Articles by Richard Adhikari

Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff devoted much of his keynote speech at Dreamforce on Wednesday on lashing out at Microsoft "There are forces out there that want to stop us," Benioff told his audience at Dreamforce 2010 in San Francisco. "We're trying to transform our industry, and when you try to transform an industry, you have an old indus...

Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Heroku, a cloud application platform It will pay about US$212 million in cash, net of cash acquired....

Well, it's Wednesday at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce in San Francisco, and the excitement is palpable. A huge crowd stood in line waiting for the doors to the keynote conference room to open, which they did at about 8:15 a.m. They were supposed to open at 8 Once again, Salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff came on late. This time he appeared ...

Salesforce.com has added 50 new features to Force.com, which it will roll out on Wednesday, company chairman and CEO Marc Benioff said ...

It's about 8:20 a.m. on Tuesday in San Francisco, and Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" is playing as people file into a conference room at the Moscone Center for Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's speech here at Dreamforce 2010. ...

Since it arrived in 2004, Facebook has faced its share of unwelcome stories in the media, and it seems that security and privacy issues are a repeating theme. But when was the last time you heard about Facebook's site crashing? With more than 500 million active users worldwide, half of whom log in daily, Facebook chalks up some impressive statistic...

Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled Database.com, which it called the first enterprise database for the cloud This is "the exact same database technology" as Salesforce.com's existing database but is "being packaged and provided as a standalone product so people can build platforms on their own technologies," Ariel Kelman, a Salesforce vice presiden...

Facebook brushed itself up with a new makeover Sunday, this time focusing on the layout of members' profile screens. Users' profile pages now begin with a snapshot of information about themselves and feature recently tagged photos of the user....

For the next year, Wafaa Bilal, an assistant art professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, will record his life through still images taken at one-minute intervals by a camera surgically attached to the back of his head The photos will be sent to an art museum in Qatar which commissioned the work....

The security community was horrified when it learned about Stuxnet, the worm designed to eat into industrial control systems, or SCADA systems, that was purportedly targeted at Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor Not only was the worm highly sophisticated, but it also targeted a SCADA system from Siemens whose embedded password was well known....

BlackBerry device maker Reserach In Motion on Thursday announced that it plans to buy Swedish design house TAT, the firm that designed the T-Mobile G1 Android smartphone's user interface (UI) "The TAT team will remain as a group in their current location and become part of RIM's global software development team," David Yach, RIM's chief technology ...

The Apple iPad, rather than Amazon's Kindle, will likely benefit most from the strong demand for e-readers, according to a recent ChangeWave Research report The ChangeWave survey of more than 2,800 consumers found that 47 percent are interested in the Kindle, a 15-point drop from a similar survey in August. Meanwhile, 32 percent are interested in t...

Wikileaks, the controversial site that has caused a worldwide diplomatic furor by dumping nearly 250,000 documents covering private United States diplomatic communications, has reportedly moved to the Amazon cloud The release of the documents, collectively dubbed "Cablegate," has sparked outrage. Wikileaks' move to the cloud followed a distributed ...

Microsoft has filed a patent application for a display screen that would dynamically give users the feeling of pushing buttons when they touch it It filed patent application 20100295820 last week....

The end of Thanksgiving means the beginning of holiday shopping season, and as usual, a great deal of that shopping will be done online. But while online shopping is easy and convenient, it's also fraught with dangers Sure, it's easy to search the Web for the best price on that laptop or video gaming console you want to get, but some of the results...

Acer on Tuesday entered the tablet PC market, announcing that it will launch two Android tablets and a third running Windows 7 in early 2011 One Android tablet will have a 7-inch screen; the other will have a 10.1-inch screen. The Windows tablet will also have a 10.1-inch screen. The company has also unveiled a dual-screen tablet concept called the...

Links to malware-infested sites and other threats lurk in many Facebook users' news feeds, according to research from security vendor BitDefender. Among approximately 14,000 Facebook users who installed BitDefender's Safego security and privacy app, about one in five has malware in his or her news feed....

Scaling a website up to the size of a Twitter or a Facebook brings its own set of problems These problems aren't always like those that crop up in moderately large sites -- they're unique to these massive, hyperscale systems....

Media conglomerate News Corp. is working to create a daily news publication intended for distribution only on iPad devices, according to reports To be called "The Daily," the iNewspaper will apparently be launched next year....

China this week sentenced online activist Cheng Jiangping to one year in a labor camp for retweeting a message urging an attack on the Japanese pavilion at the recently concluded Shanghai Expo, according to Amnesty International UK News of the sentence comes as tension within China over the country's relationship with Japan grows....