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OnLive sells company, lays off about 50% of staff

by Mike Schramm (Aug 21st, 2012)

Just in case you didn't hear over the weekend, the cloud computing service OnLive experienced a little bit of a crisis: On Friday morning, the CEO of the company spoke to staff to essentially tell them all that they were fired, and that the assets of the company were being bought by another ...

OnLive Desktop changes from Windows 7 to Windows Server 2008

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 10th, 2012)

When OnLive launched its virtual desktop service for the iPad, it was rapidly rebuked by Microsoft over licensing issues with the Windows 7-based service. The company has switched from Windows 7 to Windows Server 2008 R2 and is now in compliance, says a report in Ars Technica and a post from ...

Microsoft confronts OnLive over Windows desktop-on-iPad licensing

by Steven Sande (Mar 8th, 2012)

In January we had a first look at Onlive Desktop. The free iPad app provides a connection to a hosted desktop Windows environment, complete with Windows 7 and Microsoft Office. Well, according to a ZDNet post today, Microsoft believes that OnLive is in violation of licensing terms. Microsoft's VP ...

OnLive Desktop Plus out now, $4.99 a month for extra software and features

by Mike Schramm (Feb 24th, 2012)

OnLive Desktop originally went live back at CES earlier this year, and since then it's been making magic happen on iOS devices everywhere, whether you've used it yet or not. The cloud-based service provides a Windows computer packed with standard software, streamed right to your iOS device, ...

OnLive goes from gaming to Desktop and TV

by Mike Schramm (Jan 16th, 2012)

The folks from OnLive, who we met up with last week at CES, are understandably apologetic about the fact that the iOS app for gaming hasn't yet shown up in the App Store. But though they may be sorry it hasn't appeared, OnLive's Bruce Grove is still mum on what the holdup is all about, only ...

OnLive Desktop brings Windows 7, Office apps to your iPad

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 9th, 2012)

If you haven't heard of OnLive before, get ready to hear a lot more about them in 2012. The streaming company has been around for a few years, but is just now making some major inroads into streaming all sorts of services to your iPad. We've already covered the OnLive offering for Mac, ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Where's the OnLive App?

by Mike Schramm (Dec 23rd, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, More of a question rather than a tip, but with the App Store lockdown today, I presume OnLive's Player App will not be live in time for Christmas. I was thinking: Do you think Apple delayed approval of the app to maximize profits by sales over Christmas, including the ...

OnLive iPad app delivers console-quality gaming, custom touch controls

by Mike Schramm (Dec 7th, 2011)

OnLive is one of the most impressive gaming options out there -- it's a cloud gaming service with the games actually 'playing' on remote hardware. That may sound clunky, but it works like a charm. Instead of running the games from a local executable on your PC, Mac or console system (as you ...

OnLive iPad app now available, but doesn't support gameplay streaming yet

by Mike Schramm (Dec 7th, 2010)

OnLive has finally released an iPad app called OnLive Viewer -- but it probably doesn't do what you want it to quite yet. The cloud gaming service OnLive has been making a name for itself since it went online recently, by streaming live gameplay out to Macs, PCs and the company's official console ...

OnLive demos Crysis on iPhone, expects to go to iPad

by Mike Schramm (Feb 22nd, 2010)

OnLive was at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas last week, where they showed their game streaming software running on the iPhone again. This time they had Crysis going, and apparently the demo ran "fast and smooth." The way they do it is to run the game and render it all on a fast computer somewhere, and ...

OnLive claims to run gaming service on iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Nov 18th, 2009)

OnLive is a company that has been claiming to do the seemingly impossible -- they plan to set up a sort of "cloud gaming" console, where instead of hardware in individual houses (like we have now; you buy a console for your home), they'll have hardware over the Internet, and stream your game to ...