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By: Hands-on: OnLive Desktop brings Windows 7 to your iPad | here's the thing

Hands-on: OnLive Desktop brings Windows 7 to your iPad | here's the thing — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:02:35 +0000

[…] soon, OnLive says.)What’s going on here? If you guessed that it’s something to do with the “cloud,” you’re right.You can run the full version of Microsoft Word with OnLive Desktop for iPad, but […]

By: Amazon’s new Kindles: What you need to know | here's the thing

Amazon’s new Kindles: What you need to know | here's the thing — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:58:01 +0000

[…] the bells and whistles on the Fire are nothing to sneeze at. Expect free and unlimited “cloud” storage for all books, movies, and TV shows purchased through Amazon, along with a new web browser, dubbed […]

By: How to view your Google Docs when you’re offline—or when Google Docs is on the fritz | here's the thing

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:41:51 +0000

[…] makes for an amazing productivity tool when it comes to storing and sharing your documents in the almighty cloud—that is, until an outage like the one Google Docs suffered on Wednesday afternoon left panicked […]

By: Apple’s new “iCloud” service: Your questions answered : here’s the thing

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:21:22 +0000

[…] and where is it exactly? Well, iCloud is what we call a “cloud-based” service (you can read up on what the “cloud” is right here) powered by a giant array of servers, all stored in a series of massive warehouses. But the actual […]