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Higgins In The News
News coverage of the Higgins project 2006-2008.
2008
- Technology Community Forms Information Card Foundation to Simplify Secure On-Line Digital Identity June 24, 2008
- Higgins participating in User-Center Identity Interop at RSA April 7, 2008
- Microsoft working with Eclipse on Vista, ID links March 19, 2008
- Microsoft's Sam Ramji, who directs the Open Source software lab at Microsoft, featured Higgins in his EclipseCON Keynote March 19, 2008
- Higgins folks and colleagues co-author Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) paper "At a Cross Roads: "Personhood" the Digital Identity and the Information Society February 29, 2008
- Higgins 1.0: Identity Management Solutions from the Eclipse Foundation February 28, 2008
- Higgins Project 1.0 Takes OpenID To The Next Level February 22, 2008
- Eclipse Higgins, a free user-centric identity framework February 22, 2008
- Eclipse Releases Its First User-Centric Identity Framework February 21, 2008
- Are National ID Cards Going to Snuggle Up with OpenID February 21, 2008
- Present and Future Directions in Identity and Security At EclipseCON on March 19 February 20, 2008
- Higgins Tutorial At EclipseCON on March 17 - Identity Management, Authorization and User Profiles: Higgins 1.0 and beyond January 29, 2008
2007
- Novell wins HP-IAPP Privacy Innovation Award for software it donated to Higgins. October 24, 2007
- Novell led Bandit Project launches "Control your Identity" campaign that uses Higgins. September 24, 2007
- Five Questions on the Global Impact of User-Centric Security. CSO Magazine article, September 20, 2007
- Digital Identity Systems Workshop September 20 in New York. Higgins Presentation and panel discussion, September 14, 2007
- Datasharing Summit September 7-8 in Richmond, CA Come see a new Higgins demo and learn about a new Higgins-based initiative, September 4, 2007
- Liberty Alliance IGF project to use Higgins. July 26, 2007
- Paul Trevithick to speak on Higgins at Fortune's iMEME Conference July 12-13 in San Francisco July 10, 2007
- Novell donates c++ information card selector to Higgins Project. June 27, 2007
- Burton Group Catalyst Conference Testing Ground for User-Centric Identity Management June 18, 2007
- Microsoft announces another Interop Specification Available Under Microsoft’s OSPMay 23, 2007
- Higgins demonstrations and presentations were given at the Internet Identity Workshop 2007 in Mountain View,CA, May 16, 2007
- Higgins to participate in User-Centric Identity Interoperability event at Burton Group Catalyst Conference June, 27 in San Fransisco, CA] May 11, 2007
- Mike Milinkovich spoke about Higgins at TII/Vanguard Conference on Identity & Trust February 21-22, Dallas, TX
- Interesting developments in open source user-centric identity MWD, January 29, 2007
- Bandit and Higgins Projects Bridge Multiple Identity Systems to Provide a Consistent Experience of Identity Novell, January 29, 2007
- Open Source Identity projects connect with Microsoft CNET, January 28, 2007
- Privacy and Identity Harriet Pearson, January 28, 2007
- IBM's Invisibility Cloak Forbes.com, January 26, 2007
- IBM donates new privacy tool to open source CNET, January 26, 2007
2006
- Higgins mentioned in Gartner's "Waiting to Catch the Personal Identity Wave", October 2006
- Made in IBM Labs: IBM Software to Safeguard Consumer Identity on the Web With "Identity Mixer" , IBM, January 26, 2007, IBM donates "Identity Mixer" software to Eclipse Higgins Project.
- Liberty Alliance to Host "Liberty 2.0" Event, PR Newswire, December 20, 2006
- Higgins lays out roadmap for open source identity project, Network World, September 14, 2006
- Higgins birds-of-a-feather session scheduled on Tuesday, September 12, at 4:30 in the Sierra Boardroom at DIDW.
