Gaikai offers its global cloud streaming network as a fully managed service and is live in 88 countries with top-tier partners.
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Agawi, formerly iSwifter, recently launched its version 2.0 to offer cloud streaming of all forms of games content-including social Facebook games as well as mid-core and hardcore titles-to all devices.
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The idea: Take a wireless cloud-streaming Sonos speaker, and toss in the ability to serve as a home theater soundbar.
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This is where the cloud-streaming service comes in.
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With access to millions of music tracks1 from the cloud based streaming service, Music Unlimited from Sony Entertainment Network2, consumers can also easily view and share their content on TV, tablet and PC with DLNA wireless connectivity.
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Established in 2008 and headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, Gaikai has developed the highest quality, fastest interactive cloud-streaming platform in the world that enables the streaming of quality games to a wide variety of devices via the internet.
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Onlive, a Cloud gaming startup, is one company which is attempting to remove the underlying requirement of powerful graphic processing by shifting it to Cloud and streaming the processed data to clients over a high speed Internet connection.
Agawi will be demoing their cloud-based games streaming platform on Windows 8 devices at the Cloud Gaming USA event in San Francisco next week, September 11-12, where Agawi will also be delivering a keynote speech.
ENGADGET: Agawi cloud game streaming headed to Windows 8, focused on 'mid-core and hardcore' games
"We are delighted to work together with Microsoft to bring Agawi cloud-based game streaming to Windows 8 via the Windows Azure platform, " said Peter Relan, Executive Chairman of Agawi.
ENGADGET: Agawi cloud game streaming headed to Windows 8, focused on 'mid-core and hardcore' games
But in the middle of all this was a change in the sky color itself that gradually clarified as an upward-streaming brown cloud risen from the earth, as if the world was turned upside down.
Amazon just launched a Cloud Drive for storing and streaming music.
UltraViolet is a common file format and digital rights authentication system designed to allow a digital copy of a film or television show bought from any vendor physical or electronic to be played on any one of 12 devices owned by up to six members of a household, either via download or streaming from the cloud.
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This is due to the continual decrease in the costs of on-line bandwidth, improvements in content compression, the proliferation of mobile viewing devices with smaller screens (and thus lower resolution requirements) as well as increased levels of cloud storage to support download and streaming markets.
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As a result, consumers are prone to experience deteriorated performance such as choppy videos and slower load times, especially when streaming content from the cloud, smartphone or tablet to a digital TV. 5G WiFi dramatically improves home wireless range, providing higher-capacity video streaming, the ability to connect multiple devices to the network at the same time and broader coverage with fewer dead spots.
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The other: On iPhones and iPads, Apple downloads the whole of any cloud-based song you're streaming, even if you don't want it on your device.
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Agawi, formerly iSwifter, recently launched the 2.0 version of its cloud gaming platform and provides its partners with content streaming solutions for all devices, from mobile to PC to TV.
ENGADGET: Agawi cloud game streaming headed to Windows 8, focused on 'mid-core and hardcore' games
Rovi Entertainment Store, which is helping a range of retailers, service providers, CE manufacturers, content owners, and PC OEMs to drive revenue from over-the-top (OTT) storefronts and cloud-based entertainment, has adopted DivX Plus Streaming as its preferred method of content delivery.
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Rather than streaming music from an anonymous server in the cloud, Audiogalaxy piped music (including playlists and album art) to your smartphone from your own home PC -- all this after returning from the ashes of its previous iteration as the best music file sharing service ever.
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"Google TV is an ideal platform for cloud gaming and we have tacked the obstacles to achieving low latency streaming game experience with multi gaming controller devices support on Google TV, " said Wesley Kuo, CEO of Ubitus.
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"Streaming content across numerous mobile devices, not just from the cloud but locally, has become a common practice for today's consumers, " said Bev Crair, general manager, of Intel's Storage Division.
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Users of mobile devices are streaming more content, and shipping more data for storage in the cloud.
Cloud Player for Web enables customers to easily organise their music, and gives both download and streaming options for playback.
As noted by Joystiq, trying to access your cloud saves is resulting in a 0x807b0198 error for many, although other parts of XBL like streaming video services and multiplayer gaming profiles are unaffected.
The deal is rumored to include the streaming of first- and third-party PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 games through the cloud, essentially making the PS3 backwards-compatible again (something the newer model eliminated from the equation).
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This is no half-hearted effort: Microsoft intends to compete in every variety of music consumption, including streaming, user-defined Internet radio, subscription-based music, an online music store and cloud-based music storage, taking on everyone in the market, including Pandora, Spotify and even Apple.
Ouya also has partnered with game-streaming site OnLive, meaning that some graphic-intensive games could be playable on the device via the cloud.
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