SugarSync, a 4-star rated online backup service, recently announced support to upload files via email. Now, any file that is attached to an email can be saved in your SugarSync account. In addition, the files are scanned for viruses upon arriving at SugarSync. The email address can be kept private, or shared with colleagues to allow them to upload files into your account.

In addition to this new product offering, and to support the large accounts of some users, they are also adding a new pricing level: $39.99 / month for 500GB of storage.

Read our review of SugarSync, or visit SugarSync.com to learn more.

Citing Gartner Dataquest’s fact that 27.5% of workers will telecommute in 2009, up 10% from the 2008 figure, Laptop Magazine awarded their 2009 Ultimate Choice Award to SugarSync. SugarSync lead the pack, followed by GoToMyPC, LogMeIn, WebEx, and Dell RemoteAccess.

Combining remote access to sync’d data along with online backup, SugarSync secured the win. You can get 2GB of space for free from SugarSync, or try any of their paid programs free for 30 days.

SugarSync tweeted today about the release of their application for Android mobile phones.

This adds to their applications for the iPhone and Blackberry mobile devices (of course, along with their Mac and Windows clients). A Windows Mobile application is currently in Beta.

SugarSync recently announced a new feature for shared folders: daily emails.

This is a great feature to keep tabs on what’s being done on a project, and by whom. Sometimes some work will be done, and you won’t be notified… well now you will. Or sometimes someone will deny working on a file, but now you have proof.

You can edit these email notification settings on both the account page and the shared options page.