Want to store your digital songs, movies, TV shows, books and video games on a computer or mobile device?
No problem.
The real trick these days is pushing all that content onto the Internet so it can follow you from device to device, eliminating the need for storage altogether.
But while a flurry of major companies — from Amazon.com Inc. to Time Warner Cable Inc. to GameStop Corp. and others — are beginning to deliver technology to give you instant access to all your media from any device, some of the creators of that content are trying to tap the brakes.
"Content owners are a little hesitant to jump into this new model because it is disruptive to their distribution models currently in place," said Laura Allen Phillips, research analyst for Dallas-based Parks Associates.
The dispute revolves around the notion of "cloud computing," a buzzword for the idea that your digital material isn't stored on a hard drive in your laptop or iPhone.
Instead, you keep your data in online computer servers that are accessible anywhere you can get an Internet connection.
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Source: therepublic.com
By: Victor Godinez
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