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TJS start a Google 'Wave'

TJS have been taking advantage of their preview invites to sample the potential of Google Wave. With invitations as rare as hen's teeth, TJS staff have been 'Waving' with each other and a few other friends / contacts also lucky enough to test out the concept. Here's what we've discovered so far:

Extended Validation Secure Certificates

The security of data in transmission between the user and the website is only part of an SSL certificate's purpose. Equally important is the confidence that you really are dealing with who you think you are.

A tale of accessibility: Internet Explorer and the Noscript Tag

In our ever increasing quest to make our sites accessible, we often investigate new ways of developing a rich interface without impacting on the original functionality. This usually involves developing an unobtrusive Javascript solution.

PCI DSS Compliance deadline

SagePay, one of our payment gateway partners has informed us that Visa and Mastercard have pushed for a 30th September PCI DSS compliance deadline (if you didn't get to see our recent blog article about PCI DSS compliance you can see it here). The rollout dates do vary from bank to bank.

Fast and Responsive Flash: Loading Fonts on Demand

Embedded fonts can occupy as much as 100Kb per style, which can translate to several seconds of waiting on a slower internet connection. Fortunately, with a bit of work, we can persuade Flash to let us load in fonts as and when they’re required.

What happens when the 4.3 billion IP addresses are used up?

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is the unique numeric address that identifies a device on a computer network that supports the Internet Protocol. There are currently 4.3 billion unique addresses. Since the 1990s it has been a concern that, with the growth of the Internet, these addresses would soon be exhausted. 

With this in mind several solutions were identified, one of these was to create a new IPv6 128 bit standards based solution that would allow for 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses.

PCI DSS - E-commerce credit card security

The security of customers' payment card details has always been of the utmost importance but banks and the card industry are increasing the pressure on merchants to prove their compliance with the regulations.

All businesses that handle card data must comply with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) and there are penalties for non-compliance.

Google arrives in Lincolnshire. So what is Street View?

With the recent sighting of Google's Street View camera car in Lincolnshire, we look closely at the potential impact this may have on the area and our clients.