It beams first to your computer, then to a secure server, which verifies you match your signing pattern.

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The eToys sites also offered "one-click" shopping, which allows customers to leave their credit card details once in a secure server and then make repeat orders with a single mouse click.

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Why would you want to copy and distribute dozens of plastic DVDs to people, if you had it available to you in a centralized server on the cloud, in a secure environment that was only accessible by the people who needed to have access to it?

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"An Ubuntu tablet is a secure thin client that can be managed with the same tools as any Ubuntu server or desktop, " said Stephane Verdy, who leads enterprise desktop and thin client products at Canonical.

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Yes, I realize that Microsoft has a 95% share of the office application market and its server and networking software is the most popular, secure and reliable out there.

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Enterprise customers constitute a huge proportion of its overall customer base that use its Blackberry phones to connect to its enterprise server and send secure encrypted messages.

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