There are several advantages and a couple of drawbacks to remote server-based systems.
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All questions and answers are transmitted by text message between mobile-phone users and a remote server that concocts imaginary dates.
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Snapshots of the user's acoustic patterns were sent to a remote server, where the user's emotional state would be calculated by a machine-learning system.
It becomes a technical challenge, involving latency, compression and robustness, to shift the relationship from home PC and handset to always-on remote server and handset.
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Unknown to users, the worm connects their PC to a custom IRC channel when they are logged on to a remote server while surfing the Web or reading e-mail.
FakeSecSuite, appears as a red, green, blue and yellow shield icon and drops a Trojan that steals incoming text messages and device information, shipping them off to a remote server.
It could turn on your camera and GPS and stream feeds to a remote server, enabling cyber-criminals to corrupt privacy settings and steal your most sensitive data (including passwords, contacts and transactions).
Streaming video, which enables the viewer to play a file that resides on a remote server, was believed to be a less desirable method of delivery, because the picture quality was often inferior.
This way if your PC is lost or stolen or destroyed in a deluge or conflagration, your data will be stored safe on a remote server waiting for you to get yourself sorted out.
And when you are performing the equivalent action on Siri, your device is passing that information to a remote server which is processing the request and then returning an answer, in pieces, back to your device.
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As Kaspersky found out, it wasn't just scamware, but a trojan: the title would swipe the contacts after asking permission, send them to a remote server behind the scenes and text spam the daylights out of any phone number in that list.
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Instead we, like most of our clients, are using these devices to connect into our server via Remote Desktop.
If they need access to our systems or networks we just provide them with a remote desktop connection to our server.
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Or setting up a private cloud using tools like Remote Desktop so that all of your data is on one server instead of spread around multiple workstations?
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One of these services, video-on-demand, stores programming on a central server, where users can access it at the click of a remote.
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The second breakthrough is the MyKOSS server, designed to link wirelessly with STRIVA products and connect them to remote Internet broadcasting sites.
Other software works on ways to transform applications while minimizing risks like compliance or dependence on the software by a remote department, then put it in a cloud environment, untied to any particular server if that is appropriate. (This stage is where the Microsoft part comes in.) Afterward, there is a security assessment, checking software for security attacks in real time.
For most of the years we had a server in the basement of my house and we all connected to it using remote desktop.
And armed with Citrix remote access software, they can run the same Windows apps a laptop can, just off a server.
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