* Liberty Alliance holdout IBM ends resistance, joins * Microsoft scales back Passport ambitions * Google ranked as fastest grower * Intel developing optical connect for laptops, servers * Network World Fusion Radio: Hot wireless hotspots * Today on Layer 8
Two developments in the realm of identity management yesterday put momentum squarely behind the Liberty Alliance, a group of vendors that created specifications for handling user authentication information. The first came from IBM, which finally gave in and joined the alliance. Interestingly, the company had already found that it needed to use the specs to meet customer demand. Liberty Alliance holdout IBM ends resistance, joins http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1020liberty.html?net
Two developments in the realm of identity management yesterday put momentum squarely behind the Liberty Alliance, a group of vendors that created specifications for handling user authentication information. The first came from IBM, which finally gave in and joined the alliance. Interestingly, the company had already found that it needed to use the specs to meet customer demand.
Liberty Alliance holdout IBM ends resistance, joins
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1020liberty.html?net
Microsoft scales back Passport ambitions
The second development came from Microsoft. The company’s Passport authentication system, which was supposed to eventually go Web-wide, was held up as a competitor to what the vendors in the Liberty Alliance were working on. Now the software giant’s ambitions have been greatly scaled back. The final nail in the coffin was Monster.com dropping support – but in reality, Microsoft has been quietly dropping pieces of Passport for some time.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1020microscale.html?net
Google ranked as fastest grower
Search engine company Google has been named the fastest growing company in North America, according to a new ranking by professional services firm Deloitte & Touche.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1020goog.html?net
Intel developing optical connect for laptops, servers
Intel is developing an optical interconnect technology to replace copper ribbons in laptop computers and servers that should be ready for commercialization within three to five years, Justin Rattner, Intel senior fellow and director of the company’s systems technology labs, said in an interview in Tokyo.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1020inteldevel.html?net
Network World Fusion Radio: Hot wireless hot spots
Wireless hot spots are proliferating at an explosive rate. In-Stat/MDR predicts there will be some 200,000 hot spots around the globe by 2008, up from 43,850 last year. Joining the program to discuss the wireless trend is Amy Cravens, senior analyst at In-Stat/MDR. Listen now:
https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/1021radio.html?net
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