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Rockstar unveils Touch Edition of ‘L.A. Noire’
Brett Molina

“The Touch Edition of the game, which will be available only through OnLive, is free to players who purchased a copy through the streaming game service.”

Touch-enabled L.A. Noire now available for OnLive Android app
Rick Henderson

“BAFTA Video Games Award winner L.A. Noire is now available as a fully touch-enabled experience on OnLive, so that it can be played through the company’s Android tablet application.”

OnLive’s Touch Version of ‘L.A. Noire’ Goes Live
Mark Hachman

“For OnLive, adding L.A. Noire is also a bit of a coup, as it gives the platform a top-tier title that began life on a console.”

OnLive Streams Microsoft Windows Onto Android Tablets Too
Cade Metz

“On Thursday, OnLive unveiled an Android incarnation of its eponymous OnLive Desktop—a mobile app that lets users access a virtual Windows desktop housed on servers in the cloud.”

OnLive Desktop Brings Office and Windows 7 to Android
Melanie Pinola

“This might lead Android tablet users to consider ditching their laptops altogether now that they can take along a virtual Windows 7 desktop wherever they go.”

OnLive Desktop hits the Android tablet
James Kendrick

“I was duly impressed with the iPad app and the service, and my testing of the Android app show it to be just as good.”

OnLive Desktop Now Available for Android Tablets
Adrian Covert

“Because Android supports mouse input, it brings a dimension to OnLive Desktop the iPad lacked, but still supports all the same multitouch gestures as before.”

OnLive brings Windows desktops in cloud to Android
Kevin Tofel

“This might lead Android tablet users to consider ditching their laptops altogether now that they can take along a virtual Windows 7 desktop wherever they go.”

For $5 a Month, the Speediest Net Connection
David Pogue

“This is jaw-dropping, extremely polished technology. It opens up a universe of software and horsepower that live far beyond the iPad’s wildest dreams — with no more effort on your part than a few taps on glass.”

First Look: Hands-On with OnLive Desktop Plus
J.R. Bookwalter

“We visited one of the most Flash-intensive websites we know of and were able to play games, watch videos, and browse around with the kind of speed that rivals using a desktop browser, all on our iPad 2.”

OnLive Desktop launches ‘Plus’ subscriptions, puts IE in your iPad
Sean Buckley

“The cloud powered browser’s full Windows experience finally gives the iPad full Flash compatibility, giving you the chance to feed your nostalgic need to watch cartoons check their email.”

Personal Tech: OnLive brings Windows, Flash to iPad
Edward Baig

“It is hard not to walk away impressed.” —Edward Baig

Ex-Apple Man Streams Flash Onto the iPad
Caleb Garling

“First, OnLive put Windows on the iPad. And now the free-thinking San Francisco startup has gone so far as to put Adobe Flash on Apple’s holy tablet.”

OnLive Desktop Plus Hands On: They Put Windows on My iPad
Mat Honan

“For $4.99 a month it basically lets you run full Windows on your iPad, and at blazing speeds to boot. This is the cloud done right.”

OnLive Desktop Pro for iPad launched: Adds IE support
James Kendrick

“I have been testing the new OnLive Desktop service for a couple of weeks, and what makes the Internet Explorer access so compelling is the sheer speed of it.”

OnLive Desktop Plus impressions: A Windows 7 desktop on your iPad, now with a browser
Jeffrey Van Camp

“Downloading attachments from email or the Web is also an alarmingly fast experience. A 50 megabyte file downloaded in about a second or two.”

OnLive Adds Cloud Browser to Virtual Windows Desktop
Mark Hachman

“Access to the OnLive backbone means that consumers should be able to browse the Web in a literal snap.”

OnLive delivers ridiculously fast web browsing on the iPad
Dean Takahashi

“A 50-megabyte file from cloud storage can be downloaded in less than a second. I watched that happen today and witnessed Flash games running on the iPad.”

OnLive Desktop Plus Brings Blazing IE Browser, Flash to iPad for $5 Per Month
Davey Alba

“OnLive has managed to make an already-impressive app even better with this latest iteration.”

OnLive Adds “Cloud-Accelerated Browsing” To Its Streaming-Desktop Stable
Devin Coldewey

“It can load files and display them to you in the video stream faster than you can load them on your own device.”

