Articles by Richard Adhikari

Less than three weeks after starting a limited public rollout of Google Voice, Google has put out a mobile version of the application Google Voice for Mobile is currently available only for BlackBerry and Android smartphones, and only by invitation....

Sony Ericsson is aiming to polish the image of cellphone cameras, which are typically associated with low-resolution, poorly lit, badly focused snapshots. The company's new C905a Cyber-shot camera phone, available through AT&T on Sunday, features an 8.1 megapixel camera ...

Roughly six weeks after launching its Bing search engine, Microsoft proudly announced the number of unique hits to the site grew by 8 percent in June. This shows users are trying Bing and the word is spreading, said Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft's online audience business group, who is leading the Bing charge.

With Google targeting the netbook with both its Chrome and Android operating systems, which way should developers jump? Should they pick Chrome, the browser that will soon become an OS and is likely to face strong competition from Microsoft and Apple? ...

Though consumers won't be able to buy a copy of Windows 7 until October, businesses will reportedly be able to order copies of the upcoming operating system on Sept. 1 However, the OS doesn't look like it will rake in money from the majority of businesses -- at least, not right away. In fact, more than 59 percent of businesses have no current plans...

The month of June saw a host of Web-based attacks compromising legitimate Web sites One, dubbed "Nine Ball," compromised more than 40,000 Web sites. Another attack injected a malicious script that antivirus vendor Sophos named "Troj/Iframe-CB" into large numbers of legitimate sites....

Although it already has a store for selling cellphones and other wireless communications products, Amazon.com has launched a new site targeting the same market AmazonWireless, currently in beta, only carries phones from AT&T and Verizon Wireless at the moment, but other carriers will be added later....

Despite strong opposition from business groups and a lawsuit, the Obama administration is making E-Verify, an online verification program, mandatory for businesses working with the federal government Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano on Wednesday announced support for the program, which lets businesses check employees...

Nine months after launching the Chrome browser, Google on Tuesday announced plans for a Chrome operating system. The new OS will be tailored for netbooks. Google has already lined up several OEM partners, and it plans to put the first products out by mid-2010.

Microsoft has warned Web surfers that an unused ActiveX control in Internet Explorer could let hackers launch malicious code on the user's system if it's running an older OS like Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Hackers have reportedly already begun exploiting the vulnerability, and security experts predict the attacks could get worse....

A prototype of a mobile Internet device dubbed the "Crunchpad" will reportedly make its public debut later this month The Crunchpad is a low-cost touchscreen tablet designed for Web surfing, video chat and email use.

Microsoft's recently released Bing search engine has begun adding real-time Twitter updates from celebrities to its results So far, it has indexed the Twitter accounts of a few thousand people, Bing director Whitney Burk told TechNewsWorld....

Just three years after launching in a fanfare of publicity, Joost, which provides professionally made TV on the Web, is shifting directions It will now provide white label online video platforms to media companies and distributors....

Though most major U.S. wireless carriers today tout the ubiquity of their third-generation, or 3G, wireless networks, they are simultaneously planning for the future, pushing the development of fourth-generation (4G) networks that they hope we'll all be using in a matter of years Two of the best-known 4G technologies now on the horizon are WiMax, o...

The government of China says it will put off the July 1 deadline for mandatory installation of the controversial Green Dam Youth Escort Internet filtering software on new PCs, according to state-run news agency Xinhua. Originally, the country's government had said it would require vendors to include Green Dam, a program used to block Internet porn...

For seven months, New York Times reporter David Rohde was held by Taliban kidnappers. During his captivity, both his newspaper and Wikipedia kept quiet about his plight Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales reportedly agreed to a request from The New York Times to delete all references to the kidnapping on Rohde's Wikipedia entry....

Microsoft said last week that designated PCs with premium versions of Windows Vista preinstalled will qualify for upgrades to the equivalent Windows 7 product once the final version of Redmond's next-generation operating system becomes widely available in the fall However, reports that Microsoft is restricting the number of upgrades some companies ...

Three months after unveiling its Google Voice application, Google unveiled a limited public roll-out on Thursday. The application's home site says the tool is available by invitation only. Anyone can sign up for an invitation, though they must then wait for a go-ahead from Google....

Palm continued to hemorrhage money in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2009 However, the figures it revealed Thursday represent the months just ahead of Palm's release of the Pre. Palm's latest smartphone sold 100,000 units in its first weekend on shelves, according to partner carrier Sprint....

China's bid to clamp down on online porn has sparked a flurry of activity PC makers are scrambling to install Green Dam Youth Escort, an Internet filtering software application, on every desktop and laptop sold in the country by the July 1 deadline issued by the nation's government....