Facebook, Linkedin and twitter discussions of the event utilize storage on remote servers (cloud storage).
Like many services, Evernote stores data on remote servers instead of the user's computer.
Cloud computing runs software applications on remote servers for clients without the need for businesses to make expensive hardware purchases.
However, sophisticated cyber attacks can be launched from anywhere in the world, and cover their tracks by using remote servers.
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Some even go beyond file storage to include built-in editing and collaboration tools that live on remote servers instead of on devices.
The "taken as read" prediction is the rise of "cloud computing, " which allows consumers to store data, and run apps from, remote servers on the Internet.
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For example vehicles are rarely hooked up to the internet or to remote servers, and therefore the computer processor already installed by the car manufacturer handles speech recognition.
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SimCity puts into sharp focus that the United States needs to institute an industry-wide return policy for video games that rely on remote servers and DRM to function properly.
CrashPlan backs up your newest files first on the assumption those mean the most to you, and it encrypts all files, so file names can't be read on remote servers or backup computers.
Then there is the worry that if remote servers crash or are compromised, data, ranging from family photos to financial records from a Fortune 500 company, could simply vanish into thin air, forever.
The cloud is designed to save hard-drive storage space for users by instead letting them store and retrieve documents to multiple devices from remote Web servers.
Before the program stops making use of the processor, it registers its change of activity with Windows Push Notification Services (WNS) - software that runs on Microsoft's remote computer servers.
Doherty points out that pay-TV subscribers also stand to benefit from lower energy use if they can swap their set-top boxes for devices without hard drives that connect to remote storage servers.
It indicates that most of the processing work - identifying people and other objects in view, and deciding what information to show about them - would likely be carried out by remote computer servers in order to keep the equipment slimline.
Naturally, it can be controlled by the Sonos app, but volume can also be toggled by your TV remote, thanks to the IR receivers on board and the remote codes stored on Sonos' servers.
For example, many of the zombie-based, distributed denial-ofservice attacks that occurred in February were traced back to benign networks which were merely unwitting hosts to remote-triggered Trojans located on their servers.
The company provides remote IT support to its customers and their servers are occasionally based here too.
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