Posts Tagged ‘password’
"Trusted Companies" to Bring Greater Usefulness to Yahoo Mail
Yahoo has announced that the Yahoo Mail API now allows Read and Read+Write access to full message contents for any type of user. What this means is that developers can create more useful ways to use Yahoo Mail. “Say a company builds a tool that sends users a text message alert whenever their boss e-mails them,” says Risher
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"Trusted Companies" to Bring Greater Usefulness to Yahoo Mail
Gmail Opens Up To Apps With OAuth Support
Sharing one’s password is considered a huge security sin; a recent Symantec survey made clear that telling it to even a boss or spouse is verboten.? Gmail users may be glad to hear, then, that Google has figured out a way to encourage the creation of Gmail-related apps without asking everyone to compromise on the password issue. A post on the Google Code Blog explained, “[I]t is more secure for the app developer to use the industry standard protocol called OAuth which enables the user to give their consent for specific access without sharing their password.? Most Google APIs support this OAuth standard, and starting today it is also available for the IMAP/SMTP feature of Gmail.” An outfit called Syphir has already taken advantage of this feature to improve its SmartPush app for the iPhone, and you can view the result below
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Gmail Opens Up To Apps With OAuth Support
