* Breaking news from Catalyst * Late news from Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference * Upcoming trade shows * Free Network World Technology Tours
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A group of Liberty Alliance members, including Vodafone Group of the U.K., this week is demonstrating services that comply with Liberty’s federated identity management framework. At the Burton Group’s Catalyst conference in San Diego, Vodafone is showing off a service that allows users to log on to Vodafone’s portal Web site, find a photo-printing service and arrange for photos to be printed and shipped. Based on a user’s privacy settings, the service will hand various pieces of information to the selected third-party printing company.
Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer ended the company’s annual partner event by rallying the troops to head out and convert Novell and IBM Lotus Notes users to become Microsoft fans. Microsoft is hoping for big things from its channel business after boosting its investment in partners by $200 million to $1.7 billion this fiscal year.
* NEWS FROM CATALYST, SAN DIEGO:
Marriage of components called key to security, 07/19/04
Regulatory and security pressures are fueling a rush to turn directory, identity and other network infrastructure services into components that provide a reusable security layer as part of a service-oriented architecture.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/071904catalyst.html?nl
Liberty Alliance adds Oracle, preps technology demo, 07/19/04
The Liberty Alliance trade group announced several new members Monday, including Oracle and Sharp Laboratories of America.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0719liberallia.html?nl
* LATE NEWS FROM MICROSOFT WORLDWIDE PARTNER CONFERENCE, TORONTO:
Ballmer tells partners to go out and ‘Win, win, win!’, 07/15/04
CEO Steve Ballmer has one clear assignment for the company’s partners: Go out and win deals!
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0715ballmtells.html?nl
Microsoft’s ISA Server 2004 hits the streets, 07/14/04
Amid a concerted effort to heighten the profile of its security offerings, Microsoft Tuesday announced the availability of its Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0714microisas.html?nl
* UPCOMING TRADE SHOWS (Aug., Sept., Oct.):
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
Aug. 2-5, San Francisco
https://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO04A
SCO Forum 2004
Aug. 1-3, Las Vegas
https://www.caldera.com/2004forum/
SHARE (IBM user event)
Aug. 15-20, New York
Intel Developer Forum
Sept. 7-9, San Francisco
https://www.intel.com/idf/us/fall2004/systems/index.htm
DEMOmobile 2004
Sept. 8-10, La Jolla, Calif.
https://www.idgexecforums.com/demomobile2/index.html
Sun Network 2004 Conference
Sept. 14/16, San Francisco
https://www.sun.com/sncsf2004/
Telecom Negotiation Conference
Sept. 27-28, San Diego
https://www.ccmi.com/conferences/negotiate/
VORTEX 2004
Oct. 4-6, Santa Barbara, Calif.
https://www.idgexecforums.com/vortex2/index.html
TECHXNY (formerly PC Expo)
Oct. 5-7, New York
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2004
Oct. 17-24, Orlando, Fla.
https://www.gartner.com/2_events/symposium/2004/asset_59607_1395.jsp
Fall VON (Voice on the Net)
Oct. 18-21, Boston
CTIA Wireless & Entertainment 2004
Oct. 25-17, San Francisco
Digital ID World
Oct. 25-28, Denver, Colo.
https://www.digitalidworld.com/
Storage Networking World, Fall 2004
Oct. 25-28, Orlando, Fla.
* FREE NETWORK WORLD TECHNOLOGY TOURS
Watch this space for the full line-up of Network World Technology Tours coming to a city near you. On the cards for September will be events about VoIP and messaging/spam, while November is security month.
