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We've recently been discussing a project where one of the concerns was to tighten up on user authentication. The customer raised the concern that by expecting the user to enter just a user name and password that the proposed web application wouldn't be secure enough for the confidential nature of their data, as such an alternative security technique was wanted.
HTML 5 has been getting a lot of coverage over the past few months in both the IT press and blogs, with most of the browser manufacturers now committing to support parts of it, no doubt in some cases just to score a few headlines. But what does it all mean for us as businesses at a practical level today?
I'm finding the ongoing row between Apple and Adobe quite fascinating, with both making some interesting points. I must admit I don't use either companies products apart from Flash and Acrobat Reader (and I avoid QuickTime as much as I possibly can), I think both companies products are expensive for what they are. Although having said that I can't find fault with the design and quality of Apples hardware and there are no tools which equal the likes of Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
"We have access to too much information." I'm sure that if I'd said that 100 years ago I would have been considered a little odd, and if I had said it to Copernicus, Da Vinci or Galileo they would thought it extremely bizarre perhaps even considering me a little mad.
Over the past few years one of the drivers of the adoption of computers into everyday life has been the invention of the myriad ways that we can communicate with others through our computers. Of course at the root of this revolution has been the internet and the increasingly easy way in which we can connect to it at ever faster speeds.