Stories about: Prism

I'm continually amazed at how the premier Web properties are willing to share what they are doing. We get to peek behind the curtain routinely. Google and Yahoo both have good lab pages, but there's some seriously experimental stuff on the Mozilla labs page. Here's what they're up to.

Mozilla Labs, a research arm of Mozilla, has released software that lets users strip a Web application from its enclosing browser and then work with the app as if it were a traditional desktop program.

Despite filing for bankruptcy last week, Silicon Graphics officials said that users will get their products, service and support without change even as new product plans will move ahead. That message is an attempt to sooth worried users who rely on the company's high performance computing technology.

Log file search and indexing software vendor Splunk announced Tuesday that it will soon add systems management host, network and service monitoring capabilities to its software through a partnership with the Nagios open-source project.

Patch management vendor New Boundary Technologies is expanding the range of its software beyond Windows to answer user demands for cross-platform support that will address vulnerabilities, regardless of where they exist on the network.

Silicon Graphics (SGI) has launched the successor line to its Onyx visualization systems. Called Prism, the systems will be based on Intel's Itanium 2 processor and the Linux operating system.

Linux has fought its way to the gates of the enterprise by equipping itself with smoother installs, better usability and a wider range of applications. But as it approaches victory, is it also adopting some of Microsoft's more controversial technical practices and becoming too Windows-like?

Montreal-based Linuxant last week released DriverLoader 1.6, a compatibility-wrapper allowing Linux users to use the wireless capabilities of Intel's Centrino chip.

Signaling the next step in securing standard wireless LAN access points, the Wi-Fi Alliance on Tuesday unveiled its first certifications of products for compliance with the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) specification.

Over the last eight months major new hacker tools have been released or revealed, ending a lull in activity among hackers that followed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the enactment of legislation that enhanced law enforcement's ability to prosecute people who break code and wreak havoc on networks by exploiting software vulnerabilities, hacking consultant Ed Skoudis said Thursday.