Steve Perlman

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.

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.

Google's Android Kingpin Andy Rubin Will Open D: Dive Into Mobile (Plus, One More Surprise!)

Kara Swisher in News on November 22, 2010 at 6:01 am PT

While everyone is considering whether to brine or deep-fry the turkey this week, All Things Digital HQ will be busy with our preparations for D: Dive Into Mobile. That includes setting the program, which takes place in two weeks and will open with an evening interview with Google’s Andy Rubin. Plus, there is one more surprise speaker we’ll be adding to the program too.

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.

D8 Tech Demo: OnLive

Drake Martinet in D8 on June 3, 2010 at 10:16 am PT

On-demand streaming has crept into nearly every media space, and today, OnLive hopes to open the last door and bring high-end games to users, streamed from the cloud.

Why Will Google TV Be Any Different From WebTV? Or AOL TV? Or MSNTV? Or…

John Paczkowski in News on May 21, 2010 at 9:12 am PT

At its I/O developer conference Thursday in San Francisco, Google predicted it would “change the future of television” with GoogleTV, an effort to marry broadcast TV with the Web. And in comments about the announcement, the company’s executives hawked the new software and hardware bundle with similarly aggrandizing pronouncements.

Perlman's Cloud-Based OnLive Gaming Service Goes Live, but Not Until June

Kara Swisher in News on March 10, 2010 at 12:29 pm PT

Longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Perlman has been ferreting away on a new cloud gaming service called OnLive for a while now. Finally, it’s got a due date to go live–June 17 at the E3 conference in Los Angeles. As in OnLive will be live, but it’s not live yet. Get it?

What Happens When Games Go to "The Cloud"

Nick Wingfield, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 2, 2009 at 1:00 am PT

On Wednesday, a startup called OnLive that’s generating a lot of buzz–and skepticism–in the videogame world raised a new round of financing from AT&T, Warner Bros. and others. We spoke to OnLive founder Steve Perlman, a well-known serial entrepreneur, about the investment (which wasn’t quantified) and some of the implications if OnLive or startups like it are successful.