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Working in Word, Excel, PowerPoint on an iPad

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on January 11 at 6:04 pm PT

Walt reviews an app that brings the full, genuine Windows versions of the key Office productivity apps — Word, Excel and PowerPoint — to the iPad.

OnLive Streams Xbox-Quality Games Like L.A. Noire to the iPad

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 8, 2011 at 1:06 am PT

OnLive, a Pandora-like service for videogames, has figured out a way to bring console-quality games to the iPad and Android tablets.

Flixlab Tackles the Last Thing an iPhone Does Slowly: Export Video

Drake Martinet in Social on July 23, 2011 at 12:48 pm PT

The iPhone user experience is pretty snappy — unless, that is, you are trying to export a video. Flixlab is trying to change that by moving the hard part to the cloud.

HTC Deal Shows Importance of Content to Manufacturers

Ben Rooney, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 9, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

News that Taiwanese handset maker HTC has bought the London-based Saffron Digital and taken a stake in the U.S.-based on-demand games company Onlive Inc. shows the increasing importance for manufacturers to differentiate themselves in the market. The days of simply making better and better phones are over.

HTC Invests in Two Mobile Software Companies

Lorraine Luk, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 8, 2011 at 2:32 am PT

HTC Corp. unveiled two investments in software companies in the latest push by the Taiwanese company to expand through acquisitions in the lucrative but competitive smartphone market. HTC said it will acquire London-based mobile platform company Saffron Digital for $48.6 million and will buy a $40 million stake in U.S.-based on-demand games company OnLive Inc.

IPhone App iTeleport Wants You to Get Excited About VNC

Voices in News on December 17, 2010 at 4:12 pm PT

On the go and want to have a look at that spreadsheet you forgot to transfer to your iPad? What about checking on the progress of that movie download? VNC, or virtual network computing, apps have been the solution to those problems since the app store debuted, and one of them is about to make a big bet, go free-ish and try to start a new direction.

OnLive Claims Long-Delayed Patent is Pivotal

Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 14, 2010 at 11:40 am PT

Tech entrepreneur Steve Perlman has his name on more than 100 U.S. patents. He is particularly excited about his latest, but miffed at the same time.

Dive Tech–OnLive Now More Than Just a Game (Video)

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on December 7, 2010 at 9:49 am PT

Way back in June, OnLive demoed its cloud-based mini gaming console in front of a packed house at D8. Today, it is attempting to level-up, announcing a new extension of the OnLive cloud service platform–one that turns just about any device into a console for their cloud system.

Full D8 Demo Video: OnLive

Kara Swisher in D8 on August 9, 2010 at 8:01 am PT

As promised, All Things Digital is posting the full videos from our eighth D: All Things Digital conference, held in early June. Today, please don’t miss this riveting demo of OnLive by longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Perlman, an innovative start-up aimed at bringing high-end games to users, streamed from the cloud. But the idea is much bigger than cloud gaming, since OnLive is essentially the most interesting example of how almost anything can be deployed in this manner.