“IBM and Novell on Monday are expected to announce an
open-source response to Microsoft’s forthcoming InfoCard identity
management technology.“The companies plan to contribute to an open-source initiative
code-named Higgins Project. The project aims to help users manage
the plethora of Internet logins and passwords by integrating
identity, profile and relationship information used across
authentication systems used on the Net…”
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