Articles by Richard Adhikari

Hewlett Packard Enterprise last week announced the public availability of its HPE Haven OnDemand Machine Learning as a Service The Microsoft Azure cloud-based platform provides more than 60 APIs and services that deliver deep learning analytics on a variety of data, including text, audio, images, social Web and video....

Google last week announced a developer preview of Android N, the forthcoming release of its mobile operating system The release came early; it was widely expected to be unveiled in May at Google I/O 2016, the Google developers conference....

Apple on Thursday sent out media invitations to a March 21 event at its Cupertino, California, headquarters, with the cryptic teaser, "Let us loop you in." Speculation is rife that the company will unveil a new 4-inch iPhone called the "iPhone SE." A 9.7-inch iPad Air also is expected, as well as some new Apple Watch bands and minor hardware and so...

LiveOps Cloud on Tuesday unveiled its enterprise-level CxEngage Contact Center as a Service, or CCaaS, platform The omnichannel open framework, which was built from the ground up, integrates with standard APIs. It essentially links applications such as CRM, workforce management and business intelligence to help agents make better customer service d...

The buzz surrounding the FBI's lawsuit to compel Apple to help it unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists increased on Tuesday, when NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden dismissed the agency's stance as "bullsh*t." He made the remark during a video conversation with Malkia Cyril, executive director of the Center for Media Justice...

Reviews of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge came out Tuesday, and they were overwhelmingly positive "Head of the Smartphone Class," concluded Geoffrey Fowler in The Wall Street Journal....

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's efforts to compel Apple to unlock an iPhone used by one of the slain San Bernardino terrorists could threaten national security, charged Craig Federighi, Apple's SVP of engineering, in an op-ed piece published Monday in The Washington Post Terrorists and criminals could launch attacks on vital inf...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied without comment Apple's petition for a review of a lower court ruling that it engaged in price-fixing of e-books The company now must comply with a US$450 millionsettlement it reached with 33 states and territories and a private class of e-book purchasers that, together with the U.S. Department of Justice, su...

Time on Thursday announced an agreement to acquire the assets ofViant Technology The deal will let Time combine its premium content, subscriber data and ad inventory with Viant's first-party data and targeting technology to bring value to clients of both platforms, Time said....

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday went into damage-control mode following a tweet from board member Marc Andreessen about India and colonialism Andreessen was reacting to the Indian telecom regulator'sban on Facebook's Free Basics service....

Marketers this year will ramp up their efforts at personalization, getting a 360-degree view of customers and improving the customer experience, and they will leverage multiple strategies, tools and solutions to do so, a study released Tuesday by theCMO Council found Deploying digital analytics and life cycle management tools will take the lead, fo...

The artificial intelligence component of Google's Level 4 autonomous cars can be considered the driver, whether or not the cars are occupied by humans, the U.S.National Highway Transportation Safety Administration said in a letter released Tuesday Level 4 full self-driving automation vehicles perform all safety-critical driving functions and monito...

United States Reps. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, last week introduced legislation to prevent states from passing laws banning the sale of smartphones with encryption capabilities The "ENCRYPT Act of 2016," as the bill is known, provides that a state or political subdivision of a state may not mandate or request that a manufac...

CNIL, France's data protection authority, on Monday formally gave Facebook three months notice to comply with the French Data Protection Act A working group comprised of regulators from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and the German province of Hamburg recommended the action....

India'sTelecom Regulatory Authority on Monday ruled in favor of Net neutrality, effectively banning Facebook's Free Basics Internet access app "This is a very important decision for the future of the Internet in India," said Barbara van Schewick, director of Stanford Law School'sCenter for Internet and Society, whosepaper the TRA cited in its rulin...

Twitter plans to introduce an algorithmic timeline, possibly this week, Buzzfeed News reported last week The algorithm reportedly would organize tweets based on relevancy....

Keybase last week announced the alpha release of the Keybase app for the iPhone with a cryptographically secure file mount Users can write data in an automatically created folder in this format: /keybase/public/username. Files written in the folder are signed automatically and appear as plain text files on computers....

Canonical on Thursday launched the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet, in partnership withBQ. The tablet is the first fully converged Ubuntu device, the company said It will ship with the latest Ubuntu software and is the first tablet with the Ubuntu operating system, Canonical said....

Vaio on Wednesday announced Phone Biz, a Windows 10 mobile phone The device doesn't have a SIM, leaving users free to select their own carriers....

Uber on Tuesday unveiled a new logo, the culmination of a two-year effort to develop a rebranding strategy. The new logo will be depicted in the Uber app in colors localized to each of the 65 countries where the company has a presence For example, it's pink in Mexico, red in India, gold in China and oak in Ireland....