Articles by Richard Adhikari

Saying the Android platform is fast is an understatement. Within one short year, it's erupted from claiming a mere sliver of market share to taking second spot worldwide for smartphone sales by operating system, according to Gartner's figures Android had 25.5 percent of the worldwide smartphone market share in the third quarter of this year, Gartne...

Verizon is reportedly toying with a model for tiered pricing for wireless customers who use its upcoming fourth-generation LTE cellular network, considering ways to charge customers differently for different data speeds as well as different monthly data limits Company CFO Fran Shammo told The Wall Street Journal that customers might either get slow...

The threat of terrorism weighed heavily on United States senators holding an oversight hearing on the Transportation Security Administration Wednesday The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation was looking into the TSA's use of aggressive screening procedures for air travelers, including the use of thorough pat-downs and scan...

China Telecom has reportedly denied accusations by a U.S. government organization that it was behind the rerouting of 15 percent of the world's Web traffic to servers in China for a short period earlier this year The Chinese state-owned carrier was pinpointed by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission as being involved in the inciden...

What can users expect from Facebook's new Messages system, which will be able to deal with messages from and different types of communication media? Will it really take in messages from different types of messaging systems -- email, SMS, text, etc. -- and output responses to those systems?...

Facebook on Monday announced what CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as the next generation of messaging It spans across a user's messaging systems, offering retention of a user's conversation history and a social inbox....

Enterprises' need for storage is increasing exponentially as businesses use more and more rich media, such as audio and video, both within their networks and on customer-facing websites That demand is going to continue growing, driven both by customer demand and demand from new hires who grew up with the Internet and want the same ease of use and f...

Next Issue Media, a joint venture among five leading publishers, will open its digital storefront next year on Android tablets, according to an AllThingsD report Android is a very important platform for tablets and smartphones, Next Issue Media CEO Morgan Guenther told the publication. The consortium also intends to publish on the Apple platform, b...

The Galaxy Tab Android tablet has landed. The greatly anticipated Samsung device represents what might be the greatest challenge yet to the Apple iPad's months-long dominance in the newly redefined tablet market ...

The Internet is likely to run out of IPv4 address spaces by early nextyear, Richard Jimmerson, CIO of ARIN, the American Registry forInternet Numbers, warned his audience during a speech Wednesday at LISA, the 24thLarge Installation System Administration Conference, being held in SanJose, Calif., through Friday "By the end of the first quarter next...

Tony Cass, the leader of the European Organization forNuclear Research's (CERN's) database services group, outlined someof the challenges the organization's computer system faces during hiskeynote speech Wednesday at LISA, the 24th Large Installation SystemAdministration Conference, being held in San Jose, Calif., through Friday Smashing beams of p...

RockMelt has unveiled the public beta of its new Web browser featuring built-in social network sharing ...

Reports surfaced recently that SAP shelled out US$120 million to Oracle agreeing not to seek punitive damages in the latter's lawsuit against the company. However, SAP spokesperson Saswato Das ducked questions on this topic....

Microsoft's Kinect game device has been flying off retailers' shelves since its release Thursday, according to reports. So far, some users have been impressed with the video game device's ability to track a player's body movement, while others have discovered problems with it ...

Google on Wednesday released mod_pagespeed, a module for the Apache HTTP Server that will automatically perform various website speed optimization tasks This includes 15 or so on-the-fly optimizations....

Cisco on Wednesday announced two products and a rich media capture platform to extend its contact center capabilities One product is SocialMiner, software that lets companies search the Web for relevant material. The other product is Cisco Finesse, a Web 2.0 collaboration desktop for customer care representatives....

SCVNGR, a Boston-based company that offers a mobile real-world game ofthe same name, announced on Tuesday that it's going global SCVNGR's a social game based on geo-location that lets players link upwith friends on Facebook and Twitter....

It was pretty much all about the cloud at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, held last week at its Redmond, Wash., corporate campus CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives spoke about how the software giant's latest developments span the PC, the mobile phone and the cloud....

Samsung is reported to be working on the Google Nexus Two smartphone that will run Gingerbread, the latest version of the Android operating system The buzz is that Samsung will unveil the phone at a press conference it called for Nov.8....

China has unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, at a high-performance computing conference in Beijing ...