Articles by Richard Adhikari

As the U.S. government continues to pound out proposals for getting its IT security ducks in a row, it appears it's not the only party in Washington, D.C., to have a problem with network intrusion IT systems belonging to the lobbying group the United States Chamber of Commerce were breached by hackers using servers located in China, according to Th...

This story was originally published on April 19, 2011, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. Computer software requires an enormous amount of support. That fact has enriched companies such as Oracle and SAP, which levy annual support fees of about 20 percent of the sale prices of their applications....

January's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will be the last one Microsoft will attend Announcing its decision on Wednesday, Microsoft's Frank Shaw said the company's product news milestones generally don't align with the timing of the show, which is regularly held in January....

Intel is stepping up the drumbeat around its efforts to penetrate the mobile handheld device market leading up to the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which will be held in Las Vegas in January The semiconductor giant recently sent prototype devices, known as reference designs, to the MIT Technology Review to try out....

Billionaire Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has launched a new company that will launch payloads into space from a monster aircraft ...

The United States government launched initiatives this past week to enhance cybersecurity, but these efforts may add to the confusion around the issue in federal government circles One development involves the unveiling of the Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness Act (PrECISE) by the U.S. House of Representat...

Facebook recently began rolling out its Timeline feature, which will replace the social networking site's traditional user profile Everything ever posted on a user's page will be included in Timeline....

Google has been awarded a United States patent for what, in legalese, is "transitioning a mixed-mode vehicle to autonomous mode" -- essentially a self-driving car To be more precise, U.S. Patent 8,078,349 covers a car being driven by a human that transitions to being autonomously driven....

Cybersecurity experts have been murmuring for some time that the United States' power supply is open to cyberattacks "If someone were to think about attacking another nation, the first thing they'd do is take out the power grid, since it's the hub around which other infrastructure spokes revolve," Patrick Miller, president and CEO of the National E...

Microsoft will automatically upgrade earlier versions of its Internet Explorer browser beginning in January The updates will be for PCs running Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, Redmond said....

Nokia and T-Mobile jointly announced on Wednesday the coming of the first Nokia Windows Phone smartphone in the United States The Nokia Lumia 710 will be available starting Jan. 11 at for US$50 with a two-year contract after a mail-in rebate. It will run on T-Mobile's 4G network....

Speculation regarding the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's ties with troubled cellphone software firm Carrier IQ was sparked recently by the bureau's rejection of a request made under the Freedom of Information Act. The request aimed to uncover what records and information the bureau has on CarrierIQ....

It looks as if the United States federal government is getting even more serious about cybersecurity these days First off, the White House released a road map that sets R&D priorities for cybersecurity in order to speed up efforts to secure the U.S. network infrastructure and change the government's approach to online security....

Amazon.com will release a software update for the Kindle Fire in about two weeks, company spokesperson Kinley Pearsall told TechNewsWorld "We're rolling out an over-the-air update ... that will improve performance, touch navigation, and give customers the option to choose what items display on the carousel," Pearsall elaborated....

HP announced Friday it will contribute webOS to the open source community The decision seals the fate of the operating system, which HP acquired when it purchased Palm for US$1.2 billion in April 2010....

A regional court in Mannheim, Germany, has ruled in favor of Motorola Mobility in one of several patent infringement lawsuits the company has brought against Apple in the country, patent consultant Florian Mueller reported This relates to European Patent 1010336 (B1), which covers a technology that's essential to wireless communications....

Verizon and DVD rental provider RedBox are working on a TV and movie streaming and download service they plan to unveil in May, according to a TechCrunch report The subscription-based service is apparently known as "Project Zoetrope" internally....

Ever since the Galaxy Nexus, the Samsung-built Android phone that will usher in Ice Cream Sandwich, was announced in Hong Kong in October, the device has been making the headlines. On Thursday alone, there were stories about its launch in Canada, Verizon Wireless' excluding Google Wallet from the device, the Nexus' U.S. release date, and how it's impacted by CDMA technology...

A glitch in Facebook's code briefly let people access private photographs of other members The bug was discovered by a member of an online bodybuilding forum....

Microsoft will begin accepting submissions for the Windows Store, its Windows 8 app store, when it unveils its Windows 8 public beta in late February It also invited applications from devs to submit applications using the Metro-style touch user interface for inclusion in the Windows Store....