By Michael Martinez
Amazon is such a tech colossus that it can't help but make headlines. It's the world's largest retailer, by market cap. And its chief, Je... Read More »
The largest data centers can consume 100 megawatts of energy—equal to the power consumption of 10,000 US households. As modern computing workloads, storage, and... Read More »
Internet co-founder Vinton Cerf, a Computer Society author and Google’s chief Internet evangelist, writes about how society faces a dilemma between a free Inter... Read More »
Since 2014, Apple has provided seamless end-to-end encryption for its iMessage and FaceTime services. While its services are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle att... Read More »
By Michael Martinez and Lori Cameron
Before Amazon became the juggernaut that made Jeff Bezos a household name, its recommender system was already helping cu... Read More »
A novel model of Internet access networks is proposed that relies on virtual machines to move cloud or Web content to nodes at the edge of access networks.
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Cloud computing, fog computing—the terms themselves reflect the hazy understanding people have of what those things mean. By way of analogy, imagine a central b... Read More »
Researchers dissect the challenges of building smart cities and outline the design principles and lessons learned from carrying out a flagship initiative on fog... Read More »
App stores challenge the Internet culture of openness and resistance to central authorities, raising the question of whether governance bodies could bring more ... Read More »
This article discusses how the impact of quality fluctuations caused by HTTP adaptive streaming can be reduced if video content's natural variability is taken i... Read More »