Microsoft And Yahoo Are Battling To Take Part In India’s Unique ID Project

It appears that both Yahoo and Microsoft are duking it out to help power the technology for India's Unique Identification project. Spearheaded by Indian tech czar and Infosys co-chairman Naden Nilekani, the project aims to assign every Indian citizen with a unique identification number that will identify him or her, similar to a U.S. social security number. This is no small task considering India's population of 1.2 billion citizens. It will involve a powerful technology to assign the numbers and a vast database to organize each unique ID. That's where Microsoft and Yahoo come in.