In writing about the latest version of Google's voice search that is now available for iOS devices, I came across many references to the differences between how Apple's Siri and Google's product ...

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Explaining the ongoing evolution from client-server to cloud-native, source of much confusion and misdirection when comparing SaaS offerings There are many definitions of software as a service (SaaS).

The primary function of a client-server system is to create a division of labor between a centralized server and the individual computers that are running your software. This model has a number of ...

(1) A communications network that uses dedicated servers. In this context, the term is used to contrast it with a peer-to-peer network, which allows any client to also be a server. (2) A network that ...

The growth of rich mobile and edge applications is requiring developers to build applications in new ways. Client-serverless is the way of the future. Today’s users expect the entire internet at their ...

An architecture in which the user's PC or mobile device (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN) or a ...