For older laptops, you can usually plug a wireless adapter card into the PCMCIA or USB socket. In effect, the router becomes an informal access point for the Internet, creating an invisible "cloud" of wireless connectivity all around it, known as a hotspot. Any computer inside this cloud ...
What we take for granted nowadays is that we can sit down at practically any computer, almost anywhere on the planet, and access an online information library far more powerful than any public library on Earth: the World Wide Web. Twenty-first century life is so dependent on the Web that ...
A VPS, or virtual private server, functions as a self-contained digital space within a physical server that is managed and owned by a cloud or web provider.
Cloud computing systems (the idea of using powerful computer services supplied over the Internet) are likely to play a very big part in the Internet of Things, not least because the amount of data collected from so many things, so regularly, is likely to be enormous. Who's using it ...
the cloud. Now we're all used to the idea that emails can be stored and processed through a server in some remote part of the world, easily accessible from a Web browser, wherever we happen to be. Pushing email off into the cloud makes it supremely convenient for busy people, constantly...