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The New York Times reports that “IBM, Google, Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo have joined the corporate board of the OpenID Foundation, giving a boost to the group’s efforts to simplify the process of signing into Web sites. The OpenID framework allows people to use a single user name and password to sign into sites that support it. More than 10,000 Web sites now support OpenID log-ins, according to the foundation. […] The closer links between OpenID and these major vendors is sure to help the foundation’s effort, according to its executive director, Bill Washburn. ‘The community has clearly expanded since the inception of the Foundation and these companies will help bring OpenID into the mainstream markets,’ he said in a statement.”
Wired has an interview with Linus Torvalds on "why users aren’t flocking to Linux."
Download Squad points out that “[t]here was a time when Facebook only came in one flavor: English. Well, no longer; there is now an option under ‘Languages,’ which you can get to via ‘Account,’ to change Facebook’s primary language to Spanish. Currently, there are about 2.8 million registered Facebook users in Latin America and Spain. Both regions will begin to load the Spanish version of Facebook by default starting on Monday, but users will have the option to change the default language back to English should the change be considered bothersome.”
According to the Mercury News, “Google’s mobile-phone operating system will go on display next week at an event in Barcelona, Spain, as the company seeks to challenge Microsoft and Nokia in wireless software. The program, dubbed ‘Android,’ will be shown on prototype devices at the annual Mobile World Congress event, Google spokesman Barry Schnitt said Thursday in an e-mail. It will be showcased by companies including chip designer ARM Holdings. Google is seeking to expand beyond Web searches on computers and to break the hold big phone companies have over which applications can run on which devices.”