Disney is also the only major studio not to support an initiative to offer movies in the digital cloud in an effort to boost online sales.
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As an object, the Constitution has more in common with the Dead Sea Scrolls than with what we now think of as writing: pixels floating on a screen, words suspended in a digital cloud, bubbles of text.
The digital "cloud" will take care you: back up your data, make it possible to get photos or information anywhere you need it.
To drive future growth, the company has a pipeline of products for solid-state drive controllers, digital entertainment, cloud computing and smart energy.
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Steam is a completely different monster in digital distribution and cloud storage.
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"Sony needs to show its next system is ready for the future, and this includes some crossover play with smartphones, digital distribution, cloud storage to help minimize the need for physical media and a free-to-play ecosystem that can bring in new gamers, " he said.
One of the factors mitigating this growth is the advent of storage of digital content in the cloud.
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Adobe has already put this in the cloud, with their Creative Cloud and Digital Marketing Suite offerings.
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UltraViolet is intended to allow a consumer to purchase movies from online retailers and have their movies stored in a digital locker in the cloud.
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The Paramount Movies app is a console based version of its Ultraviolet service already unleashed on the PC and iOS, letting users stream digital copies from their cloud libraries.
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Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang has a bold plan that could hollow video game consoles out, and place the powerful graphics processors used to power immersive digital experiences into the cloud.
Yet for all the positives that XOS Digital and ThunderCloud Recruit are providing to colleges in the form of digital resources in the cloud, which completely eliminates all the problems with having to deal with DVDs, hard drives, tapes and everything else, athletes will still be forced to send in their official commitments through a fax machine.
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The San Francisco-based company provides a cloud-based digital advertising management system.
Founded in 2007, comiXology has revolutionized the comic book and graphic novel industry by delivering a cloud-based digital comics platform that makes discovering, buying, and reading comics more fun than ever before.
Without such a provision, cloud-computing and digital-storage companies could be accused of abetting infringement.
Location-aware smartphones and inexpensive digital memory storage in the "cloud" of the Internet make the transition possible and inevitable.
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Founded in 2007 by experienced entrepreneurs from the digital media and security industries, Cloud Engines is located in San Francisco, California.
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But technology has helped services catch up, and now digital services are delivered efficiently from the cloud.
By 2015 10% of the digital universe will be housed in the cloud.
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Both companies have been granted patents relating to the selling or transferring of digital goods - but while both offer cloud storage services for music, neither has yet set up a reselling function.
But studios are still hoping to convince people to go back to buying DVDs with services like Ultraviolet which lets users store digital copies of their movies in the cloud and access them from anywhere at any time.
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Other digital media and process is already in the cloud.
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Some resources, such as digital storage, are actually more expensive in the cloud than their local equivalent.
"The ever-growing number of mobile and content capture devices using cloud services is fueling the growth of digital content, " according to John Rydning, IDC's research vice president, for hard drives and semiconductors.
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Exponential growth in digital information and greater adoption of newer technologies like cloud computing, big data and virtualization have contributed to growth in external storage systems, and EMC will be the biggest beneficiary with its stronghold in SAN and NAS markets as well as continued growth in unified storage.
As a result, consumers are prone to experience deteriorated performance such as choppy videos and slower load times, especially when streaming content from the cloud, smartphone or tablet to a digital TV. 5G WiFi dramatically improves home wireless range, providing higher-capacity video streaming, the ability to connect multiple devices to the network at the same time and broader coverage with fewer dead spots.
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Cloud-computing refers to the utilization of digital resources through the Internet, as opposed to holding data in in-house mainframes.
Amazon.com recently unveiled its Cloud Drive services that allow people to store digital music and access them from computers or Android devices.
AutoRip, which is only available in the US, will automatically keep a digital copy of eligible CDs in a customer's cloud storage account.
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