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Biometric e-passports will be issued to 23 million Taiwan citizens by the second half of 2008, under the new National Identity System (NIS) developed by Hewlett-Packard.

Open source may have taken another step in becoming a considerable alternative to the old guard for enterprise routing.

Entrust Wednesday announced an online anti-fraud service that can be a source for information research as well as provide Entrust's fraud-protection and third-party risk-assessment services.

JBoss on Monday will bolster its open source middleware stack with the release of a JBoss-branded version of a formerly commercial transaction server. The company will also unveil a new business process management software and a rules engine.

InPhase Technologies Inc. is one step closer to bringing holographic storage drives to market. On Wednesday, the company plans to demonstrate the first fully functioning prototype of its Tapestry holographic drive, which the company expects to begin shipping next year. The drive will be demonstrated at the 2005 Storage Visions conference, being held in Las Vegas this week.

In a speech intended to serve as a wake-up call to anyone relying on the "many eyes" that look at the Linux source code to quickly find any subversions, the CEO of Green Hills Software Inc. last week reminded his audience how Unix's creator Ken Thompson installed a back door in the binary code of Unix that automatically added his user name and password to every Unix system - a secret he revealed only 14 years later.

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) on Wednesday announced ratification of Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) 1.0, which provides an XML-based framework for allocating system resources within and between organizations.

The Liberty Alliance on Wednesday is rolling out Phase 2 of its federated identity specifications, which enables identity functions for Web services.

"To boldly go where no man has gone before" may have been a good mantra for the space program, but it.s an unwise tack for your online business. When your customers visit your website, they want to know that security has been there before them. There is a way for you to provide them with that security: It.s called SSL. What is SSL?

The Liberty Alliance Project, which is developing Web technology to facilitate single-sign-on authentication, plans to support interoperability between its system and Microsoft Corp.'s rival Passport system.

Determined to nail down key security and interoperability standards, the broad base of support for official standards bodies is swelling to counter enterprise apprehension regarding Web services adoption.