Articles by Richard Adhikari

News of two security flaws in Google Wallet, which lets smartphone owners pay for purchases through the devices, has caused some concern about the nascent mobile payment product One works on rooted devices; the other works on any smartphone with the Google Wallet capability. All it needs is for someone to get hold of the victim's smartphone for a c...

Move over, Marty McFly. Electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors on Thursday unveiled its battery-powered Model X SUV, which accelerates from zero to 60 mph in less than five seconds -- without needing a nuclear reaction or a bolt of lightning ...

Google may soon launch a paid cloud storage service called "Drive," five years after it first came up with the idea Google Drive will let consumers store documents, photographs and videos on Google's servers for sharing and easy accessibility from any Web-connected device, The Wall Street Journal reported....

The fallout from changes Google plans to make to its privacy policies and terms of service continues, with consumer advocacy group the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) suing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the issue EPIC is seeking injunctive and other relief to force the FTC to enforce a consent order it issued in October again...

An international team of researchers led by the University of York in England has demonstrated fast data recording on hard drives using heat ...

Politics, rather than good old-fashioned theft, is increasingly the motivation of malicious hackers who attack websites using DDoS techniques Arbor Networks has found that ideological hacktivism was the motivation behind most distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in 2011....

A hacker who was negotiating a ransom for stolen source code to a Symantec product released the data via peer-to-peer networks on Tuesday after negotiations fell through The code is for security vendor Symantec's pcAnywhere remote access software....

Google's apparently taking a cue from movies like "Iron Man" and "The Terminator in designing one of its upcoming products: Eyewear that displays data and information to the wearer The Internet giant's glasses are in the late prototype stage, 9to5Google claims....

The rivalry between Google and Apple in the cut-throat mobile device world took a new turn recently when mobile-app support platform company Crittercism published a study that found iOS apps crash more often than their Android counterparts Crittercism analyzed more than 214 million apps launched in November and December that use its service....

Facebook is working on a system to put ads in its mobile services, the Financial Times has reported The news comes just days after the social networking giant filed for an initial public offering (IPO), hoping to raise US$5 billion....

Microsoft is overhauling Windows Phone 8, which is still in development, to make it more competitive with market leaders iOS and Android, according to leaked information reported in PocketNow The mobile OS will add support for multicore processors, up to four new screen resolutions, and removable microSD card storage....

The hacker community Anonymous on Friday landed another blow in its war with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) It posted an internal memo from the law enforcement agency about an upcoming international call to discuss hackers. Anonymous also put up a recording of the call itself on YouTube....

Vizio has unveiled a 58-inch 3D widescreen HDTV with a 21:9 aspect ratio -- far more than the standard 16:9 ratio HDTVs use. Users can set the TV to upscale 16:9 content to fill the screen ...

The recently announced Spark tablet might prove to be the first Linux-running open source tablet fully capable of being modded by users ...

Superbowl Sunday, the biggest, flashiest U.S. sports event of the year, is also the country's biggest advertising event of the year, carrying some of the cleverest ads on TV This year, Superbowl Sunday may also mark a watershed in advertising, with advertisers reaching out beyond TV to go into digital media in a big way....

Someday, people whose ability to speak has been damaged by illness or injury may be able to vocalize anyway with the help of technology. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have made strides toward translating the words a person thinks into real speech The researchers used 15 patients undergoing neurosurgery as subjects....

Already battered, flailing and in the throes of a corporate shakeup, RIM is now being savaged by critics over an infographic it created to depict the result of a Twitter campaign it launched over New Year's Eve ...

The European Union has begun looking into whether Samsung Electronics has engaged in antitrust behavior Samsung years ago pledged to license its patents that are essential for the implementation of European mobile telephony standards on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) terms. However "it appears that Samsung has sought injunctive rel...

Antivirus vendor Symantec announced recently that up to 5 million Android devices may have been infected with a particular type of malware Multiple publishers were pushing out apps -- some of which were found in the official Android Market -- containing malware known as "Counterclank," according to the AV company....

Fifteen leading email service providers and tech companies have announced a joint effort to fight phishers Google, Facebook, PayPal, Yahoo and Agari are among the companies behind the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) spec....