a whole host of fun and useful new Fiabee features coming very soon, so watch this space.

In the meantime, make the most of our freemium account limited-time offers and try Fiabee now!

We’re delighted to let you know that Fiabee has been invited to present at the Techcrunch Europe event to be held in London the 24th September.

All the information at:

http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/09/15/come-to-techcrunch-london-24-sept-speakers-pitches-party/

If you’re in London come to the event and join us for a beer.

Fiabee’s team

Tell me when your computer was manufactured and I will tell you how long it will last. Gartner, an important company analyst and IT consultancy based in Stamford (U.S.A.), made findings to this effect in their report ‘Benchmarking PC Hardware Reliability’ (June 2006). They report that 15% of the laptops sold between 2005 and 2006 presented manufacturing defects in the first year, and before they are four years old it is expected that this figure will rise to 22%. Faults with hard drives represent 45% of the problems.

However, not only manufacturing defects are to blame. Fiabee was created following the accidental ‘death’ of a hard drive: an external hard drive with massive storage capacity, of the kind so often used to save photos, home videos and other documents. While being taken from the computer to the television it was dropped, and smashed onto the floor. The owner had to resign himself to not only having lost the appliance, but also everything stored on it.

The owner in question was Enrique Borras, one of the members of the team which developed Fiabee. That accident convinced him of the need to save irreplaceable information somewhere really secure. He still uses external hard drives, but only for unimportant documents which can easily be replaced. He won’t ever again use them for anything of any value.

Fiabee’s servers in Germany are permanently controlled and protected against all kinds of incidents, such as fire, hackers or even faults in the connection to the Internet. With Fiabee, a manufacturing defect in the computer or a simple domestic accident will no longer present a threat to your files.

Most of what you own can be valued and replaced. If you find a crack in the windscreen one morning, you phone your insurance company and they change the glass. If your house is burgled or flooded it is an unpleasant shock, but if you have good home insurance you can buy new furniture and appliances. And even in the unlikely event that the building collapses, you will probably be entitled to compensation with which to start again.

As long as your belongings can be valued it is possible to replace them. The problems begin when the value of an object is literally incalculable. Your grandmother’s dinner service, the video of your wedding, photos of births, birthdays and Christmases - these things are irreplaceable.

If you lose your laptop, or the hard disk is damaged, you can always buy a new one. They are not expected to last forever - in fact, the average life of a computer is about four years. But what about everything stored on your computer?  How long do you want to keep that information?  Probably forever.

For all the criticism of Christmas spending, and despite the fact that December is the month of the year when we spend most money, paradoxically, it is at this time of year that money matters least to us. What matters is that Uncle John takes such delight in the Christmas pudding, and that the children’s faces light up as they open their presents, so we are not watching the pennies.

We have chosen Christmas to present Fiabee, because there is nothing more valuable than memories and there is no better time of year to protect them.

Fiabee makes automatic back-up copies and guarantees that the photos, videos and other important files in your computer are always safe. It does a silent, discreet but extremely important job. We are very proud to have created Fiabee: it is not only a product, but a personal memory protector. We are currently putting the finishing touches to it for the launch in April 2009.

Give Fiabee this festive season. Give someone an unforgettable Christmas and 2009.