- Panel on Higgins held at DIDW, September 13, 2006 in Santa Clara. Session was titled "On The Long-tailed Mouse Called Higgins - Identity And the Eclipse Project
- New Ways To Prove You Are Who You Say You Are Online, WSJ, August 3, 2007, (Note that Higgins is working on software that complements CardSpace TM )
- E-commerce and User-Centric Identity Management, ITSMWatch, July 14, 2006
- Berkman Buzz, June 23, 2006
- Passion, common vision drove Higgins to success, ZDNet, June 22, 2006
- Higgins Trust Framework makes it debut at Harvard ID Conference, ZDNet June 20, 2006
- Harvard Law's Berkman Center for Internet Society to host Identity-Mashup an industry wide conference on the future of open digital identity management, June 19, 2006
- Novell Enables Rapid Adoption of Identity Managment by Open Sourcing Key Technogies - PR Newswire, June 12, 2006
- Panel on Identity Frameworks at Catalyst June 14-16, 2006
- Novell brands its own open source religion - ZDNet, May 10, 2006
- Is there value beyond LinkedIn's 3 degrees of separation? - ZDNet Blogs, May 10, 2006
- The Many Players at IIW - ZDNet Blogs Digital ID World, May 3, 2006
- Higgins: an API for identity - REG Developer, April 12, 2006
- What Customers Really Want - Digital ID World - April 12, 2006
- ID techs and events all orbiting Berkman's Higgins Project - ZDNet Blogs, April 4, 2006
- Manage Your Identity Online - Tech Central, March 26, 2006
- Open Source Plan Secures Key Data - Enterprise Linux IT - March 20, 2006
- New-style security that values privacy - PC Magazine, March 15, 2006
- IBM, Novell and Parity Join Forces for User Centric Identity - Aberdeen Group, March 9, 2006
- Aberdeen Group, IBM, Novell and Parity Join Forces for User Centric Identity - News Trove, March 9, 2006
- Project 'Higgins" Provides Security for Long Tail of Open Source Market - DataBase Trends and Applications, March 6, 2006
- Tempist in a Teapot - Identityblog.com, March 6, 2006 (and other entries by Kim Cameron)
- Open Source Plan Secures Key Data - Network World, March 6, 2006
- The Impact of Emerging Technologies, Identity 2.0- Technology Review,March 6, 2006
- Higgins - What is it? - Identity and Access Management blog, March 3, 2006
- The Open Source Answer to Microsoft InfoCard - DevX News, March 3, 2006 (not the intent)
- What's behind open-source ID push? - ZDnet, March 3, 2006,
- Long Tailed Mouse Jumps OnBoard - Digital ID World, March 2, 2006
- Passport's heir gets open source competition - Builder AU, March 1, 2006 (not the intent)
- IBM and Friends Fight Identity Theft with Project Higgins - IT Jungle, March 1, 2006
- IBM, Novell unveil open source online identity management - CMPNet Asia, March 1, 2006
- Open Source ID Management Puts Users in Control - OSDir.co, March 1, 2006
- Open Source Higgins Project Takes on Microsoft's InfoCard - Enterprise Open Source, March 1, 2006 (not the intent)
- Eclipse Subproject: "Higgins" (aka ETF) -Eclipsezone, February 28, 2006
- IBM and Novell Join Open Source Federated Identity Project - Computer Business Review Online - February 28, 2006
- [IBM and Open-Source Allies Prepare to Take on MS' InfoCard] - Playfuls.com, February 28, 2006 (not the intent)
- IBM and Friends Tout Open Source ID Management - SearchSecurity.com, February 28, 2006
- Novell et IBM poussent le project open source Higgins - Securite, February 28, 2006
- IBM, Novell back secure online ID initiative - Custom PC, February 28, 2006
- PROJECT HIGGINS: Open Source Initiative to give people more control over their personal online information - Enterprise Software and servers, February 28, 2006
- Open Source Initiative to Give People More Control Over their Personal Online Information - Yahoo - Calibre News, February 28, 2006
- "Project Higgins" to give users control over personal info Online - DMEurope.com, February 28, 2006
