It has come to our attention via Mauricio that Microsoft's Windows Live Passport service is currently blocking new sign ups from any @gmail.com email addresses. The error message any user receives is "reserved domain" when... More...

Western Digital has released its new 250 GB Passport portable drives. WD Passports use 2.5-inch hard drives, allowing for their plug-and-play, ultra-portable design. WD announced last month that its launch of the 250 GB Scorpio... More...

Infineon Technologies said Monday it had landed an order for millions of data storage chips from the U.S. government, which will be featured in a new generation of electronic passports.The exact size of the contract... More...

Google have released the latest addition to their growing crop of online services. The latest entry is targeted at web developers who want a simple solution to user authentication. Similar to Microsoft's previous offering of... More...

Online auction site eBay will stop allowing users to sign in via their .Net Passport. In an announcement made earlier today, eBay stated that towards the end of January, users would only be able to... More...

Microsoft is recasting ambitions for its .Net Passport identification system, saying the service now will be limited to its own online offerings and those of close partners. Microsoft no longer sees Passport as a single... More...

The State Department is moving ahead with a plan to implant electronic identification chips in U.S. passports that will allow computer matching of facial characteristics, despite warnings that the technology is prone to a high... More...

Deutsche Telekom this week was forced to suspend all activities of its Online Business Service Operation Centre (OBSOC), a German version of the Microsoft's Passport system, which enables customers to order and pay for online... More...

Remember when Microsoft was going to be your trusted, omnipresent guide through the world of online commerce? That was the plan a few years ago, when the software giant began pitching its... More...

A number of MSN services were down for the second time in less than a week, and again, the company isn't identifying the cause. On Thursday, less than a week after a... More...

'Secret question' flaw could have let attackers reset passwords. Microsoft patched a hole in it's .Net Passport identity management service last night after a security researcher disclosed a potentially serious flaw that... More...

Microsoft security service said to allow some account hijackings. A newly disclosed vulnerability could let attackers reset passwords and hijack older Microsoft .Net Passport accounts, according to a message on an online... More...

A serious security flaw in Microsoft's Passport service put users' accounts, including their personal information and credit card numbers, at risk of being hijacked. The flaw, in Passport's password recovery mechanism,... More...

Thanks OrangeSoul...As part of its growing portfolio of .NET services, Microsoft will expose its Passport authentication service as an XML Web service this summer, officials said. The forthcoming Microsoft Passport Web Service, which will support... More...

The European Commission said on Thursday that software giant Microsoft had agreed to make "radical" changes to its .NET Passport system to ease concerns about data privacy posed by Internet identity systems. "Microsoft... More...

Microsoft .NET Passport Manager is a Passport single sign-in (SSI) service enable you to give consumers a quick, convenient way to sign in and make SSL-secured transactions securely on your site. In addition,... More...

A growing rift among members of the Liberty Alliance authentication project is placing the technology's future in question. At the core of the problem is exactly where to target the single-sign-on technology in the face... More...

Second time lucky ;) All Microsoft BetaPlace users: We are transitioning to a .NET Passport Single Sign-in Service for BetaPlace beginning November 20th. BetaPlace will be unavailable on November 20th at... More...

European Union (EU) regulators are not satisfied that Microsoft Corp's .NET Passport complies with data protection law. Regulators have said that while Microsoft has put in place measures to address data protection, elements of .NET... More...

The European Union is examining charges that Microsoft's .Net Passport system breaks EU rules on data privacy, a European Commission official said Tuesday. The official said he expected member states to make... More...

Microsoft have promised to make their Passport system work with a variety of technologies and they have even given an indication that they could be working with Liberty Alliance in the future. This is... More...

Thanks Bob for bringing this to my attention, he did, really :smart: "You are receiving this message because you currently have an application in Preproduction (DEV/TEST) for which the inline sign-in feature... More...

What if technology that could track your every move was embedded in your cell phone, your smart card and your laptop? And what if that information were tied to a database that stored personal information... More...

US govt evaluates Microsoft Passport for services The US Government is evaluating Microsoft Corp's Passport to verify the identity of American citizens, federal employees and businesses who access planned online services, a... More...

Sun Microsystems is putting some products and services behind its effort to consign Microsoft's Passport software to oblivion. Sun has long opposed Passport, which acts as an authentication gateway that lets computer users... More...

Once the Liberty Alliance was formed last fall, Microsoft's Steve Balmer believed that it wouldn't stand a chance against their .Net Passport (formerly known as Microsoft Passport) service. However, Steve Balmer was proven wrong... More...

Cheers me101 for this email he received from "Passport", shame I didn't get it :( Looks like at least microsoft are getting the right idea, any users who have a Microsoft passport account should be... More...

Microsoft's Zone gaming site appeared to be recovering Wednesday, a day after numerous consumers were shut out by glitches related to the site's switchover to the software giant's Passport identity-authentication service. In a notice... More...

Thanks to Andy Tolson for sending this in. Online game players using Microsoft's Zone site complained of persistent problems accessing the service Tuesday, as Microsoft required all users to switch to its Passport... More...

Microsoft has begun offering cash to people who use its online wallet and identity software, a little-noticed promotion that comes as a rival effort led by some of its bitterest enemies gains momentum. ... More...

At a panel discussion about online authentication systems featuring representatives from Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., the gloves stayed on until the last few minutes, when a pointed question from the audience about Microsoft's... More...

Microsoft today released this doc (actually it's a help file!) which is the .Net Passport SDK v2.1, (file dated 16th November 2001). Changes include details for the following features :-User control over the... More...

Hackers could steal credit cards from 'e-wallet' technology Microsoft Corp. acknowledged that its "Passport" technology for safeguarding Internet purchases has a serious design flaw that could have allowed hackers to steal credit... More...

Steve Ballmer, speaking to an industry group, dismissed rival Sun's efforts to compete with his company's Passport identity service as "craziness" built on a "weak foundation" on Wednesday. "I think what we... More...

Sept. 20 — Microsoft Corp. is modifying plans for its Passport service, inviting rivals and other companies to create a common way to use a single user name and password at sites across the Internet.... More...