Tag archive: Prism

The U.S. International Trade Commission has said it will investigate claims by Prism Technologies that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion violates a Prism patent (6,516,416) related to multi-factor authentication over untrusted, public networks. If the complaint is upheld, it could potentially lead to BlackBerry devices being pulled from the U.S. market, although few industry watchers expect the situation would get that far out of hand.

With the gradual migration of ordinary desktop applications to Web 2.0 platforms, some users may find themselves missing the old convenience of start menu shortcuts, and irritated at the prospect of running everything from a browser Window. The folks at Mozilla’s development arm, Mozilla Labs, realized the problem and have issued their own experimental attempt at a remedy: Mozilla Prism. Prism is a free application that essentially… Read More