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Sun: Chasing after (and may catch) the open source DReaM: In March 2006, in a podcast interview with ZDNet, Sun president and COO Jonathan Schwartz dropped a hint that his company had something in the works that was very much like the Liberty Alliance (in the way that it undermined the usage of proprietary identity management systems like Microsoft's Passport),...; Tags: Dream, Sun Microsystems Inc., Tom Jacobs, digital-rights management; Blog posts 2006-04-14
Samo samo for SAML: no Microsoft: The Liberty Alliance Project just announced that products from IBM, NEC, NTT and RSA Security have passed the SAML 2.0 interoperability testing that the consortium has been sponsoring. (ZDNet report here.) However, it looks like Microsoft won't be coming to this party any time soon. The software giant won't even...; Tags: WS-Federation, SAML; Blog posts 2005-11-21
Liberty Alliance eases way for stronger ID checks: Liberty Alliance eases way for stronger ID checksnot needing a password.. in a password based world..with so many password revealing attacks leveraged via phishing/xss/sql injection/dns cache poisoning.. crypto based password tokens are going to be de-facto..More VaporwareLiberty Alliance defeated M$ Passport, but how? Neither one has developed anything. LA...; Tags: Liberty Alliance, password, ID Checks; Discussion threads 2005-11-09
Building Internet identity systems: Today was the first day of Internet Identity Workshop, a two day gathering of people interested in identity on the Internet. I've got detailed blog posts and pictures at my site. Unlike many gatherings, this workshop has very little "vendor" content, although there are certainly vendors there. ...; Tags: Internet Identity, Liberty Alliance, identity; Blog posts 2005-10-26
Liberty Alliance takes on ID theft: Liberty Alliance takes on ID theftSolution to problem is o so simple ...Its simply a matter of the credit reporting and financial services industry finally coming to grips with the novell concept that a consumers personal information ACTUALLY DOES BELONG TO THAT CONSUMER and not to the corporate mavens who...; Tags: INTERNET, identity theft, Liberty Alliance; Discussion threads 2005-06-13

Converging federation standards?: Key members of the federated identity specification and standards gangs—OASIS, Liberty Alliance and the IBM/Microsoft led WS-* --met at Digital ID World 2005 today to discuss their different approaches to deriving specifications and the possibility of convergence.Moderator Mike Neuenschwander of the Burton Group tried to locate any sensitive areas among...; Tags: specification, standards, George Goodman, Shewchuk, John Shewchuk; Blog posts 2005-05-11
Liberty Alliance update steps up security: Liberty Alliance update steps up securityOh wow, really?these guys actually DO something? Coulda fooled me . . . I guess they did! :)Really?Hey Rog, maybe you could help them out. I'm sure that they need a know it all.; Tags: Liberty Alliance, security; Discussion threads 2005-02-11
Federated identity's new advocate: Federated identity's new advocateLiberty Alliance = OpenDoc?Time was, the trade press including me wrote pages upon pages about Open Doc as an Apple-sponsored alternative to the evil Microsoft's OLE/ActiveX. Then Apple found it had bigger fish to fry and pawned off OpenDoc onto an independent, Component Integration Laboratories. (I've still...; Tags: Liberty Alliance, identity federation; Discussion threads 2005-01-18
Around the Digital ID World: Digital ID World host and editor Phil Becker kicked off the conference asserting that digital identity is the common organizing principle for integration, management and security. Without a core focus on identity management, the notion of distributed, networked computing and service-oriented architecture falls apart. "As perimeters dissolve, applications get ever...; Tags: Liberty Alliance, identity management; Blog posts 2004-10-26
IBM jumps into Liberty Alliance: IBM jumps into Liberty AllianceHow many years do you need to understand - we need Open Standards NTNTPassportClosepartners = Hotmail; Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Liberty Alliance, IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2004-10-21
One down. One to go. IBM joins Liberty Alliance.: After years of resisting the invitation to join, IBM has finally climbed aboard the roster of the Liberty Alliance as not just any type of member -- but as a managing board member. In becoming a member, IBM joins a long list of companies that reads like the who's who of...; Tags: IBM Corp., IBM Joins; Blog posts 2004-10-20
Liberty Alliance captures seven new members: Liberty Alliance captures seven new membersHeck, I thought this was a dead horse.Go figure...Ah, so well I rememberAll those lectures you gave us on how resistance was futile and we all [u]would[/u] be assimilated. Why, you were as certain that Passport would take over as you are that non-IE...; Tags: Web browsers, Liberty Alliance; Discussion threads 2004-10-18
Deal boosts Liberty Alliance: Deal boosts Liberty AllianceMicrosoft is slowley losing out in their attempt to push proprietarystandards that require Windows on the client, server, or both. Little bit by little bit, fewer things require Windows, and that is bad news for Microsoft.; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Liberty Alliance, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2004-07-22
Liberty Alliance signs up Oracle, Intel: Liberty Alliance signs up Oracle, IntelLibertyThe names of this group makes me laugh my *** off every time I read it! Not that they're delusional or anything...; Tags: Liberty Alliance, Intel Corp., Oracle Corp.; Discussion threads 2004-07-19
Could patents jeopardize the Liberty Alliance's royalty-free nature?: Could patents jeopardize the Liberty Alliance's royalty-free nature?patents out of controlI hope that the patent backlash happens soon.testtesttesttestnew testtest!!!!new test 2!test; Tags: patent, Liberty Alliance; Discussion threads 2004-05-21
Intel to join Liberty Alliance: Intel to join Liberty AllianceNobody wants to play with MS...Liberty Alliance is a direct replacement for Microsoft's Passport (you know, the "service" that holds private information and was hacked into 40 minutes after its initial launch). Microsoft wants to have their hands in everything. They want your private...; Tags: E-mail, Leadership, SECURITY, Intel Corp., Liberty Alliance; Discussion threads 2004-03-17
Liberty Alliance debuts new standard: Liberty Alliance debuts new standardAs many will surely point out.It's not a "standard", it's just another concept of how it should be.Is this what Ballmer said "has zero chance of mattering" in October 2001 ??Is this the same Liberty Alliance which Ballmer said "has zero chance of mattering" in October...; Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft .NET, Liberty Alliance, Steve Ballmer; Discussion threads 2003-11-12
Developing and Deploying Secure Identity Web Services in a Federated Environment: The Liberty Alliance Project LAP defines specifications to address cross business web single sign-on (ID-FF) and provides a framework for building web services (ID-WSF). These specifications are by far the most comprehensive security framework available today to build secure identity-enabled web services. It addresses the need to build interoperable, identity-based,...; Tags: Web, Liberty Alliance, Environment, Web Service, Specification, Identity, Channel Management, Web Services, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software; Webcasts

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Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge: So does Google have anything up its sleeve, when it comes to the Android mobile communications platform? It better have. Because expectations keep getting lowered. And Apple keeps raising the ante, at least in getting attention for new mobile applications. According to a Forbes.com...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Android, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-24
How sick is Steve Jobs?: How sick is Steve Jobs?Not appropriate to ...discuss someone's health in a public blog. Privacy should remain private.how long before M$ goes belly up?with Gate$ gone, M$ is even in a worst position since he too was relying on brainless drones.RE: How sick is Steve Jobs?[i]Jobs has insisted to friends...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Steve Jobs, health care; Discussion threads 2008-07-23