WhitePages also offers a caller ID service for Android phones that was initially free, but later converted to a paid app.
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"Digital certificates are required for connection to the RRP service, but user ID and passwords are required to initiate a session, " explains Rick Wesson, an IETF member and a senior software engineer at Alice's Registry Tools.
Vamosi says that instead of paying for an ID theft prevention service, users should check their own credit every three months or so.
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On 28 October, Microsoft announced that it was starting technical trials that would lead to all the users of its Windows Live service being enrolled in Open ID in 2009.
Nick Scales, chief executive of Avecho, said net service firms could set up a caller-ID type system very quickly and easily.
According to sources, the alleged prostitutes -- the youngest of whom were in their early 20s -- signed in at Hotel Caribe in Cartagena, where Secret Service members apparently stayed, flashing their local ID cards.
Upgrades to the SpareOnePlus include a location-based service which identifies the exact location of the cell ID, accessible through a free smartphone app, as well as audible numeric feedback which reads the number dialed and incoming calls aloud.
Last year Colorado adopted a particularly tough regime, including a requirement that all government contractors run new hires through E-Verify--an otherwise voluntary federal online service that checks if the Social Security or immigration id numbers that new hires provide are legit.
Particularly with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) involved: The Redmond, Wash. monopolist made a big early move to try to impose a standard for digital ID, offering a crude version of its Passport service in 1999. (Novell had the digital identity idea even earlier but couldn't find customers).
But more than 10, 000 Web sites now recognize a service called Facebook Connect, which enables users to use their Facebook ID and password to move fluidly among sites where registration is required.
William Heath, chairman of public service research body Kable, is one of the most outspoken critics of the ID scheme and argues the current way of accessing medical services is the best.
The suite of Wargaming titles will fall under the Wargaming.net service, which will allow players to switch from game to game seamlessly with a united ID.
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The IRS has dramatically ramped up its efforts to both curb ID theft and help victims (even, it says, at the expense of enforcement and service initiatives).
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The service has about 235, 000 users who access more than 700 internal applications, each of which requires a separate ID and password.
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