In 1992 when Visual Basic was just released, Epic made headlines with its state of the art thick client user interface based on Visual Basic.
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So the iPad user gets the iPad mail client, and the Android user gets the Android client.
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In every sector, innovative tech companies make their way into the value chain, focus on the most strategic point (usually client or user relationship), collect data, and leverage it to siphon off the profit margins from entire industries.
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The new client sports a new user-interface that emphasizes the discovery, playing and sharing of media to woo over more users.
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After satisfying the cloud that the user has access rights, the client is detected as an alien PC.
Twitter than calls back and gives the application a token (a random number, essentially), which says this client has the right to respond on behalf of this user.
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Increasingly, these devices look less like Windows PCs than a new breed of network client- simple, special purpose devices that access the user's data, applications and services on networked servers.
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The new model was peer-to-peer, where every user on the network acts as both a client and a server, sharing files and telling other users where else they can go to get them.
In other words, the user is running the server to interface with the client, rather than the other way around.
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For Check Point, Go Secure automates interactions between an end user's Web browser and a Check Point client to install certificates.
Today, client-server architectures have been replaced by browser-based user Web applications and the cost of computing has fallen dramatically which, along with cloud computing, have made scalability issue quite a different proposition.
The cloud storage service just resolved two of those common power user gripes in one fell swoop through an update to the desktop client.
This new model blended new technology, user-centric design principles, and process innovation to strengthen the bond between banker and client.
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Such networks provide the user little control when it comes to preventing third parties from accessing their mobile devices, client data, and even law firm networks.
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That said, for users running Microsoft Windows and using Outlook as their mail client, Microsoft's MSN desktop search beats its competitors hands down, primarily because of a superior user interface that integrates better with other Windows programs.
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