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Study: Customers Wary Of Online IDs
News A new Gartner study indicates that despite compulsory sign-up programmes, consumers aren't interested in online identity and authentication accounts -- such as Microsoft's Passport and AOL's Screen Name service -- and won't be anytime soon.
[April 26, 2002, 14:02]
Passport Switch Shuts Out Users
News In a notice posted on the Zone home page, Microsoft informed users that they must sign up for the Passport online identification service, a controversial element of the company's .Net online services push.
[December 12, 2001, 13:45]
Overture Founder Set To Unveil New Search Venture
News Insider Pages could also bring a more focused business model to online social networking, in which people sign up to meet new friends or date. Called Insider Pages, the Web site lets people sign up to connect with friends and mine their...
[October 5, 2004, 10:40]
Liquid Audio Starts Christian Music Download Service
News If they know that they can buy a CD online and burn it themselves instantly instead of having to go to the store to get it, especially if it's at a lower price point, then I think people will be willing to sign up" for the services, Benyola said.
[April 29, 2002, 8:38]
Survey: MS Passport Required, Not Wanted
News The more people sign up, the larger the audience for Microsoft's Web services and products. Passport competes with single sign-on offerings from AOL Time Warner and others. Passport authentication, which is a central element of Microsoft's .Net...
[April 18, 2002, 9:29]
Microsoft Takes Passport To Washington
News Passport is Microsoft's online authentication system, using a single sign-in to access multiple Web services. The groups, which include the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Junkbusters, faulted Microsoft for collecting, among other...
[August 23, 2001, 8:48]
Microsoft Revisits Passport With InfoCard
News When it pitched Passport six years ago, Microsoft envisioned thousands of online stores and other services using the system, which would let people sign on using the same username and password used for Microsoft services.
[May 18, 2005, 15:50]
US Report: Can Free-access ISPs Defy Gravity?
News Some of the services, including @bigger.net, charge a one-time access fee to sign up. But the value of such targeting may depend on a company's ability to sign up a large subscriber base. Free Web services are ubiquitous online, and although few...
[October 29, 1998, 9:55]
Microsoft Readies Office Live Beta
News In one sign of the demand, Nicolls said, more than 100,000 businesses have signed up for the test. All of those companies are being included in the test of Office Live, while additional companies can sign up on Microsoft's site.
[February 14, 2006, 12:35]
Outage Disrupts Microsoft Services
News The outage affected some customers who attempted to sign on to a personalized service linked to Passport, Microsoft's central gateway that millions of consumers use to access multiple Web sites or services.
[January 3, 2003, 8:56]
Passport Hits Industry Barriers
News Any efforts by Microsoft to convince customers that single sign-on was a big deal were undermined by a string of embarrassing glitches. The big promise of Passport was that it would simplify shopping by allowing folks to use the same sign-on for...
[March 23, 2004, 11:45]
Liberty 1.0 Launch Hints At OASIS Merger
News Services built on the specifications will allow "simplified sign-on", so that logging into one account at, say United Airlines, will authenticate a user for other sites, so that he or she will not need to log in again at, say, the Hertz online car...
[July 15, 2002, 17:24]
Liberty Alliance Adds Tech Muscle
News The Liberty Alliance was formed last September in response to Microsoft's single sign-on authentication system called Passport, which has already signed up more than 14 million users, according to research firm the Gartner Group.
[August 29, 2002, 10:01]
Windows XP Could Trigger Fight For Web Subscriptions
News In the second through sixth attempts to connect to the Net, Windows XP will implore consumers to sign up for something called Passport -- an identification technology that, in many ways, is a key to Microsoft's future.
[October 17, 2001, 16:57]
AOL Unveils 7.0 As Competition Mounts
News The battle has crept into numerous areas but increasingly pits AOL and Microsoft against each other in software development, from Web browsers to media players and more recently e-wallet and universal sign-on services.
[October 16, 2001, 15:38]
Comcast Lends Might To Rhapsody
News Because the market is young, any mainstream promotion is likely to educate consumers that digital music is available at all, whether or not they sign up for Rhapsody itself. The Comcast announcement is the latest sign that digital music is digging...
[November 10, 2003, 10:30]
Brace Yourself For IM Spam
News Because many consumers sign on to peer-to-peer systems with no idea that they're publicising their music tastes to the world, for example, industry watchers say this makes them sitting ducks to marketers, who can for the first time assemble...
[February 19, 2001, 7:44]
The Folly Of Single Sign-on
News Advocates of such services would have you believe that these are "user-enabling" technologies, but the truth is that any technology, including single sign-on, that requires you to relinquish control of your personal information is a risk.
[June 3, 2005, 13:00]
Apple Extends .Mac Sign-up Deadline
News Well, I'm still torn, but I'll likely make the 11th hour decision to sign up for .Mac (for this year anyway)," Padraja wrote in an email. Apple does offer those who sign up for a full .Mac account to add additional email accounts for $10 a year.
[September 30, 2002, 10:45]
Want To Capture A .com? Get In Line
News But people can sign up for domain names through multiple companies, known as registrars, that work with VeriSign to assign Web addresses. Under the new service, one person at a time would be allowed to sign up for a domain name.
[January 7, 2002, 10:47]
