Thursday, March 03, 2005


Liberty Focuses on Mobile Web Services
February 14, 2005
By Clint Boulton


The Liberty Alliance Project released Mobile Business Guidelines 2.0, a document for describing how service providers can deploy secure mobile Web services.

The Mobile Business Guidelines document addresses issues such as quality standards, risk management, liability/dispute and resolution policies for those offering single sign-on and Web services via handheld computers, smart phones and laptops.

The publication of the schema was made in time for 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, where the notion of being able to access Web services safely via will be a major topic.

Software makers such as Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems, and others are intent on expanding the adoption of Web services, application-to-application communication that enables users to purchase goods securely via the Internet.

But the software needs some service providers and wireless operators to use the Web services infrastructure and applications written by the software companies, enabling them on mobile gadgets to spur Web-based purchases for mobile commerce.

This is a step in the right direction. Those operator wishing to accelerate their Liberty/SAML  deployment should look at http://dv3.agileco.net/eTRUST


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MBOA, WiMedia Alliance Merge UWB Organizations. The two leading industry groups for ultrawideband merge: The Multi-Band OFDM Alliance and the WiMedia Alliance are merging their two groups to align goals more fully and reduce the number of acronyms and institutions. The two groups' have very similar general technology goals for UWB, and this leaves Motorola and Freescale even more in the lurch as the personal area networking (PAN) focus of WiMedia and the consumer electronics focus of MBOA come together. Both groups work with the IEEE, the 1394 Trade Association (wireless 1394 or wireless FireWire), and the Wireless USB Promoter Group within the USB Implementers Forum. The merger announcement is scheduled for this afternoon at an Intel conference.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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