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Rent
This questionable process used by some gaming worlds, means that the player loses all equipment garnered by their characters, unless they only disconnect in approved areas within the world, and pay a substantial fee in world-currency each time. Supposed to encourage longer play to pay the fees.
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(23/05/2010)
Cloud computing used to be one of those wispy technical phrases that was hard to define. Was it a new name for outsourcing? A different kind of computer network? Or just marketing nonsense?
But the overcast outlook is beginni...
(02/02/2005)
un Microsystems has launched a pay-as-you-go service which will allow customers requiring huge computing power to rent it by the hour.
Sun Grid costs users $1 (53p) for an hour's worth of processing and storage power on syst...
(11/03/2010)
In an industry first, a new gaming service will start allowing people to "stream" popular games over the Internet in June, similar to checking Web-based e-mail or listening to music online.
OnLive Inc., launched a year ago ...
(17/12/2008)
UMass Dartmouth Physics Professor Gaurav Khanna and UMass Dartmouth Principal Investigator Chris Poulin have created a step-by-step guide to building a home-brewed supercomputer that can reduce the cost of university and general computing r...
(30/12/2008)
Alex Wrottesley, a budding media entrepreneur who owns the Near software company sees an opportunity to improve the online shopping experience and offer something different. He?s pushing an ambitious new scheme to duplicate online the real-...