All multiplayer titles heading to Xbox One will have dedicated servers at their disposal thanks to Xbox Live Compute. This news comes from Microsoft's director of marketing Albert Penello. In a thread on video game forum NeoGAF, Penello confirmed that all game developers will be able to take advantage of Xbox Live Compute, Microsoft's cloud service, for cloud processing, game saves,...
Netflix is offering a $100,000 in prizes to those who can advance the technologies of Cloud Computing. There may be no hotter term in the world of technology right now than Cloud Computing. Even if you don’t understand the concept, it impacts pretty much everyone who uses a computer these days, and those of you who watch any form of streaming media such as that offered by Netflix are...
If you were too distracted by Apple's sneaky marketing tactics on Tuesday, Google did in fact have a keynote at Mobile World Congress. You didn't know? Executive Eric Schmidt put himself in front of a Barcelona crowd where much of the focus was on what the future holds for technology as a whole. "Technology could advance in ways that are unimaginable today," Schmidt said. As an example...
In this very special episode, Jon R is back to tackle some more questions from viewers and fans while strolling through the halls, walkways, and cubicles of the TechnoBuffalo office. Your inquiries about holiday tech shopping, iPads, Android devices and so on are all answered while you get an MTV-like "Cribs" tour of where the TechnoBuffalo magic happens. When is the Xbox 720 Going to...
Further moving forward on his diplomatic tour through Asia, Eric Schmidt excitedly advocated Google’s Chrome OS as a “high-profile” operation system for PC makers. Schmidt urged the industry to give the OS a try, repeatedly touting its fast boot up, no cost, virus free environment. Vendors, however, don’t share his optimism, believing that Google needs to make an effort to provide more...
In the tech world, you can forget everything you know about the scientific properties of a cumulus or cirrus formation, for here, cloud means “remote data storage.” This means you can store files in space, or on remote servers that will sync all of your devices together and allow you to share them. It seems as though everyone wants a piece of the cloud pie these days, but I went ahead...
Researchers at IBM's Alman researcher lab in California are reportedly at work on what, when completed, will be the world's largest hard drive. The drive, boasting a massive 120 petabytes (120 million GB spread out on 200,000 hard drives) will be capable of holding 24 billion MP3s when its all said and done, or up to 60 copies of the Internet archive Wayback Machine, which currently...
“This dramatic fastback concept signals a significant transformation of the Ford brand.” If Ford’s media kit is to believed, that single sentence is worth a thousand words and then some. A swoopy four-door fastback as a harbinger of Ford’s new global design language? Sign me up, man, sign me up! Ford today launched said fastback, the Evos Concept car, at IFA in Berlin, Germany. With a...
Would you want all of your medical records stored in a cloud? Patients in UK will be given that option next month, allowing them to have access to all of their medical records and giving them the ability to share those records with whomever they choose in real time. The cloud-based service is powered by Flexiant, a Scottish cloud software and services provider, and a pilot of the...
You know Apple‘s penchant for yanking apps? Well, it seems that the company’s shiny new iCloud features can bring them back to life for you. So if you no longer have that download of your favorite ousted iOS application anymore, you may be able to recover it by re-downloading it off your Purchased list. The word “may” is operative here: This doesn’t work for all of them. Engadget found...