Articles by Richard Adhikari

Demandware andeBay Enterprise on Monday announced an alliance to develop a fully enabled omnichannel commerce solution that will provide integrated access to Demandware's Commerce Cloud platform and eBay Enterprise's suite of back-end and fulfillment technologies and services The solution will let current and prospective clients significantly reduc...

Netflix last week announced it will crack down on members using proxies or unblockers to access titles from overseas That follows the company's announcement at CES 2016 earlier this month of a global rollout that has it offering streaming content in 190 countries....

Microsoft last week announced that within the next 18 months, it will end support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 on machines equipped with Intel's 6th generation Core processors, also known as "Skylake." As of mid-July next year, Windows 10 will be the only supported Windows platform on Skylake systems, and only the most critical security fixes wil...

Qualys on Thursday reported a flaw in theOpenSSH client that could let a hacker steal the client's private crypto keys The bug is the result of an undocumented feature called "roaming" that exists in version 5.4, released March 8, 2010, and above....

Cisco on Wednesday unveiled Cloud Consumption as a Service, an offering designed to help enterprises discover and continually monitor public cloud use -- aka "shadow IT" -- across their systems Shadow IT systems in an enterprise or organization expose it to security risks and hidden costs and may give rise to compliance issues....

Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes this week hinted at a meeting with investors that he might consider a sale of the company, according to the New York Post Apple, which reportedly is interested in purchasing Time Warner or its media assets, is keeping a close eye on the discussions....

Incorporating a polymer switching material into lithium-ion batteries could prevent their overheating due to a process known as "thermal runaway," according to Stanford researchers, whose findings were published this week in Nature. ...

Black Duck Software on Tuesday announced it has added to its Hub software container-scanning capabilities that let users map open source security flaws for applications, Linux distros, and other software in Docker and other Linux containers Adding a containerized scanner to a Docker host enables automatic identification of known open source vulnera...

Ford on Monday announced FordPass, a platform focusing on enhancing the customer experience FordPass includes a Marketplace offering mobility services; 24x7 access to FordGuides, which are personal assistants to help customers with mobility challenges; membership loyalty rewards; and FordHubs -- select stores that let customers experience Ford's la...

ProPublica last week launched what's believed to be the first major news site on the dark Web, according to Wired The site's purpose reportedly is to maximize the privacy of readers....

Facebook last week announced that its Messenger app had reached the 800 million monthly user milestone. Messenger lets users send text messages, stickers, photos, videos, voice clips, GIFs, their location and money. It's a standalone app, so one doesn't have to be a Facebook member to use it, and it's cross-platform, running on smartphones, tablet...

TheTaxpayer Advocate Service on Wednesday released its annual report to Congress. Among other things, the report warns that a five-year plan to revamp how the Internal Revenue Service operates may result in a substantial reduction in telephone and face-to-face interactions with taxpayers "Based on our internal discussions with IRS officials, TAS ha...

Samsung on Wednesday unveiled the Family Hub Refrigerator at CES, ongoing in Las Vegas through Saturday The new refrigerator sports a 21.5-inch full HD LCD screen on the upper right outside door, which doubles as a communications center....

Activist investorStarboard Value, which has dogged Yahoo over the years, on Wednesday sent a letter to the company demanding it make changes or face a proxy fight Yahoo "made the right decision" bysuspending the Alibaba spinoff, but "the continued downward spiral of Yahoo's core Search and Display advertising businesses" has been "frustrating for u...

Security researchers atSentinelOne on Wednesday revealed a vulnerability they discovered in the Blackphone The flaw -- an obscure socket -- lets an attacker take over and control communications on theBlackphone, a highly secure Android smartphoneSilent Circle developed and marketed in reaction to news of government surveillance of people's communic...

Yahoo has shut down its Yahoo Screen on-demand streaming video hub, according to news reports The hub's offerings included a National Football League game played in London, licensed clips of shows such as Saturday Night Live, and a number of original series, including Community....

China'sState Administration for Industry and Commerce on Tuesday launched the latest in a series of investigations against Microsoft for possible violations of the country's antimonopoly law Back in July 2014, about 100 SAIC officialsburst into four Microsoft offices in various parts of China and copied contracts and records, downloaded data from c...

Amazon UK recently introduced a monthly payment plan -- Pay Monthly -- for customers who purchase products it directly sells and ships The offer doesn't extend to third-party retailers' products on its site....

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 2016 resolution to challenge himself outside his work is to build a simple artificial intelligence assistant to run his home and help him do a better job juggling his business responsibilities "You can think of it kind of like Jarvis in 'Iron Man,'" he suggested....

Researchers last week revealed a zero-day flaw that lets attackers take over a Linux system by pressing the backspace key repeatedly. Pressing backspace 17 to 20 times will overwrite the highest byte of the return address of the grub_memset() function, ultimately causing a reboot by redirecting control flow to the 0x00eb53e8 address, according to ...