OnLive brings Internet Explorer to iPad
Chris Smith

“Regardless of how fast or slow, your home Wi-Fi connection is, OnLive Desktop Plus’ cloud-accelerated connection will dramatically enhance page-loading and streaming speeds.”

OnLive offers service to speed up Web browsing on an iPad
Troy Wolverton

“The new application could be revolutionary because it gives users of mobile devices access to applications and experiences they previously could get only through a full-blown PC.” —Michael Gartenberg, Gartner

OnLive Desktop Plus with Flash for iPad now in US, UK soon
Rick Henderson

“OnLive Desktop Plus offers much more, with priority access, and super-fast broadband, which you can use to browse or even download attachments from Webmail accounts.”

OnLive Brings Flash, Office, Speedy Connection to iPad for $5 a Month
Ian Paul

“With the addition of IE, you now have what amounts to a fully functioning desktop on the iPad, at least for short trips when you just can’t take a laptop.”

Working in Word, Excel, PowerPoint on an iPad
Walt Mossberg

“These are the real programs. They look and work just like they do on a real Windows PC. They let you create or edit genuine Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.”

Hands-on with OnLive Desktop: A Windows 7 Cloud Desktop on Your iPad
Davey Alba

“There hasn’t been anything like it before.”

OnLive Desktop: Full MS Office on iPad 2, no Windows required (review)
James Kendrick

“I have used other solutions on the iPad to access Windows systems, but this is hands-down the easiest.” —James Kendrick

Giving Windows on an iPad a Boost
Nick Wingfield

“Users will be able to create and edit documents in those applications on their iPads and store them online, using the two gigabytes of free storage OnLive will provide people.”

Why OnLive’s Windows-on-iPad App is Revolutionary
Farhad Manjoo

“Think of OnLive as a bridge between the PC world and the post-PC era.”

CES 2012: OnLive Desktop for iPad Brings Full Windows Experience
J.R. Bookwalter

“Multi-touch gestures respond instantly and smoothly, while HD videos, animations and PC video games—never before usable on a remote desktop – play seamlessly.”

OnLive can turn your iPad into a remote desktop with live-streamed MS Office apps and more
Dean Takahashi

“The cloud service is potentially disruptive to a number of different parties in the documents ecosystem.”

OnLive Brings New Form of Windows to the Cloud
Don Clark

“The technology makes use of touch features in Windows 7 that are not widely used, Perlman says. For example, an iPad user can use gestures to pinch and pull apps like Excel in ways that most people can’t on their laptop or desktop PCs.”

OnLive Desktop gives iPad owners the gift of Windows
Ricard Bilton

“With OnLive’s new desktop app, Windows, the iPad, and the cloud all work together as one.”

Now OnLive Is Putting Windows in the Cloud
Harry McCracken

“OnLive also plans to bring Desktop to Android tablets, smartphones, PCs, Macs and its own MicroConsole … it would give you a Windows environment you could get to from nearly every computing device you own.”

CES 2012: OnLive brings Windows 7 to Apple iPad
Mike Snider

“Video game streaming service OnLive is showing that it’s not just about fun and games.”

OnLive Desktop Brings Windows Applications to the iPad
Andy Chalk

“The new OnLive Desktop will bring full-featured, remotely hosted Windows applications like Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint to the Apple iPad.”

OnLive moves beyond games with Windows 7 iPad app
Tom Curtis

“With the new Onlive Desktop app, users will be able to stream to their iPad a handful of Windows 7 applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as a handful of utilities and touch-control games.”

OnLive Desktop brings full Windows apps to iPad
Rue Liu

“Instant-response multi-touch gestures combined with a full on-screen Windows keyboard and handwriting recognition will make it easy to view and edit even complex documents directly on the iPad.”

OnLive brings cloud gaming to Google TV
George Wong

“As if working on living room consoles, tablets and computers wasn’t enough – the company has now announced that OnLive will soon be available on Google TV.”

OnLive Viewer Hits Google TV, Full Gaming Capability Potentially On The Way
Matt Burns

“Google TV needs content. Onlive has content. The match is perfect.”

OnLive gaming app comes to Google TV devices
David Katzmaier

“Finally, a unique and worthwhile “app” comes to Google TV.”

OAll Google TV Devices Just Got OnLive Game Streaming
Jason Chen

“Good news for Google TV fans who want games: OnLive, the game streaming company, is going to be on all Google TV devices starting now.”