OnLive Desktop gone live in Apple's App Store, offering iPad owners instant access to a cloud-based Windows desktop complete with Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Announced earlier in the week, OnLive Desktop - which is a free download [iTunes link] and currently has no ongoing subscription charges for the basic package - allows documents to be viewed, created and edited, with the promise of more apps incoming soon.
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OnLive Desktop for iPad released
How Much Longer Will Consoles Be Around?
After Sony’s gaming leader Kaz Hirai said at the Consumer Electronics Show recently that his company would not be unveiling new hardware at the E3 Gaming Expo later this year, a slew of people took to the Web to wonder when it might finally offer up a new console. Some say it could happen next year, while others think it could be 2014. There are even some folks who say Sony won’t release its new console until 2015.
CES 2012 Smart TV Round-Up
If ultrabooks and smartphones led the charge for your credit card in mobile gadgetry at CES 2012 this week, Smart TV did the same for living room scale tech. Google TV made its new strike on the market, having rallied for a second scuffle after its embarrassing first-gen flop, while homegrown smart TV systems did their level best to compete. All that was wrapped up with oversized LCD and plasma panels or in slick set-top boxes, with the promise of a world of video-on-demand, cloud-gaming and more just waiting at the end of your broadband pipe. Confusing times, perhaps, but not if you head on through to the SlashGear Smart TV round-up!
OnLive reveals Google TV cloud-gaming app incoming
OnLive has announcedi a new cloud gaming app for Google TV, effectively bringing console-class games to the smart TV platform. Initially starting with an OnLive Viewer app for Google TV, allowing you to spectate in ongoing games and take advantage of the social interaction features, a full version supporting gameplay is in the pipeline.
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OnLive Desktop brings full Windows apps to iPad
Known for delivering instant-action gaming over the cloud, OnLive is now adding a new service of delivering enterprise productivity tools over the cloud. The company will be bringing the first no-compromise Windows apps experience to the iPad. Through its free OnLive Desktop app, which will be available this Thursday, iPad users will be able to access full-featured Windows 7 applications, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, that are remotely hosted in the cloud.
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OnLive hits iOS and Android with phone/tablet cloud gaming
OnLive has launched its smartphone and tablet cloud gaming apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, bringing console-class gaming to WiFi and 3G/4G mobile devices with an optional wireless controller. This updated control pad uses what OnLive calls “adaptive wireless” to automatically find the best connection with your TV, PC, Mac, Blu-ray player, smartphone or tablet, and will go on sale on December 9 at $49.99/£39.99. Check out the video demo after the cut.
HTC: Quietly Blundering
To say HTC is having a bad month is an understatement: share price ditching, outlook slashed and reeling from an embarrassing and unexpected defeat by Apple in the patent courts. The company that once led the smartphone segment has found its “Quietly Brilliant” message struggling to be heard above the crowd. The potential collapse of the S3 Graphics deal is just the latest stage of the company’s ebbing momentum, though it can’t blame the USITC entirely for investors’ loss of faith. HTC lost its common Sense some time ago.
OnLive hits UK: Streaming gaming is go
Streaming game company OnLive has officially launched in the UK, bringing its cloud-hosted gaming system to PCs, Macs and TVs, with tablet and phones support in the pipeline. Around 150 titles are available for UK gamers at launch, with a special offer making the first just £1 ($1.55), and either per-title or subscription packages are available. Meanwhile, OnLive has also confirmed that EA Games titles will soon be arriving in the catalog, beginning with Bulletstorm.
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GameStop pulls Deus Ex from store shelves after OnLive controversy
GameStop has completely yanked the PC version of the Deus Ex: Human Revolution game title from its store shelves following the OnLive controversy. The game retailer had come under fire after it was revealed and then comfirmed that the company was opening up boxes of the Deus Ex game to remove coupons from cloud-gaming competitor OnLive.
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GameStop removes OnLive coupons from Deus Ex
GameStop has ordered its employees to open up new boxes of the Deus Ex: Human Revolution game title to remove the included OnLive coupon. The offer gives customers, who purchase the regular PC version of the game, a free OnLive version, encouraging them to try the OnLive cloud gaming platform. This didn't sit well with GameStop, as cloud gaming is certainly competition for video gaming dollars.
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OnLive UK launch September 22 with 100+ streaming games
OnLive has announced that it will be launching its UK streaming gaming service on September 22, with a 100+ line-up of titles on offer from day one. Available for HDTV, PC, Mac, and iPad and Android tablet play, the new UK service will be fully connected with the existing US service, allowing gamers in both countries to take each other on in multiplayer titles with complete voice chat support.
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DIDO uses the cloud to process WiFi and 3G traffic for less latency
The company that brought us the OnLive cloud gaming system has a new way to use the cloud to reduce the latency and interference associated with sending WiFi and 3G data across a network. The new system is called DIDO and it was invented by Steve Perlman. Perlman offered a glimpse at what DIDO can do for cloud services like OnLive gaming in the whitepaper describing the DIDO system.
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