Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Houston – February 18, 2010 New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: eLINIA Streamlines Pan-European Infrastructure for European Online Music Industry Fixture PIAS News: Internap to Expand Data Centers in Silicon Valley, Houston News: HP Labs Opens Cloud Research Lab in Singapore News: NPO Open Identity Exchange Launches to Build Trust Online (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — With participation from industry leaders such as Google, PayPal, Equifax, VeriSign, Verizon, CA, and Booz Allen Hamilton, the Open Identity Exchange ( www.openidentityexchange.org ) launched as a non-profit organization dedicated to building trust in the exchange of online identity credentials across public and private sectors, and has gained approval by the US Government as a trust framework provider. With initial grants from the OpenID Foundation ( www.openid.net ) and Information Card Foundation ( www.informationcard.net ), the first official OIX trust framework now meets the requirements set forth by the US Identity, Credential, and Access Management Trust Framework Provider Adoption Process established by the US General Services Administration.