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Written by Jitendra Gupta of Karmaweb and edited by Richard MacManus Late last week AOL announced its support of the open identity system OpenID, for all 63 million of their

The OpenID Foundation is announcing this morning that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo! have taken seats as the organization's first corporate board members. OpenID is a protocol for authenticating

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/40_Million_France_Telcom_Customers_Get_OpenID'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Orange SA, a subsidiary of France Telcom, announced today at the Digital ID World conference in San Francisco that France

The REAL ID Act of 2005 is said by some to pave the way for a United States National ID Card and has come under heavy criticism from a wide

A new OpenID provider called LiquidID has just launched a service which offers email aliasing and redirection in addition to providing you with an OpenID. The aliasing service sits on

There were two sessions today on User-Centric identity at Web 2.0 Expo. I attended the first one etitled “Implementing OpenID”, which was conducted by David Recordon of Verisign and Brian

A study by digital communications agency @www, reveals that whenever possible, 61% of web users use the same password for all their online accounts, reports the Guardian. The survey also

OpenID, a technology that allows users to sign in to new supporting websites through a single trusted ID provider of their choice, is notoriously hard for non-developers to implement and

Yahoo! announced this morning that the company will authenticate the identities of its 248 million users if they chose to login to OpenID supporting sites with their Yahoo! ID. Like

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Bloglines_Makes_Announcements_Including_OpenID_Support'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Bloglines, the IAC owned online feed reader, made a number of different announcements this morning - most importantly that the