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Posted June 28, 2011, 11:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming, The Web
OnLive is reportedly in talks with Microsoft and Sony about bringing its streaming service to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles. The revelation was made by the company's vice president of engineering Joe Bentley in an interview with CVG,…
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Posted June 27, 2011, 9:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Apple, The Web
Apple on Friday posted a frequently asked questions page about the transition from MobileMe to iCloud, clearing up confusion about what will happen with existing MobileMe accounts, and revealing that some services will remain accessible via the web -- not…
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Posted June 23, 2011, 12:30 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Microsoft With Video
Microsoft has launched a new version of its Windows Live SkyDrive website that is faster and easier to navigate thanks to the use of HTML5 and hardware acceleration. The new SkyDrive is rolling out gradually, as there are 100 million…
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Posted June 8, 2011, 8:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Microsoft, Apple
Apple has decided not to support Windows XP for its iCloud synchronization service, revealed earlier this week. Given that iCloud's predecessor, MobileMe, supported XP just fine, this is a minor shock, though it makes sense.
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Posted June 6, 2011, 10:24 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, Microsoft
Microsoft's cloud-based Office 365 service for businesses is set to land before the end of this month. CEO Steve Ballmer let slip the planned launch at a cloud summit held in India recently, with June 28 now pinned down as…
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Posted May 19, 2011, 3:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Download of the Week, Software
VirtualBox is a powerful cross-platform virtualization manager that will enable you to run a virtual operating system on your PC. You can run Windows and Linux on a Mac, for example, and switch back and forth between the different operating…
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Posted May 9, 2011, 8:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
Amazon has updated Cloud Player to work with iOS devices. Previously, selecting a song would pop up a mobile QuickTime video player, which meant there was no way to perform simple tasks, such as skipping tracks.
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Posted May 2, 2011, 3:30 AM by Steven Parker | Filed in Microsoft, Industry News
Microsoft claims to be "All In" the cloud, but are they really? Are their services good enough to convert to entirely, without relying on another company for an essential task, such as search? The Redmond software giant is convinced that…
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Posted April 29, 2011, 7:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Apple, The Web
Apple may have bought the iCloud.com domain name for $4.5 million. The rumor is based on information from a source familiar with the company, according to GigaOm.
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Posted April 21, 2011, 5:22 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Apple, The Web
Apple is preparing to launch its long-rumored cloud-based music service, according to two anonymous sources cited by Reuters. Details are still sparse, but the service will supposedly allow iTunes customers to store their songs on a remote server and then…
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Posted April 7, 2011, 8:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Apple, Hardware
Apple has ordered as much as 12 petabytes worth of data storage from EMC unit Isilon Systems, according to an inside source cited by StorageNewsletter. The order supposedly coincides with the upcoming release of a new product that Isilon is…
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Posted March 31, 2011, 10:40 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
HP has announced that its portfolio of web-connected and cloud-aware printers for home and business are the first to support Google Cloud Print out-of-the-box. Google Cloud Print users can print directly to any HP ePrint-enabled printer from any Google Cloud…
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Posted March 29, 2011, 3:35 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web Breaking News
According to the latest tech rumors Google is preparing to challenge Apple's iTunes service with a digital music store of its own, while the latter is supposedly looking to expand its MobileMe service with some music-related features. But today Amazon…
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Posted March 2, 2011, 1:09 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in TechSpot, The Web
There are numerous ways to backup your Gmail data and deciding which way to go will largely depend on the level of effort you want to put into it. You could simply setup Gmail to forward all your mails to another email account and call it a day, for instance.

But there are also a handful of other options that offer a bit more flexibility and convenience. In this brief guide we've listed a few of them, so you can choose whichever best suits your needs.
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Posted January 25, 2011, 7:38 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web, Mobile Computing
Google Cloud Print allows printing from any app on any device, operating system, or browser without the need to install any software, or so Google claims (see below). The service, which just launched as a beta, lets you send documents…
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Posted October 8, 2010, 5:47 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming, The Web
The jury is still out on whether there is a market for cloud-based gaming – and, no, I don’t mean Farmville and the like – but it seems OnLive will soon be getting some company in this space. A somewhat…
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