Articles by Richard Adhikari

The Android community is abuzz with speculation about Samsung's plans for its Unpacked event on Oct. 11 at the upcoming CTIA Enterprise & Applications Conference to be held in San Diego Some rumors suggest Samsung will unveil the latest item in the Android Nexus family of smartphones, while others speculate that the device will be a tablet....

The long-simmering feud between Oracle and Salesforce.com leaped off the back burner into the open Tuesday, when Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tweeted that Oracle head honcho Larry Ellison had canceled the keynote address that Benioff was scheduled to make Wednesday at OpenWorld, Oracle's annual conference "I don't know why," Benioff said....

Five years after it first launched its Zune portable digital media player, Microsoft has reportedly decided to stop making the device ...

Facebook, long a darling of cybercriminals looking to lure in unsuspecting cybersocializers, has partnered with content security vendor Websense to help protect members from links that lead to malware and malicious sites ...

Oracle announced at its OpenWorld conference on Monday that it's ramping up its move into big data analytics An Oracle big data appliance was one of the announcements made at OpenWorld 2011 by Thomas Kurian, Oracle executive VP of product development....

Facebook's Timeline feature has been a focus of controversy since it was announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the company's f8 developers' conference last month in San Francisco Privacy advocates immediately raised concerns....

In the wake of Amazon's launch of its Kindle Fire tablet on Wednesday, the company's reportedly looking at buying the Palm webOS operating system from ailing HP, according to a report in Venturebeat. Amazon spent quite a bit of time, effort and money tweaking Android for the Kindle Fire, which reportedly presold 95,000 units on its first day. So w...

The Kindle Fire made its big debut this week as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the tablet along with other new members of the Kindle family on Wednesday The Fire's been touted as a challenger to the Apple iPad, but the real threat to Apple's iconic tablet may come from the Silk browser that will run on the Fire....

Media reform group Free Press has filed a lawsuit against the FCC following the official publication and impending implementation of the commission's Net neutrality rules Network neutrality is the principle that there should be no restrictions imposed by governments or Internet service providers on consumers' access to the Internet....

Amazon unveiled its long-awaited answer to the Apple iPad on Wednesday: the Kindle Fire. However, Amazon CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos positioned the Kindle Fire as a new class of the company's Kindle e-reader rather than an iPad challenger per se ...

The problem with hitching your wagon to a shooting star, as online music service Spotify is beginning to discover, is that sometimes you can get burned Spotify is one of several online music services that have teamed up with Facebook recently and was singled out by the social networking giant at its f8 developers conference in San Francisco last we...

Oracle announced its new Sparc T4 server line on Tuesday, stating the new machines outperform IBM Power7 and HP Itanium-based systems In fact, the Sparc T4-4-based SuperCluster is 2.4 times faster than an all-IBM solution and 5.7 times faster than the HP Superdome 2, Oracle said....

The United States Department of Defense is reportedly extending its Defense Industrial Base Cyber Pilot program, first announced by deputy defense secretary William Lynn in June, to defense contractors Under this program, the DoD, together with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will share classified information and information on how to use...

Amazon's going to make an announcement on Wednesday, and the smart money is on the online retail giant unveiling its long-awaited tablet device Though Amazon has officially been quiet about whether such a tablet even exists, rumors hold that it will run Android 2.1 and cost considerably less than the iPad's US$500 starting price....

Reading a brain with a machine to get the information in it has been the stuff of sci-fi for years. Now, scientists at UC Berkeley's Gallant Lab have demonstrated that it's possible The scientists used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to reconstruct movies subjects watched by reading their brain activity....

A multinational research team says it's found neutrinos that travel faster than the speed of light. For the Opera neutrino experiment (results of which can be read here), scientists basically shot a high-intensity, high-energy beam of muon neutrinos from the CERN SPS accelerator in Geneva toward the LNGS underground laboratory at Gran Sasso, Italy...

Pity the Facebook user. The social networking giant's constantly making changes to its website, forcing its subscribers into new usage habits Some of these changes, especially when they relate to privacy, have triggered calls from privacy advocates for regulatory intervention and led users to start organizing groups criticizing the alterations....

New developments announced by Facebook at its F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco on Thursday might give the social networking king new advantages over Google as the two battle for dominance. They may also create a world of hurt for Apple Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Timeline, which lets subscribers store and display all their storie...

Right now, you can buy a car that you can unlock by just touching the door handle. No need to struggle with key fobs or keys Known by various names, including "Keyless Go" and "Smart Key," this feature is available for a cool grand or so as an option on various cars, including the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, E-Class and SL-Class; the Cadillac STS; and t...

Adobe on Wednesday announced its Flash Player 11 and Air 3 packages These have a heavy focus on games and online video across multiple devices and platforms. Those platforms include Android, Apple iOS, BlackBerry Tablet OS, Mac OS X, Windows and connected TVs....