Articles by Richard Adhikari

Researchers at IBM's Almaden Labs have created a 12-atom magnetic memory bit, in a continuation of work on atomic-level memory storage first posited in 1959 by American physicist Richard Feynman ...

After a difficult year spent at the lower depths of the global smartphone market, Microsoft's Windows Phone devices roared out of oblivion at CES 2012 Analysts and the media outlets are raving about the Nokia Lumia 900 and the HTC Titan II, which are displayed at the event....

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has written to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to look into new features in Google's search engine "We've asked the FTC, as part of its investigation for possible antitrust violations, whether changes in Google search constitute an antitrust violation and ... violate the consent order Google recen...

A few short months after killing off its Streak 5 and Streak 7 tablets, Dell is apparently discussing plans to make a comeback to the tablet market later this year The company's Chief Commercial Officer Steve Felice told Reuters that Dell has been lying low and learning from competitors' mistakes....

Sony demoed a 55-inch prototype model of a next-generation television that it calls a "crystal LED display" at CES on Tuesday It's claimed to be the first 55-inch full HD self-emitting display using LEDs as the light source....

Google has expanded its search engine to include personal results, profiles and Google+ pages related to a given search The new search capability, called "Search Plus Your World," was announced Tuesday....

With the apparent resurgence of hacker community Anonymous, as well as concerns that cybercriminals may have recently penetrated the networks of a number of small utilities, two United States federal government initiatives to improve cybersecurity were launched this past week As of Jan. 6, companies awarded contracts and orders by the U.S. General ...

Vizio will roll out five new PCs at CES 2012. Together with the company's HDTVs, these will constitute an attack on the multiscreen home entertainment market, which Apple dominates at the high end Vizio's plans are "part of the battle for the living room, where you've got all your devices able to share information and talk to each other, making the...

Source code for two security applications from Symantec has been stolen and posted on the Web. The hackers claiming responsibility, who call themselves the "Lords of Dharmaraja," say they obtained code for the Norton Antivirus application However, it appears they actually obtained code for two enterprise products, Symantec End Point 11 (SEP 11) and...

It's well-known that iPhone owners use lots of cellular bandwidth, but it seems that the iPhone 4S has taken bandwidth consumption to new heights Owners of the iPhone 4S use twice as much data as iPhone 4 users and nearly three times as much data as iPhone 3G users, according to an Arieso report....

Researchers at Cornell University's School of Applied and Engineering Physics have demonstrated a way to cloak, or hide, an event in time The phenomenon is similar to what happens when you remove frames from a film by cutting and splicing, except that instead of losing data about an event, you hide that information....

A recent report has once again stirred up rumors that Google is planning a tablet of its very own, a product line that could be akin to the company's series of Nexus Android smartphones The tablet could debut sometime in March or April of this year, according to a Digitimes report, and it will be priced to compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire, which r...

Korean electronics giant LG will unveil the world's largest OLED TV, with a 55-inch screen, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week in Las Vegas This will offer natural, accurate colors using technology developed by Kodak....

Cisco has reportedly stopped selling its Umi home videoconferencing system The decision marks the end of a short life for the product, which was launched just over a year ago in October 2010....

Ultrabooks will make a strong showing at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), to be held in Las Vegas Jan. 10-13, with Intel and several computer vendor partners demoing products "The new category is already gaining momentum, with many Ultrabooks powered by second-generation Intel Core processors in the market today, and more than 60 design...

The Anonymous hacker collective has run riot this holiday season, and security experts predict more pain from cybercriminals at large for the coming year Anonymous also announced earlier that it had cracked the systems of gear vendor SpecialForces.com on Tuesday....

LG Electronics will show off an 84-inch 3D Ultra Definition (UD) TV at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January The world's largest 3D TV will offer 8 million pixels at 3840 x 2160 screen resolution -- four times that of existing full HDTV screens, LG asserted....

Intel announced its third-generation Atom mobile processor-based platform, code-named "Cedar Trail," on Wednesday It consists of two dual-core mobile processors, the N2600 and N2800, and two others, the D2500 and D2700, that target entry-level desktop and other solutions....

A road map for the future development of the Windows Phone OS has apparently been leaked. The new information comes in the wake of a recent flurry of criticism over Windows Phone's performance in the smartphone market The road map, published by the VMPowerUser blog, is purportedly accurate as of October 2011....

Hackers claiming to belong to the Anonymous hacking community broke into the servers of private think tank Stratfor over the holiday weekend They stole thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information, and also claim to have stolen the company's list of confidential clients. This includes organizations such as the United States Air F...