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Microsoft pushes standardized SSO at RSA

[Updated: 9:40 AM] Bill Gates and Microsoft kicked off the 2006 RSA conference in San Jose this year, and a key part of their message was identity federation using the WS-Federation standard. The WS-Federation Web Services standard was created by IBM, Microsoft, BEA Systems, RSA Security, and VeriSign to...

Tags: Company-A, WS-Federation

Blog posts 2006-02-15

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

Additional Resources

The power of standard protocols

I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part in our approach to unified messaging. This has meant that I have had to build, in-house, our...

Tags: IM, Jabber, Protocol, XMPP, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days

Novell took a lot of heat from open source backers for executing an interoperability pact with Microsoft in late 2006 but the partnership -- strengthened with a new $100 million investment from Microsoft today -- is probably looking sweeter to mixed IT shops these days. Why? Because of recent...

Tags: Novell Inc., Interoperability, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Virtualization, OpenOffice, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Storage, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Top Russian Internet advertisers: Ford, MTS, Megafon, GM, Vympelkom

Mindshare Interaction published a list of top advertisers in Internet sector in Russia Federation, compiling the data for the first half of 2008. Ford Motor Co led the way with $4.6 mln spending, followed by Russian mobile operators MTS and Megafon, then by US automaker General Motors, another mobile operator...

Tags: Mobile Operator, Automobile Company, General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., Advertiser, Internet, Manufacturing, AM

Blog posts 2008-08-13

World's first wind-powered vehicle race

World's first wind-powered vehicle raceKewl but sorta done already.Sorta like sailing, but without wind, your dead in the water, guess you could pedal.. lolRE: World's first wind-powered vehicle raceNot even the first LAND vehicle, wind powered race. The ice boats on Lake Geneva WS. were racing at 40+MPH, 50 years...

Tags: first wind powered vehicle, wind powered vehicle

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs

Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million bail, perhaps to something closer to the bail set for common murderers ($1 mil.) In her written...

Tags: Password, Network, Backup, Terry Childs, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Deal With Errors in XML Parsing: Handle Errors in XML Parsing With SAX

With the ease of XML parsing in the newer Java language APIs, from JAXP to JAXB to JAX-WS, XML parsing has become foundational to Java programming. But with the abstractions and higher-level APIs comes an apparent loss of control over the fine-grained interactions between a parser and the XML data....

Tags: Java, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

White papers 2008-07-22

An history of bilateral teleoperation

In case you're not familiar with the concept of bilateral teleoperation, this is just a way to remotely control robots. Two researchers have written a technical paper which covers more than 50 years of history of bilateral teleoperation. This paper has just received the 'Automatica Best Paper' in the survey/tutorial...

Tags: Moon, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-die

Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-dieAmerica is finishedThis latest downturn coupled with the internet and lax foreign ownership laws means that the devaluation of housing, which would normally ultimately let poor Americans back...

Tags: industry, Big 3, sales, therapy, Saturn

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Progress Software continues SOA buying spree with Mindreef acquisiton

I took my first briefing with Mindreef, given their neighborly proximity, about three years ago. The seasoned team had a hit on their hands with SOAPscope, and their timing in the SOA market was great. But I'm not sure the company grew as was hoped, and perhaps the fast evolution...

Tags: Acquisition, Progress Software Corp., SOA, Mindreef, SOAPscope, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Mergers & Acquisitions, Middleware, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Eclipse 2008 release train arrives at Ganymede

Eclipse 2008 release train arrives at Ganymedecomparison to netbeans?I keep hearing really good things about netbeans... is there a comparison between the two?RE: Eclipse 2008 release train arrives at GanymedeEveryone know Ganymede was destroyed in the Inter Galactic wars. Leaving the Doctor as the lone survivor.Depends on your needsI jumped...

Tags: Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Eclipse, Ganymede, Eclipse 2008

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do With Silverlight 2 (Part 4 of 6): Web Services Support (Level 200)

Microsoft Silverlight 2 has a robust networking stack, and it supports Representational State Transfer REST, SOAP, WS, HTTP endpoints, and even cross-domain networking. This webcast examines how to implement calls to Web services from the Silverlight 2 Microsoft .NET-connected applications using a variety of methods, including standard ASP.NET Web Services...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Web, Microsoft Silverlight, Webcast, Web Service, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight 2, SOAP, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2008-06-23

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 5: Faster, smarter search

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 5: Faster, smarter searchagreei have to agree Vista search is excellent and extremely fast. I have been using version 3 and up on my XP machine at work and it always trumps other search indexers like Google Desktop. This is one example of MS doing a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Backups, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows Vista, smarter search, Fixing Windows Vista, Part 5, Microsoft Windows XP, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Build your own Google

In an earlier post I talked a bit about a start-up called Kickfire who are releasing an accelerated database appliance for MySQL applications in the 1TB-3TB range that gives comparable performance to an equivalent Oracle RDBMS setup for around a quarter of the price. Kickfire sounds compelling for utility...

Tags: Google Inc., Worker, Aster, Aster Beehives, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-05

New Identity & Access (IDA) Technologies in Windows Server 2008

Identity and access is the critical piece in a connected infrastructure of an organization and has become a means to increase security, decrease operational costs, satisfy regulatory requirements, and deepen their electronic relationships with customers and partners. This webcast talks about the technologies that Microsoft has developed into the next...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Identity, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems

Webcasts 2008-05-29

Hammering a dual quad-core Xeon system

Hammering a dual quad-core Xeon systemexcept those MPEG-2 still take up 2-3 times more HD space...as the MPEG-4 for the same quality... if you are actually going to take the time to rip all your DVDs... for me it was about 400 DVDs, you might at well take the time...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Digital video, Digital media, Media players, Digital music, quad-core, Try Super, Archos, DVD

Discussion threads 2008-05-26

It's the economy stupid – collaboration ROI

With today's news that oil has reached $135 a barrel – a 100% increase in a 12 month period – it's clear that there are some serious economic challenges ahead. A liter of unleaded in the UK today at 114 pence ($2.25) is equal to $8.50 a gallon in...

Tags: Collaboration, ROI, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Analyst: vendor issues still dog Service Component Architecture

Web services guru and consultant David Chappell, who has been somewhat skeptical about Service Component Architecture SCA, says the specification is starting to gain traction. However, there are still nagging issues around the ways vendors are supporting component development within the SCA framework. Over the past year,...

Tags: Service Component Architecture, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-17

Linux's biggest victory so far - Splashtop to ship on ASUS motherboards

In what I think is the biggest victory for Linux so far, DeviceVM's Splashtop Linux desktop will ship across the entire P5Q range of motherboards, with more to follow by the end of the year. DeviceVM, the award-winning developer of Splashtopâ„¢, today announced the proliferation of their innovative software...

Tags: ASUS, Motherboard, Model, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-14