[France] Kwaga, which offers a semantic email organiser, has announced that users of its Kwaga Birdseye product can log in without handing over their Gmail password.

That's because the service now supports Google's newly rolled out implementation of the OAuth standard, a first for a European company, says Kwaga.

The Paris-based startup was one of a number of third-party developer testers who worked with Google's Eric Sachs and team to fine tune the implementation of the protocol for both Gmail and Google apps accounts within Kwaga.

The result is that subscribers to the service just need to type in their Gmail address, including Enterprise accounts (Google Apps for Your Domain) where they'll be redirected to the Gmail dashboard and asked to grant access without ever revealing their password..