Articles by Richard Adhikari

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison insisted on Wednesday that recently appointed HP CEO Leo Apotheker knew of the theft of Oracle's software while he was CEO of SAP Ellison also dismissed HP chairman Ray Lane's statement that Apotheker didn't know anything about the theft as an "absurd lie."

Part One of this series discussed the push toward IPv6 The drive to IPv6, the newer Internet communications protocol, appears to be driven by major networking vendors. Their contention is that we're running out of IPv4 network addresses....

The Obama administration has recently turned up the heat on moving to IPv6, the next version of the Internet protocol after the one currently in use, IPv4. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra issued a memo Sept. 28 instructing CIOs of executive departments and agencies in the federal government to take several actions, including enabling the use of native IPv6, by the end of 2012...

Freelance software developer Eric Butler has released Firesheep, a plug-in to the Firefox Web browser that lets anyone capture cookies from an open WiFi network and possibly steal their owners' identities Firesheep is free and open source program available for the Mac OS X and Windows platforms. Butler is working on a Linux version....

A huge gingerbread man has been put up on the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif., suggesting that Gingerbread, the next release of Android, may be released soon. ...

The Wi-Fi Alliance, a consortium of companies making WiFi products, has unveiled a new protocol, Wi-Fi Direct This lets WiFi products certified by the Alliance connect directly with each other, without the need for a wireless access point or router....

Barnes & Noble may soon announce a full-color version of its Nook e-reader, acording to a Cnet report The bookseller is likely to unveil the device at an event it will hold Oct. 26....

HP on Friday launched the HP Slate 500, a tablet PC aimed at the enterprise ...

Since the latter days of the 20th Century, business and political leaders have moved between each others' fields with increasing ease. Vice President Dick Cheney was one; Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is another Right now, two former leaders of high-tech companies are running for office: former HP CEO Carly Fiorina and former eBay CEO Meg Whitma...

The first reviews of Windows Phone 7 smartphones -- the Samsung Focus and the HTC HD7 -- are in, and they range from lukewarm at the low end (nice, but not enough pizzazz) to acceptable (much improved but not enough features) Will smartphone buyers be influenced by the reviews? Or do they generally decide what they want first, then go get it? Will...

Biometric security -- which employs systems that read people's fingerprints or compare their voiceprint or retina scans to information in data banks in order to authenticate them -- is being heavily used in some of the United States' most critical installations For example, the United States Department of Defense is focusing strongly on biometric s...

HP on Tuesday announced the Palm Pre 2 and webOS 2.0, the next version of the mobile operating system that debuted with the original Palm Pre in 2009 ...

Belgian open source application vendor OpenERP has set up its first overseas business office in San Jose, Calif. Traditionally, the company has worked with reseller partners in the United States and 54 other countries worldwide After four years, though, OpenERP has begun an aggressive expansion....

Google has added new cloud capabilities to its rack-mounted Google Search Appliance As of Monday, a new feature, Cloud Connect, lets users of Google Search Appliance (GSA) 6.8 search content both within an enterprise's firewalls as well as content from Twitter, blogs and industry websites through Google Site Search....

Computer programmer and author John Graham-Cumming is trying to raise at least Pounds 500,000 (US$800,000) to build a working version of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine ...

A researcher in a robotics lab in Slovenia has reportedly been using humans as punching bags to find out the limits on how hard and fast a robot can move if it collides with people Borut Povse persuaded six male colleagues to let a modified production-line robot hit their arms up to 18 times with different amounts of force using either a sharp or b...

Facebook and Bing have teamed up in a move that could bring a touch more sociability to online search Facebook users will see Web pages their friends like popping up when they launch a Bing search while logged into the social networking site. Further, when Facebook users search for their friends on Bing, people with whom they have Facebook friends ...

Intel plans to pull out all the stops to conquer the tablet PC market, CEO Paul Otellini announced this week Intel will use all of the assets at its disposal to win this segment, he said. Intel will offer tablets running Meego, the operating system that's a melding of its and Nokia's technologies. It will also pursue Android and Microsoft Windows, ...

Facebook has unveiled new measures to keep members secure when they log into its site One is a temporary password; another is letting people sign out of Facebook remotely. Finally, it will also now regularly prompt members to update their security information....

Competition in the keenly contested smartphone market is driving massive change in user interfaces (UIs). Mice and keyboards are so yesterday; touch, multitouch and gestures form the core of UIs today Now, we have Google TV with apps on the TV set. The media of television, streaming video and the Internet are becoming more closely intertwined....