Azigo Announces Release of I-Card Selector for iOS
Randolph, NJ. October 16, 2010
Sitrus is proud to announce that Sitrus team working for Azigo, Inc. has played a key role in releasing of Azigo I-Card Selector for iOS. Azigo I-Card Selector allows the user to utilize the Information Card on iOS devices and is now is available as a free download on the AppStore. Azigo I-Card Selector is based on open-source code from the Higgins Project. Sitrus has been a development partner for Azigo for the since 2006 and was deeply involved in the release of this product.
Azigo is leveraging a long history in the user-managed identity space, having done work for many customers including Google, Equifax, PayPal, the Better Business Bureau, and others. These new tools build on the open-source Higgins Personal Data Service (higgins-project.org). Azigo technology is also currently being rolled out by Mydex - mydex.org - in the UK.
Paul Trevithick, CEO and co-founder of Azigo stated that "The Web is ready for a paradigm shift that gives people a voice in determining how information about them can be collected, shared and used by the web sites they visit each and every day". In addition, "we intend to give individuals the tools to reclaim control of their data at the source - their PC, phone or other device - and to enable users to make this valuable information available to publishers and other companies they trust in return for free content and personalized services" added Trevithick.
To learn more about Information Cards, visit http://informationcard.net. To learn more about Azigo iCard Selector please visit http://wiki.eclipse.org/IPhone_Selector_1.1.
About Azigo
Azigo, Inc. - is a leading developer of user-centric, identity and personalization technology for the web and mobile devices. Azigo’s products provide visibility into the data collection activities of the visited web sites, and give people full control over what personal data to trade in exchange for offered benefits. With Azigo, web publishers, merchants, advertisers and service providers can establish a trusted, direct relationship with their users, gaining higher quality, opt-in data that can be used to improve personalization, service, conversion, and advertising.
About The Higgins Project
Higgins is an open source Internet identity framework designed to integrate identity, profile, and social relationship information across multiple sites, applications, and devices. Higgins is not a protocol, it is software infrastructure to support a consistent user experience that works with all popular digital identity protocols, including WS-Trust, OpenID, SAML, XDI and LDAP.
About Sitrus
Founded in 2001, Sitrus, is a well-established software service company that develops applications based on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. Sitrus provides development and maintenance of the SaaS applications, migration of legacy systems to SaaS platforms and development of the SaaS platform tools. Sitrus delivers software development solutions to companies in the fields of finance, telecommunication, manufacturing, energy conservation, security, identity management and enterprise integration.
Headquartered in Randolph, NJ, Sitrus provides its services via the cost effective resources of the Sitrus Software Development Center in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.

