Daily Archives: February 16, 2011

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Google Announces One Pass Subscription Service

News

At Humboldt University in Berlin today, Eric Schmidt announced Google One Pass, a service that lets publishers set their own prices and terms for their digital content. With Google One Pass, publishers can maintain direct relationships with their customers and give readers access to digital content across websites and mobile apps.

Readers who purchase from a One Pass publisher can access their content on tablets, smartphones and websites using a single sign-on with an email and password. Importantly, the service helps publishers authenticate existing subscribers so that readers don’t have to re-subscribe in order to access their content on new devices.

More info: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/simple-way-for-publishers-to-manage.html

Microsoft Has New Plan For Making the Internet Safe

Internet

Speaking at the RSA Conference, Itworld reports Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney said that he no longer thought it was a good idea for service providers to be the ones on the hook for keeping infected PCs from the rest of the Internet.

“Last year at RSA I said, ‘You know we need to think about ISPs being the CIO for the public sector, and we need to think about them scanning consumer machines and making sure they’re clean and maybe quarantining them from the Internet,'” he said. “But in the course of the last year as I thought a lot more about this I realized that there are many flaws with that model.”

Full story: http://www.itworld.com/security/137159/microsoft-has-a-change-heart-how-keep-internet-safe