Open-source ID Tool Awaits Microsoft's Go-ahead
News That did help the Higgins project, but developers say that wasn't enough to help them deliver all the features they hope to. Developers working on the Higgins project want to create a tool equivalent to Microsoft's Windows CardSpace, but fear the...
[March 12, 2007, 7:39]
Open Source InfoCard Rival Gets Heavyweight Support
News The companies plan to contribute to an open source initiative code-named Higgins Project. The Higgins Project will complement InfoCard in providing client software for operating systems other than Windows, Nadalin said.
[February 27, 2006, 15:50]
Open-source Projects Link To Microsoft System
News The interoperability with Microsoft that is being shown off at the RSA Conference is a major step towards that, said Mary Ruddy, a Higgins project leader. The Higgins and Bandit open-source projects are claiming a milestone in the development of...
[January 29, 2007, 8:17]
Novell Plugs Bandit For ID Management
News These include the Liberty Alliance's protocols and specifications and Higgins, an open source project backed by Novell and IBM. Higgins is meant to give people more control of their data when they do business online.
[June 12, 2006, 9:00]
NAO: How To Get Government IT Right
News Challenges do remain for government in implementing public sector IT projects — the biggest of which is the embedding of best practice, said director general John Higgins. In the report, released last Friday, the National Audit Office (NAO) laid...
[November 20, 2006, 8:48]
Government Joins Push For IT Professionalism
News The group, which also includes John Higgins, director general of public sector IT supplier body Intellect, is due to meet in June. Following recent high-profile IT project failures, there has been a rapid understanding of the need to improve the...
[May 11, 2005, 16:30]
Government Confirms ID Partner
News After the meeting, John Higgins director general of industry body Intellect said: This is an ambitious, long-term project, which will be introduced incrementally over a number of years. The UK's ID card programme now has its private-sector...
[May 25, 2004, 13:25]
Top Microsoft Exec Calls It Quits
News In recent months, former company hot shots such as Nathan Myrhvold and Pete Higgins decided to leave the company. Long before that cameo role, he was one of the key executives who helped guide the software maker's entry into the database market...
[June 13, 2000, 8:55]
Microsoft: The Next Quarter Century
News Microsoft's PC-era heyday -- led by the likes of former Windows and Internet Explorer champion Brad Silverberg and Office and Interactive Media chief Pete Higgins -- is over. The 11-year Microsoft veteran has been a behind-the-scenes guy ever since...
[September 4, 2000, 14:22]
Satellite 'sentinels' To Help Fight Climate Change
News John Higgins, director general of IT industry association Intellect, added: "The perceptions of this topic are quite different around the world. A European project to monitor the continent's climate from space could provide a boost in the fight...
[November 13, 2007, 13:13]
Project Trawler: Cyber Crime In The UK
News NCIS analyst Oliver Higgins admits the possibility of a 'cyber mafia' exists and that exploiting illegal gambling, fraud and money laundering on the Net is a real possibility, though some way off. Project Trawler -- the National Criminal...
[June 22, 1999, 17:05]
