Question

Tim is listening to music from an online music provider (such as Pandora). He creates a list of his music preferences, and the music service uses his list to suggest additional songs that Tim might like. This music service is an example of a cloud-computing application that uses collaborative filtering technology.

What is the name of this type of technology?
Bit-torrent
Software as a Service
Crowdsourcing
Grid computing

Answer 1

Software as a Service is the technology that has been used here in the given excerpt.

Explanation:

Software as a service is a model in which the software is distributed through a third party who will host the application software on the internet through a web interface medium called website.

This website will be the front end where the application will be given a service. The provider will take care of the performance, security and availability of application over a cloud based computing technology.

The main advantage of this service is saves time, cost and user friendly usage and maximise the profit.