- Ripples - Digital ID World Editor's Corner- February 28, 2006
- [IBM developing online ID system similar to Microsoft's Infocard] - Emerging Tech News, February 28, 2006
- IBM developing online ID system similar to Microsoft's Infocard - SeattlePI, February 28,2006
- Eclipse Nestled Higgins to Spawn Next Gen Security Software - Jax Magazine, February 28, 2006
- Building out the open source stack - Computer Business Review Online, February 27, 2006
- IBM-Led Project Aims to Build software to combat Identity Theft - WSJ, February 27, 2006
- IBM-led group backs new identity manager tool - InfoWorld, February 27, 2006
- IBM and Novell lead Challenge to Microsoft InfoCard - Enterprise Linux I.T., February 27, 2006 (not the intent)
- IBM Novell Lead Challenge to Microsoft InfoCard - Yahoo News,February 27, 2006 (not the intent)
- IBM Novell Lead Challenge to Microsoft Infocard - CIO today, February 27, 2006 (not the intent)
- IBM, Novell Unveil Open Source Online ID Management - Tech Web, February 27, 2006
- IBM takes on InfoCards with 'Higgins' - Beta News, February 27, 2006 (not the intent)
- IBM, Novell and Parity Contribute Code to an Open Source Initiative - Certification Magazine, February 27, 2006
- Open Source Initiative for Control of Online Personal Information - RealWoldLinuxBiz.com, February 27, 2006
- Harvard, Tech Firms Push Privacy - Boston Globe, February 27, 2006
- Open Source Initiative to Give People More Control - IT Observer, February 27, 2006
- Microsoft's InfoCard Draws Open Source Response - ZDNet, February 27, 2006
- Open Source Initiative to Give People More Control Over their Personal Online Information - Abend.org, February 27, 2006
- Open Source Initiative to Give People More Control Over their Personal Online Information - The Direct Marketing Association, February 27, 2006
- OSS Identity Management from IBM - Irish Dev News, February 27, 2006
- Project Higgins an Open Source Initiative - Technology News Daily, February 27, 2006
- Manage Your Own Identity Online - Internetnews.com, February 27, 2006
- IBM Looks at Online Privacy - Red Herring, February 27, 2006
- Microsoft's InfoCard Draws Open-Source Reponse - CNET, February 27, 2006
- Open Source 'Higgins' Project Takes on Microsoft InfoCard - eWeek, February 27, 2006 (not the intent)
- Project Higgins - Bob Sutor's Blog - February 27, 2006
- The Mouse That Roared - Mike Milinkovich's Blog, February 27, 2006
- It takes a village - IBM, Feburuary 27, 2006
- Open Source Inititative to Give People More Control Over their Personal Online Information - Noticias.info, February 27, 2006
- IBM Buck's Microsoft's Infocard - Security Pro News, February 27, 2006
- IBM takes on InfoCards with "Higgins" - BetaNews, February 27, 2006
- IBM and Novell annouce support for open source identity manager - Ars technica, February 27, 2006
- IBM leads challenge to InfoCards - Seattle Times, February 27, 2006 (not the intent)
- The Higgins Project the Open Source Alternative to Microsoft's InfoCard - Softpedia, February 27, 2006 (not the intent)
- Manage your own Identity Online - Internet News.com, February 27, 2006
- Open Source Inititative to Give People More Control Over their Personal Online Information - Linux Electrons, February 27, 2006
- Open Source Inititative to Give People More Control Over their Personal Online Information - CNN Money, Feburary 27, 2006
- Source Inititative to Give People More Control Over their Personal Online Information - Monitor Today, February 27, 2006
- Open Source Inititative to Give People More Control Over their Personal Online Information - Webwire, February 27, 2006
- Open Source Initiative to Give People More Control Over their Personal Online Information - February 27, 2006 - original press release