Articles by Richard Adhikari

Frantic buyers cleaned out the shelves of two UK retailers offering a small US$35 Linux computer from the Raspberry Pi Foundation ...

Microsoft launched its Windows 8 Consumer Preview at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Wednesday The OS features a user interface similar to the one found on the Windows Phone mobile OS. It was designed to work on mobile devices, desktop PCs and all-in-one devices. Users can store settings and files in the cloud for access from any Windows ...

Yahoo is pressuring Facebook to pay licensing fees on several patents covering a variety of website functions like advertising, website personalization, social networking and messaging Yahoo has a responsibility to its shareholders, employees and other stakeholders to protect its intellectual property, Yahoo spokesperson Micheline Tang told the E-C...

What would happen if you paid taxes or protection money but didn't get protected because your protectors themselves were getting clobbered? Worse still, what if they didn't tell you they had been compromised and that you might not be safe? That situation played out recently after yet another company suffered a system breach and kept largely silent ...

WikiLeaks on Monday released the first 200 of what it says are 5 million emails stolen from global geopolitical analyst firm Stratfor The emails, written between July 2004 and late December 2011, reveal Stratfor's web of informers, its payoff structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods, WikiLeaks stated....

Users of social networks, especially women and younger members, are managing their accounts better in recent years, Pew Research has found About two-thirds of Internet users belong to social networking sites, and metrics for profile management have improved, Pew said....

Microsoft will release a beta of Visual Studio 11 on Feb. 29, the same day it releases a preview version of its Windows 8 operating system VS 11 is an integrated development environment spanning the entire software creation lifecycle from architecture to code deployment, testing and validation....

The Mozilla Foundation will begin accepting developer submissions for its own app market at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), which will be held in Barcelona next week The Mozilla Marketplace will let devs distribute and monetize their apps. It will also be the sole repository for cross-platform apps and Firefox extensions. Further, it will include ...

Undeterred by its battle to convince Congress to pass the cybersecurity legislation it proposed last May, the White House on Thursday unveiled a proposal for an online consumer privacy bill of rights This is part of a blueprint to improve consumer privacy protection in the United States....

Reports that Google is working on special glasses that will stream information to a display in one lens in real time have once again surfaced The glasses will hit retail shelves by the end of the year, The New York Times reported....

Sony officially launched its PlayStation Vita handheld gaming console in the United States on Wednesday, a week after it was made available online in a premium bundle ...

The United States National Security Agency has cautioned that the Anonymous hacker community might be able to cause a limited power outage through a cyberattack, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander has warned of the potential attack during meetings at the White House and in other private sessions, acco...

Google is tracking users of the Internet Explorer Web browser without their knowledge, Microsoft has asserted After news emerged last week that Google had bypassed the privacy settings of Apple's Safari browser, Microsoft researchers began looking into whether the search giant was also playing fast and loose with IE's settings....

Google is one of four online advertising companies that have sneaked around the privacy settings in Apple's Safari Web browser to track users of Cupertino's devices, according to research from Stanford University graduate student Jonathan Mayer All four surreptitiously submitted a Web form and placed trackable cookies in Safari, Mayer's research ha...

Canadian company Kik Interactive, creator of the Kik Messenger smartphone texting app, has announced a new product called "Clik." Clik lets smartphone users take over any screen that's connected to a browser....

Public key cryptography, a system used to secure online traffic, carries a significant flaw, a group of European and American mathematicians and cryptographers has found Public key cryptography requires the sender and the receiver of a message to each have a digital key to encrypt and decrypt it, respectively. One of these keys is kept private....

A bipartisan group of senators has proposed legislation that would give the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) increased power over critical IT infrastructure owned by the private sector The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 was introduced in the Senate Tuesday by Senator Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental...

In the wake of two security flaws reported in its Google Wallet mobile payment system last week, Google has clamped down on the system and is scrambling to come up with a fix One of the two flaws affects only rooted devices.

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is looking into setting up a base near the moon to further space exploration As it's envisioned, the base will go into a halo orbit of the Earth-moon libration point 2, known as "EM L-2," above the far side of the moon....

Samsung on Monday announced its latest tablet, the 7-inch Galaxy Tab 2. ...