Ma.gnolia.com, a popular social bookmarking site, added OpenID as an alternative method for new user registration in December, 2006. OpenID is a decentralized user-centric identity architecture that allows a user to use a URL based ID (think of it like a username) to log into a variety of websites.

Earlier this month, Larry Halff, founder of Gnolia Systems shared usage statistics of 5467 users that registered for new service between December 15 and January 31. No specific user data was provided.

Sample Sizing:  read more »

On February 6, at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Andy Rolfe of Authentify and Dr. Stephen Elliot of Purdue University presented the results of a study on Authentify's implementation of voice biometrics/speaker verification. It should be noted that this study should not be considered to be a statement on voice biometrics on the whole, but on a specific implementation of a a single vendor's hosted authentication solution.  read more »

On January 11, Government Security (a magazine and online site that promotes technology for the "protection of the homeland") published a piece entitled Majority of Americans support biometrics in IDs.

The results were interesting, if not necessarily groundbreaking.  read more »