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Sun's Liberty Gets US Government Backing
News The US General Services Administration and the Department of Defense on Wednesday announced that they will join the Liberty Alliance Project, which aims to standardise Web authentication. Liberty was launched in 2001 by Sun Microsystems as a way to...
[March 6, 2003, 10:32]
Sun Unveils Liberty-spec Server Software
News Sun released software that supports new technology by the Liberty Alliance Project, which on Monday released an online identification standard that lets people surf the Web without having to constantly re-enter passwords, names and other data at...
[July 17, 2002, 10:17]
Sun Releases Open-source Liberty Tool
News Sun Microsystems on Wednesday unveiled a new open-source software development tool designed to help businesses start testing and building online identification systems using the new Liberty Alliance standard.
[September 19, 2002, 13:49]
Liberty Alliance Unveiling Spec
News Sun Microsystems and its allies will unveil the detailed workings of their Liberty Alliance specification Monday, providing competition to Microsoft's Passport service for easing the hassle of logging on to different Web sites.
[July 10, 2002, 16:24]
Liberty Alliance Adds Tech Muscle
News The Canadian software developer joins a growing number of companies aligned with Sun Microsystems' Liberty Alliance effort. The Liberty Alliance Project added a new member on Wednesday, boosting its efforts to establish an online authentication...
[August 29, 2002, 10:01]
Liberty - Is Usability Compatible With Security?
News On Monday 15 July, Sun Microsystems, United Airlines and dozens of other members of the Liberty Alliance Project released version 1.0 of the Liberty specification. The Liberty Alliance project aims to simplify the process of signing on to multiple...
[July 16, 2002, 14:17]
AmEx Joins Microsoft Passport Rivals
News American Express joined the Liberty Alliance Project on Wednesday, boosting Sun Microsystems' effort to counterbalance Microsoft's Passport authentication system. Two weeks after the Liberty Alliance was first announced, Ballmer lambasted it at a...
[December 6, 2001, 9:26]
Sun Releases Liberty-enabled Software
News Sun launched Liberty in September 2001 as a way to thwart Microsoft's Passport authentication service, but the alliance and Microsoft have now achieved something of a detente. Sun Microsystems will release new software on Monday that takes...
[January 13, 2003, 7:50]
Financial Customers Get Liberty Software
News As Liberty Alliance partners such as United Airlines have gradually gained some of the control Sun had over Liberty, the debate has cooled down somewhat. A computer sign-on system used by many top financial services companies has been rebuilt...
[February 3, 2003, 10:57]
Liberty Alliance Expands Membership
News The Liberty Alliance Project gained five new members on Wednesday, boosting Sun Microsystems' effort to outgun Microsoft's Passport online identification system. The Liberty Alliance Project seeks to establish a standard method for online...
[May 29, 2002, 12:05]
Liberty-Passport Wars May End As Products Emerge
News After a slanging match between Microsoft and Sun over Liberty, Sun appears to be stepping back from the limelight, in the hopes that Liberty will no longer be seen as an anti-Microsoft alliance. At the launch of the first specifications from the...
[July 16, 2002, 14:46]
Intel Signs Up For Liberty Alliance
News Microsoft rival Sun formed the Liberty Alliance at the behest of Visa International. The Liberty Alliance Project, which creates security-related specifications, is expected to announce on Thursday that chipmaker Intel will join as its latest...
[March 17, 2004, 14:50]
Comdex 2001: Nokia Touts New Phone Standards Group
News In addition, the consortium plans to add features to authenticate phone users, and the leading candidate is the Liberty Alliance Project initiated by Sun, Pertti Korhonen, senior vice president of Nokia mobile software, said at a news conference...
[November 13, 2001, 10:04]
Liberty Alliance Demos Technology
News Proponents of the Liberty Alliance Project, a group developing online identity standards, provided details on Tuesday of their Phase Two specifications and demonstrated new features. Led by Liberty member Sun Microsystems, the "two protagonists...
[April 16, 2003, 9:57]
VeriSign Poised To Win Net ID Struggle
News Just as VeriSign struck a deal with Microsoft in July to join the software giant's .Net and Passport Internet software initiatives, so did the company announce, on Wednesday, its intentions to join in Sun's similar Liberty Alliance efforts.
[September 28, 2001, 9:28]
Australian Firm Claims First Java-Passport Interface
News But this is perhaps because almost everyone else is trying to replicate the whole of Passport, not just the client side, for example Liberty Alliance," said Weatherly, referring to the Liberty Alliance Project, spawned by Sun Microsystems in 2001.
[March 7, 2002, 8:22]
Showdown Looms Over Passport
News Borthwick and Schwartz also addressed the Liberty Alliance, a Sun-sponsored authentication service and rival to Passport. Although Microsoft has not joined the Liberty Alliance to date, Microsoft hopes to work with America Online, Sun Microsystems...
[April 23, 2002, 9:00]
Study: Customers Wary Of Online IDs
News In addition, the Liberty Alliance Project, a coalition formed by Sun to define single sign-on technology, will join the fray this summer by releasing its technical specifications. The Liberty Alliance has secured support from many major companies...
[April 26, 2002, 14:02]
Sun Takes On Passport With Hardware
News The system will be a foundation for the Liberty Alliance Project that Sun initiated, which governs how an authorization system can join with other systems so users get the benefit of single sign-on abilities, said Sun chief strategy officer...
[March 12, 2002, 10:05]
Deploying Mobile Web Services Using Liberty Alliance's Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF)
White Papers This white paper gives developers an overview of the Liberty Alliance's Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF) and discusses deployment strategies. The paper details solutions from Sun Microsystems and Nokia that enables developers to architect...
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