Articles by Richard Adhikari

Oracle has asked for US$9.3 billion in damages in its multiyear lawsuit against Google over the use of Java in Android, according to a report filed last week in federal court That amount is reportedly about 10 times what it had initially asked for....

Companies have shifted their analytics efforts from consumer-focused processes to operations, according to the results of a survey released last week byCapgemini Seventy percent of 600 executives at companies in the United States, Europe and China said they focused more on operational analysis, and more than 80 percent said analytics in operations ...

NTT Data on Monday announced in a regulatory filing that it has agreed to purchase Dell's IT services business for just over US$3 billion Dell reportedly agreed to the sale to help finance its pending $67 billion purchase of EMC....

Pebble -- once viewed as the little smartwatch company that could -- last week cut its worldwide workforce by 25 percent, according to news reports That's reportedly about 40 people, but actual figures are hard to come by because Pebble is privately held....

Google, which lags far behind Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud infrastructure services space, last week released a slew of machine learning and analytics products and services The Cloud Machine Learning platform provides access through REST APIs to the technologies powering Google Now, Google Photos and voice recognition in Google Search....

Microsoft last week apologized for its Tay chatbot's bad behavior. It took the machine learning system offline, only 24 hours into its short life, after Twitter trolls got it to deny the Holocaust and elicit pro-Nazi and anti-feminist remarks "We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who w...

Google has been developing a third-party keyboard for Apple devices in an effort to increase the number of Google searches on iOS, according to a report published Tuesday in The Verge The keyboard, which is being tested internally, reportedly would incorporate a number of search options and a Swype-like feature to guess the intended word when a use...

When Appleunveiled its 9.7-inch iPad Pro earlier this week, it aimed the tablet squarely at the PC replacement market, with Phil Schiller, senior VP of worldwide marketing, describing it as the "ultimate upgrade for existing iPad users and replacement for PC users." More than 600 million PCs in use are 5 years old or more, he said....

GoDaddy on Monday launched a pay-as-you-go cloud platform along with applications powered byBitnami The tools, Cloud Servers and Cloud Applications, are designed to help small businesses -- individual devs, tech entrepreneurs and IT professionals -- quickly build, test and scale cloud solutions....

IBM last week announced its acquisition of Optevia, a Software as a Service systems integrator specializing in Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions. It will become part of IBM Global Business Services Optevia specializes in the public sector market in the UK, where it is based. Its focus is on emergency services, central and local government, health au...

Stagefright, a multimedia library in Android 2.2 and higher, has been exploited again, according to news reports published last week Zimperium last year reported a Stagefright exploit that it said exposed 95 percent of Android devices. Google incorporated a patch Zimperium created for the exploit into its code repositories....

TheFBI, the U.S.Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week issued a warning about the threat of automobile hacking Computers that control functions such as steering, braking, acceleration, lights and windshield wipers, as well as wireless technologies used in keyless entry, ignition control, tire p...

Applied machine learning techniques can identify tweeters' behaviors in real time and locate them to within 100 meters, according to a paper Rochester University computer scientists published earlier this month. The research team focused on discovering patterns of alcohol use in urban and suburban settings to better understand where and how peopl...

Google this week launched a section of its transparency report to track the progress of efforts to encrypt the Web, by both the company and third-party sites estimated to account for about 25 percent of Web traffic The report will be updated weekly with information about progress the company has made toward implementing HTTPS by default across its ...

ProtonMail, which offers encrypted email, on Thursday launched free iOS and Android mobile apps worldwide, through the iTunes App Store and Google Play, respectively They have been in beta since August, company CEO Andy Yen said....

Prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California on Tuesday announced they had reached a plea agreement with Ryan Collins, a Pennsylvania resident, over charges that he hacked Apple and Google email accounts of more than 100 people back in 2014 The allegations stemmed from the official investigation into the hacking...

Amazon has applied for a patent for selfie-based authentication for online purchases, according to a patent application published last week Using the technology, a prospective purchaser would take a selfie, and the image would be authenticated against an image database using facial recognition software....

Apple recently updated its iAd specifications to allow the display of sponsored posts directly in users' news feeds in the Apple News app for the iPhone and iPad The ads will appear in native-banner format and can link to articles in the News app. They will be set in the same default font as News articles and will have the same look, with a title, ...

IDC Health Insights on Monday outlined best practices for customer engagement strategies to help health insurance companies adopt a semiretail approach to interacting with members or patients Health insurers need an integrated customer engagement strategy enabling automated interactions, shared communications, and appropriate transaction and inform...

Google'sAlphaGo on Tuesday rocked the worlds of Go and artificial intelligence when it beat 18-time international Go champion Lee Se-dol the final round of the Google DeepMind Challenge ...