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OpenID Is Here. Too Bad Users Can't Figure Out How it Works The tipping point for the OpenID login standard is fast approaching, but it's still too confusing for mass acceptance. The web's biggest players -- Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, MySpace and Facebook -- are racing to solve OpenID's usability problem. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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OpenID Is Here. Too Bad Users Can't Figure Out How it Works The tipping point for the OpenID login standard is fast approaching, but it's still too confusing for mass acceptance. The web's biggest players -- Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, MySpace and Facebook -- are racing to solve OpenID's usability problem. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The XBRL mandate is here: Is IT ready? Given all the pressures IT is under, another compliance initiative may seem to be one too many. There is such a mandate: to submit financial reports using XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) tags. How much will the XBRL mandate add to IT's burden? At first, Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Major vendors join OpenID board IBM, Google, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo have joined the corporate board of the OpenID Foundation, giving a boost to the group's efforts to simplify the process of signing into Web sites.The OpenID framework Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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SAP users: Support debate isn't over SAP users say the debate over the vendor's recent decision to force all customers onto enterprise support is far from over and they want SAP to back up its claims about the service's added benefits with hard data. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Too good to ignore: Six alternative browsers When Microsoft, Mozilla, or Apple comes out with a new version of Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari, it makes news -- mainly because most of us use one or more of these three Web browsers. In fact, with the exception of Google's Chrome (which made a big splash, mo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Yahoo to support OpenID single sign-on People with a Yahoo user name and password will be able to use that ID information to access non-Yahoo Web sites that support the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework, reducing the amount of different log-in information people need to create, remember and enter onli Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Facebook: Too Creepy, Childish for the Workplace News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Ewwww, Google First Bytes: Yahoo, Google, S.F. Muni-Hacker Update, More... Holy Bottom Line, Batman! Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Bill Gates doesn't get a lot of credit these Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Facebook: Too Creepy, Childish for the Workplace News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Ewwww, Google First Bytes: Yahoo, Google, S.F. Muni-Hacker Update, More... Holy Bottom Line, Batman! Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Bill Gates doesn't get a lot of credit these Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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WiMax is here: What you need to know With the launch of Sprint's WiMax wireless broadband data service, called Xohm (pronounced "zome") in Baltimore in early October, Sprint was able to rightly claim it is the first carrier to offer the long-awaited official version of the technology to businesses and co Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Prototype unveiled for storing OpenID credentials MySpace, Flock, and Vidoop Tuesday unveiled a jointly developed a prototype tool that will let users store their OpenID credentials in the Flock social Web browser. Mozilla-based Flock allows users to monitor what is happening on their favorite social networks as they Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Yahoo tests support for OpenID Yahoo appears close to implementing OpenID, a Web authentication standard that relieves people of the need to remember multiple passwords to log into different Web sites.Yahoo controls a domain me.yahoo.com, wh Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft: CardSpace attack works but was too rigged Microsoft is disputing that its CardSpace authentication management technology can be hacked despite a research paper that outlines a proof-of-concept attack.CardSpace manages personal information that might be Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Some NAC users tout successes Security industry analysts and other market watchers are still working to understand the long-term viability of NAC (network access control) as a standalone technology, but some end-users contend that they are already seeing major benefits using best-of-breed tools. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft warns users of coming update to Windows Update Microsoft has announced it will upgrade Windows' update mechanism later this month, a warning that comes nearly a year after the company issued a similar upgrade without informing users.Last September, reports o Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Even Web-Savvy Users Are Befuddled by OpenID, Study Shows A recent usability study conducted by Yahoo suggests that OpenID is too confusing for mainstream adoption. A group of nine female internet users were left perplexed when asked to log in to a non-Yahoo website using their Yahoo-issued OpenID. Wired.com Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Even Web-Savvy Users Are Befuddled by OpenID, Study Shows A recent usability study conducted by Yahoo suggests that OpenID is too confusing for mainstream adoption. A group of nine female internet users were left perplexed when asked to log in to a non-Yahoo website using their Yahoo-issued OpenID. Wired.com Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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MySpace eases data portability policies, adopts OpenID Two well-known Web sites have completed implementations of MySpace's data portability program, which has also been modified to allow a degree of user data caching and storage by external Web sites and to support the OpenID single sign-on method, MySpace announced Mond Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Move over, Android: Here comes BlackBerry Bold Research in Motion doesn't mind stealing Android's thunder. Details about the long-delayed BlackBerry Bold, RIM's new weapon in the 3G battle, were revealed Wednesday -- yep, right smack in the middle of Google's G1 release day glory. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Would-be WiMax users find a shortcut Wireless users in Baltimore are standing politely in line to sign up for just launched Sprint WiMax service, called Xohm, pronounced "zome," at slightly better than the expected rate, according to Sprint executives. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |