Dubbed ‘PC as a Service’, a joint venture between Ericsson and Novatium hopes to bring basic computing to the masses. The general concept is simple — offload the overhead of running an operating system to the cloud for typical tasks such as web browsing and applications. The end result is better performance, bandwidth notwithstanding, and improved battery life.
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Apple could produce a Mac OS X cloud version. It’s been granted a long-standing patent for “administering and maintaining a network-booted operating system” basically giving it the building blocks for a cloud-based OS X. The patent was filed back in July 2006 and is an addition to a patent application originally filed in October 1999. But though the patent is over 10 years old, it’s really relevant to today with Apple prepping a huge data centre and Chrome OS now on the scene…
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Google GDrive, a new mass online storage service from the search giant, will be launched this year – or so say the latest rumours. Hasta la vista, hard drive!
To coincide with the hotly anticipated Left4Dead demo launch on Thursday, Valve is unveiling a brand new Steam service for PC gaming fans. Steam Cloud is a system for storing player settings on the server end, so that when you shift from computer to computer, mouse configurations, keyboard settings and even savegames will stay with you.