OnLive, better known for its gaming services, has launched a new service that allows you to have access to a virtualized Windows 7 machine, on your iPad.
The new service, dubbed OnLive Desktop Plus will give users access to most of the popular Windows 7 applications such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, Adobe Reader, and Internet Explorer (including Adobe Flash support) delivered on an iPad.
The new product will be billed at $5 per month and will allow users to get access to a …

The company behind virtual reality game Second Life has quietly sounded off its recent acquisition of gaming outfit LittleTextPeople. Linden Labs, the company behind Second Life, is perhaps best known for the game because it won an Emmy Award during the peak of its existence.
But as with many social experiences back then, the entry of Facebook proved a deal breaker as people opted for the the real world of social networks as well as simple social games such as Farmville and the likes. It …

Google Drive is nearing launch, according to some leaked images from a user who claimed they had seen the application pop up in their account. The cloud data service has been in the rumour mills for quite a while now with many mauling over what exactly Google will be launching.
This has been even more puzzling owing to the fact that Google Docs, Google’s document management application already functions very much as a cloud drive because it allows users to upload and share document, …

Cloud database service provider Rackspace is growing at a faster rate than anything on Wall Street. The company yesterday posted earnings that surpassed what analysts had predicted and this saw the company’s shares rise as much as 6% in intra-day trading.
The company reported a net income of $25 million up from $13.5 million while revenues soared by 32 percent to $283.3 million. This beat what analysts had predicted, which was a prediction of  15 cents profit and sales of about $281 …

Mozilla has just launched its roadmap for 2012 and one of the big issues in it is the Mozilla App Store that is soon to be launched. The Mozilla Roadmap, which itemises issues the organization will focus on, highlights the issues that Mozilla will be laying emphasis on going forward.
The Mozilla Apps 2012 Roadmap is one of these issues and targets a number of significant issues that Mozilla plans to target in the year. This includes “dismantling” the closed app store ecosystems …

Finding out what a company is like from the outside-in is difficult and complicated. From issues to do with confidentiality to getting in trouble with employers to lawsuits, no one wants to talk about their workplace while they work there. And what’s worse, for someone job hunting and applying to get into the company, this predicament becomes worse as you are unable to make an honest and fully informed assessment of the job.
Think co-worker personalities, reward systems, who gets credit …

Groupon has continued on its buying spree of fledgling social buying and e-commerce outfits with its latest acquisition being e-commerce startup Adku. Started one and a half years back by ex-Google employees who had branched out to set up their own startup, Adku uses a unique algorithmic method to craft shopping experiences in a so-called data-driven model.
This model is fairly new and this may be a big reason why Groupon have swallowed the bait. It’s however also interesting to note that …

Big data analysis company EvoApp has today announced the opening of a co-working space for technology entrepreneurs in down town Durham dubbed the EvoLab. EvoApp, which enables businesses to derive greater value from data through multi-point data parsing and analysis says the new co-working space has the potential to spur innovation and entrepreneurship in the area.
“Startups have unique needs: they function best when devoting all of their resources to technology and management—not …

In a trend that is common to Silicon Valley, top executives of a startup that was swallowed up by a giant have exited the company and joined another startup. Called the startup bug, this bug has recently bitten a number of top executives who had been assimilated into HP after the company they founded and were working in was acquired by by HP.
They have all now jumped ship and have found a new home at AlienVault, a startup that deals with the fairly new technology known as open source security …

The Microsoft BizSpark initiative was launched to foster web startups that use cloud resources to deploy their services. The service initially provided startups with very limited access to Microsoft’s cloud products and especially Windows Azure, which allows startups to build and deploy web apps over the cloud. However, in a recent announcement, Microsoft have  said they would be significantly increasing access to Windows Azure by providing startups with up to $60,000 worth of …