"Exactly 20 years after Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote the blueprint for the world wide web, the internet has become the host to a small number of dangerous WWMs – worldwide monopolies that sweep all before them with exuberant contempt for people's rights, their property and the past."

"MyID.is Certified Service offers the possibility to our users to prove their true identity to other users over the Internet.
"MyID.is Certified users store their certified identity information to the service and create a link between an Internet community and their verified true identity stored at MyID.is Certified. By getting your digital ID certified, the service will compare it from trusted data sources such as your bank info and public registers."

"The idea of you "owning" the data about yourself is both emotionally and intellectually appealing. This data, which ranges from the critical (your medical and financial records) to the theoretically trivial (what you buy and search for, and which Web sites you visit) defines, quantifies and describes your preferences, resources, habits and health. It is a proxy for you. It is also what every marketer in the entire commercial universe wants to get their hands on."

"While IBM and Cisco push the Open Cloud Manifesto to ensure standards that allow users to migrate around Web-based services platforms, the lack of domain-to-domain identity management may hinder the real-time interoperability and data exchange between hosted applications."

"We're nearing the still unknown release date for the Palm Pre, and new details are slowly surfacing. Sprint demoed the Pre's WebOS apps at CTIA, including PalmOS Emulator, Google Maps and Pandora. These look fantastic."

"At the Web 2.0 conference, Palm offered more details on the Pre's unique webOS and launched an SDK for developers. The company also revealed that the classic Palm apps will run on the Pre, so get ready to party like it's 2001."

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"International Business Machines Corp. has cut its intended takeover price for Sun Microsystems Inc. to between $9 and $10 a share, according to people familiar with the matter.
"Sun has agreed to accept a lower price in return for stronger commitments from IBM that it will complete the deal even if it faces intense regulatory scrutiny, the people added."

Research In Motion (RIM) announced the much-anticipated opening of its BlackBerry App World, coinciding with the kick-off of CTIA Wireless 2009 and a Wednesday morning keynote by RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis.
"The new store will open with a catalog of about 1,000 applications and will be open to future development from registered developers using the company’s recently released SDK.
"In comparison, Apple currently has approved and published about 15,000 applications at its store."

“There’s only 17 million iPhone handsets worldwide,” Clayman noted. “But it’s still one platform and you can release an app once and it’s marketed to all of those users instantly.”

"Vint Cerf, who many call the father of the Internet, says the future Web is all about expanding its reach to real-world, everyday objects."

"Hewlett-Packard Co. is considering replacing Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system with software developed by Google Inc. in some mini-PCs called netbooks"

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"With IBM rumored to have made a $6.5 billion buyout offer for Sun Microsystems, it appears the company that coined the phrase “The Network is the Computer” is in play. But no one should allow IBM to walk away with Sun — which is still rich with talent, technology and engineering chops — at that price. All IBM would do is sell it off in pieces and keep a few jewels for itself, essentially eliminating a competitor. Everything else is codeine-influenced pillow talk."

"The future of open source computing, and indeed, the future of computing in general, lies in cloud computing, according to Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO of Sun Microsystems."

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"The Microsoft® Federation Gateway is a new identity service that runs in the cloud—that is, over the Internet and beyond your corporate network domain. This gateway service sits between an organization or business like yours and the services that the organization wants to use."

"Microsoft is telling customers and partners that it has pushed back the final delivery date of its “Identity Lifecycle Manager 2″ from early 2009 to the first quarter of 2010."

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