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Microsoft Beefs Up Cloud Identity Services as Part of Mobile Push
As part of launching an Enterprise Mobility Suite, Microsoft announced that Azure Active Directory Premium was set to hit General Availability. Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium extends the free identity management and single sign-on service with additional group-management capabilities, rebranding options, security analytics, and more.
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Amazon re:invent roundup
Amazon announced a number of new services at the recent re:invent conference in Las Vegas: Amazon WorkSpaces - Desktop Computing in the Cloud, Identity and Access Management using SAML, Amazon AppStream - Delivering Streaming Applications from the Cloud, Amazon Kinesis - Streaming Big Data, CloudTrail - Capturing AWS API Activity, Postgres support in RDS and new EC2 instance types
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Apigee Now Supports Node.js and Open Sources Volos
Apigee Edge now supports Node.js and has open sourced Volos, a project containing a set of API management modules.
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Visual Studio 2013 Adds New Project Templates with Improvements and Social Accounts Authentication
The recently released Visual Studio 2013 includes new project templates with several improvements which enables developers to build projects and applications faster.
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Simplified Multiple Provider Authorization with OAuth.io
OAuth.io is an API and a service interfacing with more than 80 OAuth providers. This article contains an interview with Mehdi Medjaoui, Co-founder of OAuth.io, providing details on security, licensing and future developments.
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Tune Up Your Online Privacy with Clef
Clef is like a retina scan for your smart phone, which gives a whole new meaning to Retina Display. You can use Clef as an Open ID to log in from your smart phone only once to access many different web sites when online. Rather than typing in your user ID and password for each web site.
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Outsource User Management and Authentication with Stormpath
Most applications these days require user management, authentication, and authorization from the beginning and even a minor mistake can be disastrous. To help developers focus more on what the application actually does, Stormpath is offering turnkey user management and authentication services. Using these services, applications can authenticate users via a single API call.
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Multi-Factor Authentication For Windows Azure Hosted Apps
Microsoft recently announced preview of Multi-Factor Authentication in Windows Azure. This can be enabled for Windows Azure Management portal, Microsoft Online Services such as Office 365, as well as custom applications.
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Twitter API v1.1 with JSON and OAuth1.0a Support
The recently released Twitter API V1.1 ships with support for JSON and provides an ability to authenticate apps via OAuth1.0a.
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The Gospel of MBaaS- According to Anypresence Co-Founder (Part 2 of 2)
Part 2 of Infoq’s exclusive virtual interview with Anypresence cofounder Richard Mendis. The CMO weighs in on Facebook’s acquisition of competitor Parse and provides intel on the pricing structure of Anypresence.
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Google+ Sign-In: Federated Identity, Authorization and Semantic Activity Streams
Google+ Sign-In extends the Google+ social network into third-party websites, desktop applications and mobile apps. This service, announced on February 26th, provides features for authentication, authorization and activity sharing. There is also support for user engagement, hangouts and automatic Android app downloads.
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Powering Your Apps with Microsoft Accounts
A central theme with Windows 8 is the Microsoft Account. This is another attempt to offer a single sign-on system for both Microsoft and third-party services. Microsoft Account is available for Windows 8 apps, normal websites, Windows Phone, Android, and iOS.
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Windows Identity Foundation Now Included in .NET 4.5
Windows Identity Foundation, Microsoft's framework for integrating claims-based authentication into applications, is now part of the .NET Framework. It was created to simplify work with access control and authentication, and to allow for single sign-on across multiple applications.
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Google’s New IaaS Offering Runs Linux VMs in the Cloud
Google today disclosed details of Compute Engine, an IaaS offering that runs Linux VMs on demand utilizing Google’s cloud infrastructure. Google Compute Engine (GCE) supports 1, 2, 4 and 8 virtual core VMs with 3.75GB RAM per virtual core
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Ron Monzillo on Java Identity API and JSR 351
The Java Identity API provides a framework for representing and interacting with identity attributes in Java applications. Ron Monzillo, specification lead for JSR 351, the spec for this API, spoke at the JavaOne 2011 Conference last week about the JSR proposal scope, its current state and future plans for the specification.