Articles by Richard Adhikari

Google is investing in a backbone transmission infrastructure to deliver wind power generated off the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States to consumers in the region When built out, the Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) backbone will stretch 350 miles off the coast from New Jersey to Virginia. It will connect ocean-based wind turbines that will gen...

Canonical has released version 10.10 of the Ubuntu Linux operating system, code-named "Maverick Meerkat." This will be supported for 18 months on desktops, notebooks, netbooks and servers. It's available in 37 languages....

Microsoft has announced a global rollout of Windows Phone 7 smartphones ...

Research In Motion (RIM) on Friday reportedly came to an agreement of sorts with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), narrowly averting a ban on its services that was due to kick in next Monday Neither side will disclose details of just what transpired....

From Google, where privacy's just another word, and the idea of augmented humanity is one in which zombies whose memories are stored in Google's servers shamble around the streets, comes news that we need political reform It's shocking how the system works, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told an editor for The Atlantic at the Washington Ideas Forum. Laws ...

Logitech unveiled and demonstrated its Logitech Revue Google TV controller in New York on Wednesday ...

Motorola announced six new smartphones running the Android operating system on Tuesday at the CTIA conference and show in San Francisco ...

Physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of the University of Manchester in England have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 for what the committee described as "groundbreaking experiments" on graphene A sheet of graphene is just one atom thick, works as a superb conductor of electricity and heat, is almost transparent, but is so den...

Toshiba on Monday announced what it claims are the world's first LCD TVs that render three-dimensional (3D) images without the need for glasses ...

Microsoft has taken Windows Live Essentials 2011 out of beta, and the online suite is now available for download The suite works only on Windows 7 and Vista; it is not available on Windows XP....

HP announced on Thursday that it has appointed former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker its new president and CEO The company also named Ray Lane, managing partner at venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, as a new member of its board of directors and named him non-executive chairperson....

Planet Gliese 581g, the so-called Goldilocks planet whose discovery was announced earlier this week, may help prove Earth is not the only habitable planet in the universe ...

A study conducted jointly by Penn State University, Duke University and Intel Labs has found that some Android apps surreptitiously send user information to remote servers at ad networks and analytics firms Some of the apps send users' geographic locations to remote ad networks; others send a unique hardware identifier and, in some cases, the phone...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt sees mobile devices augmenting our human existence in the future Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt event this week, he outlined a vision in which mobile phones will autonomously conduct searches for us, and we'll never be lonely or bored because we'll always be able to get in touch with friends or access content or entertai...

With the announcement of its PlayBook device, Research In Motion this week joined the ever-growing list of companies rushing to bring out tablets of their very own The company seems to be focusing on the enterprise, with the hope that corporate users will love their PlayBooks so much that it will spur consumer demand, much like what happened with t...

AOL on Tuesday confirmed it has agreed to acquire technologyblog TechCrunch, following a crescendo of rumors surrounding thepossible deal News of the deal was released on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, a gathering being held inSan Francisco through Wednesday....

The White House is working with several federal law enforcement agencies to draft legislation that would make it possible to monitor all Internet communication services, including social networking sites, peer-to-peer messaging and encrypted email systems, according to a New York Times report "Society has changed the way we communicate, and what we...

As businesses seek new ways to cut costs, IT departments are often placed on the hot seat, and that has fueled interest in virtualization. For example, VMworld 2010, held in San Francisco recently, drew more than 17,000 attendees and saw more than 145,000 virtual machines deployed However, as businesses rush to virtualize, they too often tend to sw...

IBM researchers can now look into what's happening in individual atoms in close to real time, according to a paper published Friday in Science ...

From Russia, where winters are cold and vodka is the best-known potato product, came news earlier this month that authorities there had cracked down on an environmentalist group, Baikal Environmental Wave, on the pretext of searching for pirated Microsoft software The Putin government -- which is apparently unfamiliar with the concept of Glastnost,...